Literatura română de ceremonial, o literatură pentru principi by Emanuela Timotin

“…The texts were almost contemporary, since they are all written in the second half of the 18th century, but they were written in different milieus (Moldavia, Wallachia and Milan), on the basis of distinct sources: one is inspired by the Byzantine literature, one by German texts, and one by Romanian and Turkish documents. …”
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„Cartea românească de învăţătură” a mitropolitului Varlaam al Moldovei. Izvoarele şi originalitatea by Dan Zamfirescu

“…What is its value in the history of Post-Byzantine Orthodox preaching and of Romanian literature and theology?…”
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The landscape of the monastic endeavour: The choices of St Sava of Serbia by Popović Danica

“…Sava’s choices were based on his masterful knowledge of Byzantine eremitic tradition and his own substantial monastic experience. …”
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Palaiologan renaissance painting in the Latin-occupied Aegean. Three icons from Hospitaller Leros by Kefala Konstantia

“…Τhis paper examines three Byzantine icons from the iconostasis of the church of the Panagia tou Kastrou on Leros/Dodecanese, initially dated to the sixteenth century and attributed to a Cretan workshop. …”
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The Studenica composition of the mission of the apostles. A contribution to the research of iconography by Babić Valentina

“…The paper demonstrates the peculiarities of the Studenica composition compared to Italian Romanesque compositions of the Mission of the Apostles and Western Christian iconography in general, influenced by Byzantine art. Тhe so-called Roman type of St. Peter and the “Latin” variation of the sign of blessing in the Church, represented in the Mission of the Apostles at the Studenica Monastery, have been analyzed to demonstrate that they are not exclusively part of Western iconography.…”
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Influenţe ale literaturii patristice în a doua Predoslovie a „Psaltirii” de la Alba Iulia (1651) by Florentina Nicolae

“…In the Second Introduction (Predoslovie), the Archbishop gives an erudit presentation of the origin, authorship, aims, structure, main ideas of the Book of Psalms, using – with or without specific nomination – the works of Basil the Great, Jerome, Augustine and of the less known Byzantine writer Euthimius Zigabenus. The Western manner of quotation and paraphrase is obvious, having as a result a very modern and scientific version of the Book of Psalms.…”
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Frontalne i całopostaciowe wizerunki Chrystusa na ikonach bizantyńskich i ruskich. Schemat ikonograficzny by Olga Cyrek

“…It is important that the Byzantine-Ruthenian icons are common features such as static characters, serious and dignified face. …”
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Le corps dans l’anthropologie chrétienne du Moyen Âge oriental by Gilbert Dagron (†)

“…La présente étude, fondée sur les manuels d’hérésiologie, les recueils de Questions et réponses et les récits hagiographiques, montre que dans l’anthropologie byzantine le corps est constitutif de la personne. …”
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Initial Encounters: Seeking traces of ancient trade connections between West Africa and the wider world by Sonja Magnavita

“…Although the number of imported items known to have been brought into West Africa during late Roman and Byzantine times just started growing, the mechanisms of their diffusion are still far from being understood. …”
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Unité chrétienne menacée et justification des actions des croisés : représentation et fonction des hérésies dans la Grant estoria de Ultramar by Julia Roumier

“…Curiosity for this text is usually focused on the Song of Antioquia and the mythical origins of the lineage of Godefroy de Bouillon but, if the epic dimension of the Grant estoria de Ultramar stages violent confrontations between Christians and Muslims, it also presents more complex exchange situations with the Byzantine Greeks, Eastern Christians, Nestorians, and Armenians, as in the case of the reintegration of the Maronite heretics... …”
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Dābiq et la frontière du Dār al-Islām by Eva Collet

“…./750-830), the sources consistently convey the fear of a Byzantine reconquest of Dābiq and its surroundings, through the creation of an eschatological literature. …”
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« LE PAYSAGE SONORE » DE MURRAY R. SCHAFER by Luana STAN

“…Wouldn’t it be extraordinary to be able to listen to the sounds surrounding St Sophia’s Church during Byzantine times or ... the forest noises from when dinosaurs roamed the Earth? …”
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Darknesses over the Bistrica. On some unacceptable interpretations of the history of Prizren and its monuments by Vojvodić Dragan, Pirivatrić Srđan

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A Sketch on the Balkans as a “Centre of Peripheries” by Raymond Detrez

“…The most prominent among these include the ancient world, the Roman Empire, the Byzantine commonwealth, the Ottoman Empire, modern Europe, the Soviet bloc, and the European Union. …”
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Energy Efficient Distributed Fault Identification Algorithm in Wireless Sensor Networks by Meenakshi Panda, P. M. Khilar

“…The algorithm is distributed, self-detectable, and can detect the most common byzantine faults such as stuck at zero, stuck at one, and random data. …”
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Entering the corridors of power: state and church in the reception history of Revelation by Pieter G. R. de Villiers

“…Second, it will show how Oecumenius, using the language of the Byzantine Empire, rereads the position of the Jews in the original text in order to present the church as the stable, trustworthy partner of the Empire. …”
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The oldest scene of the Entrance of the Virgin Mary into the Temple? A new identification of wall paintings from the Faras Cathedral by Magdalena Łaptaś

“…This identification, based on a comparison of these scenes with Cappadocian and Byzantine masterpieces, is further reinforced by the placement of the paintings within the iconographic program of the Faras Cathedral.…”
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El Greco's Italian paintings (1560-76) based on Bible texts by Estelle Alma Maré

“…At the age of nineteen El Greco, who was born in Crete in 1541 and was initially an icon painter in the Byzantine tradition, went to Venice. Through study and experiment, and by following the examples of other artists who had achieved artistic mastery and was of proven Catholic orthodoxy, he educated himself as an artist in the Western manner. …”
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Christian Iconography Adorning Corinthian Capitals in Syria by Ahmad Dawa

“… This article explores the additional decorative elements incorporated by Christians onto Corinthian capitals found in various museums in the Syrian Arab Republic, dating back to the Byzantine era (4th–7th centuries). It outlines the symbolic significance of these elements, tracing their historical and religious contexts. …”
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Des allégories des Saisons sur les tissus coptes by Amandine Mérat

“…The identification of figures on Egyptian textiles of the Byzantine period (sixth-seventh centuries AD) is still a delicate and uncertain exercise due to the rarity of examples clearly named by inscriptions in Coptic or Greek. …”
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