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Dedicatory inscriptions on Middle Byzantine reliquaries have been analyzed for their documentary information, including prosopography, provenance, and date. Relying solely on this data limits our understanding of these objects. The... more
Roman emperors came to power through a hybrid dynastic/elective selection system that was never formally codified. This lack of codification has caused problems for modern scholars looking to identify and categorize those who were... more
This volume presents the proceedings of the third workshop of the international thematic network 'Impact of Empire', which concentrates on the history of the Roman Empire, c. 200 B.C.-A.D. 476, and, under the chairmanship of Lukas de... more
Discussions of Byzantine eunuchs have generally relied on accounts that speak directly of a man's eunuch status. This has meant that scholars have constructed discussions of eunuchs from a destabilizing mix of highly critical and... more
vamz / 3. serija / liv (2o21) 99 a gold coin of the roman emperor anthemius (467-472 ad) from crnomelj alenka miškec: a gold coin of the roman emperor anthemius (467-472 ad) from črnomelj Circumstances of discovery Archaeological... more
to deliver a paper on the British selection of presents for the Jiaqing emperor. While in London, I stayed with my friends Elizabeth and Allan Kelly, and I cannot thank them enough for their wonderful hospitality and stimulating company.... more
Dimiter Angelov, The Byzantine Hellene: The Life of Emperor Theodore Laskaris and Byzantium in the Thirteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2019. 460 pp. – ISBN: 978-1-108-48071-0 (€40,30)
This paper explores Philo’s Legatio ad Gaium, which describes the embassy of Jewish Alexandrians to Caligula in A. D. 40. In the Legatio, Philo engages critically with the idea of the Roman emperorship in his descriptions of Augustus,... more
In this paper, the author focuses on one of the earliest groups of Sinologists, the Jesuit Figurists, particularly discussing how they translated mystical creatures and elements in Chinese classics, such as the dragon, dog, and Chinese... more
In contemporary political discourse, the "clash of civilizations" rhetoric often undergirds philosophical analyses of "democracy" both at home and abroad. This is nowhere better articulated than in Jacques... more
Professor in Postgraduate Program of National School of Visual Arts in National Autonomous University of Mexico. Pioneer in Mexico using digital resources in arts and design. First woman director of National School of Visual Arts at UNAM... more
北京迁都以后,明代南京的地位发生了哪些的变化呢?本文为了更加具体的阐明 明代的两京制下的南京的机能和历史的意义,侧重关注正德帝在北京和南京之间进 行的南巡。 正德帝的南巡是明代两京制实行70余年后,唯一一次明代皇帝在两京间的巡幸。 与国家安保相关,重视传统西北地区大部分臣僚们和固执考虑新的形成威胁的东南 地区的皇帝之间出现了巨大的冲突。对上行和下行的路程中,皇帝的打猎、钓鱼, 以及爱妾的同行,搜罗女性等等失德和过分自由放荡的游乐行为,以往的评价中通... more
This article discusses the sacredness of Roman emperors during the late Roman Empire, in the fourth and fifth centuries C.E. as the Empire was gradually Christianized. I shall argue that the imperial ideology with the sacred emperor,... more
The stereotype is utterly entrenched: Emperor Huizong (r. 1100-1125) devoted himself to painting birds and flowers and to producing calligraphy in his distinctive calligraphic style in the years that the Jurchen peoples pressed down on... more
The bishops, as heirs of legal and political values of anti-quity, from a certain point onwards, recounted the salient events of the Empire and in particular focused on the death of Emperors. These in-terpreted this fact and so, favored... more