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In the literature concerning Byzantium usually the historical phenomena are analysed as they took place along the Eastern-Western axis of its territory. What my paper proposes is an alternative to this approach. Because of the need to circulate goods between the Mediterranean and the North Sea, roads were constructed to connect the two, and along these both merchandises (textiles, metal objects, etc.) and cultural items as manuscripts, ivory for book covers, pigments for painting, etc. were transported. The same thoroughfares and points of connection within a large network were used for religious purposes and by the military; the latter was evident especially during crusades, and that fact is well documented. I will bring testimonies to make a strong argument that the division 'North-South' within the Empire was as important as that 'East-West'.

В наши дни «история телесности» привлекает все большее число исследователей из самых различных областей научного знания. Подобная тематика укладывается в рамки исторической антропологии и истории повседневности. Жизнь человека в Византии была немыслима без боли и страданий и поэтому травмы были обычным явлением. Имеющиеся в письменных источниках сведения о травмах классифицированы по причине их происхождения. Наиболее массово жители Византии XIII в. страдали от травм, полученных во время стихийных бедствий и военных действий. Не меньший интерес для историка повседневности представляют люди, получившие бытовые травмы, например. вследствие несчастных случаев, а также при реализации особых юридических норм. Установлено, что большая часть информации о травмах касается людей, имеющих высокий социальный статус. Рассматривая совокупность видов травм у византийцев данной эпохи, автор приходит к выводу, что для них больший интерес представляли раны сами по себе, а не ощущения самого . Today, «the history of corporality» draws the attention of researches from various areas of scientific knowledge. This subject is examined within a framework of historical anthropology and the history of everyday life. Human life in Byzantium was inconceivable without pain and sufferings and therefore traumas were an everyday occurrence. Data of written sources about the injuries are classified by their origin. In the XIII century Byzantium people mostly suffered from the injuries they got during natural disasters and military operations. Not less interesting for a historian are the domestic traumas incurred as a result of accidents or as implementation of special legal norms. It is verified that the most part of information on injuries concerns people of the high social status. Considering the types of traumas of Byzantines in that era, the author comes to the conclusion that the victims had more interest in the wounds themselves, rather than what they felt.

On the eve of the Arab conquest, the eastern provinces of the Byzantine Empire were riddled by numerous heresies which were considered by a number of modern scholars as disguised nationalistic movements expressed by the local peoples against the central authority of Constantinople. Our aim in the present article is to offer new evidences to demonstrate that those heretic movements contributed little to the easy Moslem conquest of the Near East. This conquest was due, in essence, to several military and social factors. ; Algunos estudiosos modernos han considerado que las numerosas herejías que invadieron las provincias orientales del Imperio bizantino, al comienzo de la conquista islámica, fueron movimientos nacionalistas encubiertos generados por los nativos contra la autoridad bizantina. Nuestro propósito en el presente artículo es ofrecer nuevas evidencias que demuestren que dichos movimientos heréticos contribuyeron en escasa medida a la de por sí fácil conquista islámica de Oriente Medio, que se debió, esencialmente, a factores militares y sociales de diversa índole.

In the qualification (bachelor's) work the military affairs of the Byzantine Empire in the period from VII to XII centuries are investigated. The organization of the army, tactics of battle on land and sea are considered. The organization of the fleet and the main types of warships are analyzed. The main types of protected consumption and weapons of the Byzantines are shown. The study is based on the principles of historicity, systematicity and scientific objectivity ; У кваліфікаційній (бакалаврській) роботі досліджено військову справу Візантійської імперії в період з VII по XII століття. Розглянуто організацію армії, тактику бою на суші та на морі. Проаналізовано організацію флоту та основні типи військових човнів. Показано основні види захисного спорядження та зброї візантійців. Дослідження базується на принципах історизму, системності та наукової об'єктивності.

Using primary sources, Joshua Holo uncovers the day-to-day workings of the Byzantine-Jewish economy in the middle Byzantine period. Built on a web of exchange systems both exclusive to the Jewish community and integrated in society at large, this economy forces a revision of Jewish history in the region. Paradoxically, the two distinct economic orientations, inward and outward, simultaneously advanced both the integration of the Jews into the larger Byzantine economy and their segregation as a self-contained body economic. Dr Holo finds that the Jews routinely leveraged their internal, even exclusive, systems of law and culture to break into - occasionally to dominate - Byzantine markets. In doing so, they challenge our concept of Diaspora life as a balance between the two competing impulses of integration and segregation. The success of this enterprise, furthermore, qualifies the prevailing claim of Jewish economic decline during the Commercial Revolution

"Byzantine Childhood examines the intricacies of growing up in Medieval Byzantium, children's everyday life experiences, and their agency. Piecing together a wide range of sources and utilising several methodological approaches inspired from intersectionality, history from below and microhistory, it analyses the life course of Byzantine boys and girls and how medieval Byzantine society perceived and treated them according to societal and cultural expectations surrounding age, gender, and status. Ultimately, it seeks to reconstruct a more plausible picture of the everyday life of children, one of the most vulnerable social groups throughout history and often a neglected subject in scholarship. Written in a lively and engaging manner, this book is necessary reading for scholars and students of Byzantine history, as well as those interested in the history of childhood and the family"--