A selection of writings on the relations between the Byzantines and the ‘Abbasids.
By Maria Vaiou
Warfare
Frontier raids
The capture of Melitene in 750-1. „No. 284“ weiterlesen
No. 279
Byzantine churches or monasteries of Constantinople and its suburbs built/rebuilt by high officials, patriarchs and other personalities
(4th‒5th centuries)
By Maria Vaiou
St. Paul the Confessor
First mentioned as epi Paulon by the fifth century church historian Socrates. It was originally built by Paul’s, a former bishop of the city who was exiled after Constantius, successor and rival bishop Macedonius (342-60).[1] The tanslation of Paul’s relics to Constantinople took place by the emperor Theodosius I (379–95). Mentioned by the Notitia to have been in the VII Region. The Goths after the revolt of their chief Gainas (d. before 401) sought asylum there but the church was set on fire and were burnt alive. It was rebuilt shortly after. The church existed until the thirteenth century. The grave of the „No. 279“ weiterlesen
No. 277
Three Byzantine religious foundations turned into mosques: a photographic, historical and bibliographical context The church of St. Theodosia or monastery of Christ
by Maria Vaiou „No. 277“ weiterlesen
No. 274
Byzantium and the pre-Islamic Arabs:
a selection of religious, hagiographical and ecclesiastical sources
by Maria Vaiou
I dedicate this work to my father, Apostolos Vaiou, who died last year.
Hagiographies, martyrologies (Byzantine, Latin, Coptic, Syriac)
Acts of martyrs=G. Hoffmann, Auszüge aus den syrischen Akten persischer Märtyrer übersetzt und durch Untersuchungen zur historischen Topographie erläutert (Leipzig, 1880). „No. 274“ weiterlesen
No. 272
A selected bibliography on Arab-Byzantine, Byzantine and Islamic coinage
By Maria Vaiou
- ‘Adawi, ‘Jerusalem, Umm Tuba’, ESI 126 (2014).
- V. Akopyan, F. Mosanef, ‘On the earliest coins struck at Ardabīl in the Islamic period’, JONS 203 (Spring 2010), 6-8.
- Album, ‘Seventh century–Part I: Islamic conquerors adapted local Byzantine coinage’, The Celator 2.4 (April 1988), pp. I, VI, XV, XVII; 2, no. 7 (July 1988).
_____, Checklist of Islamic coins, 3rd ed. (Santa Rosa, 2011). „No. 272“ weiterlesen
No. 270
Byzantium and the pre-Islamic Arabs:
a preliminary bibliography
By Maria Vaiou
I.‘Abbās, Ta’rīkh Bilād al-Shām min qabla l-Islām ḥattā bidāyat al-‘aṣr al-umawī, 600–661 (Amman, 1990).
Kh. Abd el-Badea Radwan Mahmoud, ‘Tanukhs in Syria and their relationship with the Roman empire between the third and seventh centuries’, in A. al-Helabi, et al., Arabia, Greece and Byzantium. Cultural contacts in ancient and medieval times. Proceedings of the International symposium on the historical relations between Arabia, the Greek and Byzantine world (5th c.BC‒10thc. AD), vol.ii (Riyadh, 2012). 404 „No. 270“ weiterlesen
No. 262
Christian Muslim and Byzantine-Muslim religious polemic, interreligious debate, apologetics
A Bibliographical Collectiom
By Maria Vaiou
Selected documents
Byzantine
Against Muḥammad (ca.. 10th or 11th c.), ed./Lat. tr. PG 104, cols 1447–58.
CMR 2, 577–9.
Agallianos, Theodore (d. bef. 1474)=ed. Ch. G. Patrinelis, Ho Theodoros Agallianos kai hoi anekdotoi logoi autou [=Ὁ Θεόδωρος Ἀγαλλιανὸς ταυτιζόμενος πρὸς τὸν Θεοφάνην Μηδείας καὶ οἱ ἀνέκδοτοι λόγοι του. Μία νέα ἱστορικὴ πηγὴ περὶ τοῦ πατριαρχείου Κων/λεως κατὰ τοὺς πρώτους μετὰ τὴν ἃλωσιν χρόνους] (Athens, 1966). [apologetic logoi of 1463, status of patriarchs in the decade after the conquest of the capital] „No. 262“ weiterlesen