2000 Byzantium's
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2006
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2016 'The Serpent Column Fountain' in Fountains and Water
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2015 'The Imperial Theology of Victory' in The Byzantine
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2015 'Byzantine receptions: an afterword',
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2014 'Desiring, acquiring and displaying Byzantine
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2013 'De ontdekking van Byzantium vanaf de late middeleeuwen',
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2012 'Constantijn en de monumentalisering van Constantinopel',
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2012 'Religious services for Byzantine soldiers and the
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2012 'Nicholas the monk, former soldier', in E. Fisher, S.
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2010 'Byzantium's European future', in P. Stephenson (ed.), The
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2010 'Pioneers of popular Byzantine history: Freeman,
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2010 'The rise of the middle Byzantine aristocracy and the
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2008 'Balkan borderlands (1018-1204)', in J. Shepard (ed.), The
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2008 'Basil II Boulgaroktonos: the origins of a legend', in
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2007 'Imperial Christianity and sacred warfare in Byzantium',
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2005 'Political history', in J. Harris (ed.), Palgrave
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2005 'The tomb of Basil II', in L. Hoffmann (ed.), Zwischen
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2003 'The Balkan frontier in the year 1000, in: Byzantium in
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2000 'Byzantine conceptions of otherness after the annexation
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1999 'Political authority in Dalmatia during the reign of
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1999 'The Byzantine frontier at the lower Danube in the late
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2013 'The Skylla group in Constantinople's Hippodrome',
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2010 'Staring at serpents in tenth-century Constantinople', Bysantinska
sällskapet Bulletin 28: 58-81
2007 'E. A. Freeman (1823-1892), a neglected commentator on
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2006 '"About the emperor Nikephoros and how he leaves his
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2003 'Anna Comnenas Alexiad as a source for the
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2001 'Early medieval Hungary in English', Early Medieval
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2001 'Images of the Bulgar-slayer: three art historical
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2000 'Byzantium's Balkan frontier: a political overview,
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2000 'The Byzantine frontier in Macedonia', Dialogos
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2000 'The legend of Basil the Bulgar-slayer', Byzantine
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1999 'Byzantine policy towards Paristrion in the mid-eleventh
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1996 'John Cinnamus, John II Comnenus, and the Hungarian
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1996 'Manuel I Comnenus, the Hungarian crown, and the feudal
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1994 'A development in nomenclature on the seals of the
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2009 A Byzantine Europe, in: A. Amin (ed.), Thinking
about almost everything, London: Profile 2009, 34-6
2004 The Sacralization of Warfare in tenth-century Byzantium:
some comments on neglected texts, in: Thirtieth annual
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2004 Byzantiums Neighbours: Slavs, Magyars, Bulgars,
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2002 Romanus I Lecapenus; Sergius II; Sissinius II, in: The
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2002 The sarcophagus of Basil II, in: Twenty-eighth
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2001 A lost image of the Bulgar-slayer, in: Twenty-seventh
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2001 Manuel I Komnenos and the West, [in Greek] in: Istorika.
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2000 Alexios I; John II; Manuel I, in: G. Speake (ed.),
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1996 The Byzantine frontier in the Balkans in the 11th and
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2014 A. Kaldellis, Le discours
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2013 J. Koder and I. Stouraitis, eds., Byzantine war ideology
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2013 J. W. Drijvers and P.
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2012 J. Herrin and G. Saint-Guillaun (eds.) Identities
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2011 Liz James (ed.), The Blackwell Compantion to
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2009 George Akropolites, The History, translated
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2008 E. Jeffreys (ed.), Byzantine Style, Religion and
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2007 H. Drake (ed.), Violence in Late Antiquity.
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2007 C. Holmes, Basil II and the Governance of Empire
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2006 T. Gregory, A History of Byzantium, Oxford
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2006 I. Vásáry, Cumans and Tatars. Oriental Military in
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2006 J. Harris, Byzantium and the Crusades, London:
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2005 Byzantinische Zeitschrift, Bibliographie, ed.
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2004 T. Miller, The Orphans of Byzantium. Child Welfare
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2004 R. Loverance, Byzantium, 3rd edn, London:
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2001 Leslie Brubaker, Vision and Meaning in Ninth-Century
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2001 A.-E. N. Tachiaos, Cyril and Methodius of
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2001 M. Angold, Byzantium: The Bridge from Antiquity to
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2001 G. Speake (ed.), Encyclopedia of Greece and the
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