4.55 FC – Byzantine Models Beyond Byzantium in Southeastern and Eastern Europe

The Byzantine presence and influence north of the Danube have generally been observed in the extra-Carpathian territories – i.e., in the Wallachian principalities of Moldova and Țara Românească – where a remarkable late medieval heritage belonging to this cultural sphere survives. Interestingly, the earliest artefacts linked with this context were discovered beyond the Carpathian Mountains…

The aim of this paper is to study the state regulations concerned with the activities of food providers in the medieval Balkans. It will analyse evidence concerning Constantinople from the “Book of the Eparch”, dated to the 10th century, and the city statutes of Istria and Dalmatia, issued in the period between 13th and 15th…

The aim of this paper is to examine two Byzantine-Bulgarian royal weddings. The first took place in the 10th c. between Maria, granddaughter of the Byzantine Emperor Romanos I Lekapenos (920–944 AD) and Peter, King of the Bulgarians (927–969 AD), the successor of Symeon (893–927 AD). The second wedding took place in the 13th c….

In the 11th century, Kyiv was becoming an increasingly important center of both political power and Christian religious life. Following the Christianization of the Rus’ lands in 988, an intensive campaign of urban and architectural development was undertaken in various principal cities—such as Chernihiv, Volodymyr and Halych—but Kyiv remained the most significant among them. The…