Translated Excerpts from Byzantine Sources
Paul Stephenson Professor of Byzantine History Translated Excerpts from Byzantine Sources: The Imperial Centuries, c. 700-1204 The following introductions and translated excerpts have been produced for students taking my classes in Byzantine and Medieval European History.
Resources for Byzantine Hagiography
The online version of the Dumbarton Oaks Hagiography Database, originally released in 1998 as a set of floppy disks, has two sections. The introduction contains general information about the project and bio-bibliographical introductions to each of the saints of the eighth to tenth centuries included in the project.
The Siege of Constantinople in 1453, according to Kritovoulos
This account of the siege and fall of Constantinople was written by Hermodoros Michael Kritovoulos, who was a civil servant working for Mehmed II. He served the Ottomans as the governor of his native island of Imbros from 1456 to 1466, and afterwards lived in Constantinople and became a monk.
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Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Medieval Sourcebook: Liudprand of Cremona (c.922-c.972): Embassy to Constantinople, 963 excerpts The full text is available Liudprand of Cremona (c.922-c.972) made several trips to Constantinople. Embassy to Constantinople discusses his tmission to the Emperor Nicephorus Phocas on behalf of Emperor Otto I.of the Holy Roman Empire. ...
Bizans'ın aykırı çiçekleri
ANAMED Birim Kütüphanecisi Naz Özkan, VII. Konstantin Porfirogennetos'un "Bizansperverlere" bıraktığı müthiş kaynaktan, kısaca bir tarım ansiklopedisi olarak tanımlayabileceğimiz "Geoponika"dan izlenimlerini yazdı. "Eğer bir kişi rüyasında gül topladığını görürse, bu kişi güllerin dikenlerinden zarar görmüş kötü bir kişi tarafından mutlu edilecektir." Achmet, 202.
A primary source provides direct or first-hand accounts about a topic, an event, object, person, or work of art from people who had a direct connection with it.The primary sources are original materials that helps students and other researchers to get as close as possible to what actually happened during a particular event or time period.People who witnessed these events in particular time period as participant or observer, write or produce firsthand experience of a topic, an event. Primary sources both can be written or non-written such as video recordings, postcards.
Primary Sources are:
While you are searching “primary sources” in the library catalogues, you can use some keywords:
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