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Interview: Annalinden Weller
The two-year postdoc in Text and Narrative in Byzantium at Uppsala University is over, and Annalinden Weller is leaving Sweden after two productive years that were concluded with a conference on Reception Histories of the Future in August 2017. As … Continue reading
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Tagged Armenia, Constantine IX Monomachos, literature, narrative, Petros I Getadarj, science fiction, space
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Þrír Vegir í Miklagarð (part three)
Wulf: A Displaced Anglo-Saxon, c. 1090 It had been the better part of a lifetime since the Conquest, and Wulf was resolved to stay and settle in his adoptive city. His loyalty to his former liege lords had been remote … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexios I Komnenos, Constantinople, Danes, English, Greek, Harold Godwinson, Latin, Orthodoxy, Vikings, William the Conqueror
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Þrír Vegir í Miklagarð (part two)
Bolli: An Opportunistic Icelander, c. 1040 Bolli’s ax sat heavily on his shoulders, but he did not notice the weight. The emperor’s life-guard was back from Bulgar-fighting in Prilep and he was thinking about the new red cloak he would … Continue reading
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Tagged Bulgars, clothing, coins, furs, gold, Harald Hardrada, Miklagård, Normans, purple, runes, Vikings, war, Yaroslav of Kiev
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Þrír Vegir í Miklagarð (part one)
Halfdan: A Swedish Varangian via Kievan Rus, c. 990 Halfdan was not the first Halfdan to come to Miklagard. This he discovered shortly after his arrival from Kiev with Prince Vladimir’s other Rus. On especially important days, the life-guard accompanied … Continue reading
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Tagged Constantinople, food, Greek, Hagia Sophia, inscriptions, Kiev, Miklagård, Rus, Vikings, Vladimir the Great
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Summer Sequel: Three Roads to Miklagård
Brigid Ehrmantraut from Princeton University has been generous to offer her recent essay on Scandinavian mercenaries in Constantinople as a reading feuilleton for the Nordic Byzantine Network. Before we do so, we are happy to have Brigid’s attention for a few … Continue reading
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Tagged Anna Comnena, Constantinople, literature, Miklagård, Vikings
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Byzantium, alt-right and hooliganism
As our readers will know, the Nordic Byzantine Network is not only preoccupied with the study of Byzantium as such, but also with the metahistory of its past and contemporary use. Such was, for instance, the topic of a two-day … Continue reading
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Tagged Constantinople, graffiti, Greece, Hagia Sophia, hooligans, Islam, Istanbul, mosque, Orthodoxy, politics, reception, sport, Trikala, Turkey
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Om Istanbuls bysantinska monument
På vår gamla hemsida fördes vid något tillfälle frågan på tal om huruvida freskerna i Chorakyrkan (Kariye Camii) i Istanbul lider under tilltagande fuktskador. Fotografier som tagits under tre besök, 2004, 2007 och 2011 visade att den blå färgen alltmer bleknat bakom vad … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, art, Blachernai palace, Chora church, conservation, Istanbul, Tekfur Saray
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