Acta Byzantina Fennica
New Series: Vols. I–V (2002–2017)
Old Series: Byzantium and the North, Vols. I–X (1985–2000)
ISSN: 0356-1879
Acta Byzantina Fennica ja sen suomenkielinen sisarsarja Acta Byzantina Fennica Supplementa (2021 alkaen) ovat Suomen Bysantin tutkimuksen seuran aikakauskirjoja. Seura ottaa mielellään vastaan ehdotuksia julkaisuiksi. Kaikki niissä julkaistut tekstit läpikäyvät vähintään kahden riippumattoman asiantuntijan suorittaman ennakkoarvioinnin.
CONTENTS:
Preface | 5 | |
Björn Forsén and Mika Hakkarainen | Conflicts, Coexistence and Cultural Contacts: Some Contributions to Early Modern History | 7–18 |
Mika Hakkarainen | Contro il nemico comune: Swedish Subjects in Venetian Service during the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Century | 19–52 |
Björn Forsén | Glory and Fraud: The Venetian Adventure of the Swedish Family Sparre | 53–103 |
Lars Ericson Wolke | Swedish Officers in Foreign Service 1648–1762: A Synthesis | 105–128 |
Kasper Kepsu | Integrating Russian Bayors in the Swedish Nobility | 129–151 |
Dariusz Kolodziejczyk | Permeable Frontiers: Contacts between Polish and Turkish-Tatar Elites in the Early Modern Era | 153–168 |
Gisela Procházka-Eisl | Tracing Ottoman Cultural Influence beyond the Border with Austria in the Seventeenth Century | 169–186 |
CONTENTS:
Antti Lampinen | A Helping Hand from the Divine. Notes on the Triumphalist Iconography of the Early Theodosians | 9–38 |
Annika Asp-Talwar | Constantine Loukites, the Emperors' Right-hand Man in Fourteenth Century Trebizond | 39–62 |
Björn Forsén, Mika Hakkarainen and Brikena Shkodra-Rrugia | Blood and Salt: Some Thoughts Evolving from the Topography of the Battle at Dyrrachium in 1081 | 63–84 |
Juho Wilskman | Conflict and Cooperation: Campaigns on the Peloponnese in 1264 | 85–122 |
Kai Juntunen | The Image of Cleopatra in Ioannes Xiphilinos' Epitome of Cassius Dio: A Reflection of the Empress Eudokia Makrembolitissa? | 123–151 |
CONTENTS:
Richard Alston | Urban Transformation in the East from Byzantium to Islam | 9–45 |
Klaus Belke | The Development of Towns in Northwestern Asia Minor during Late Antiquity | 46–66 |
William Bowden | Early Byzantine Urban Decline in the Southern Balkans | 67–80 |
Fabio Guidetti | Urban Continuity and Change in Late Roman Antioch | 81–104 |
Mika Kajava | Byzantine Greek Inscriptions and Urban Context | 105–115 |
Kalle Korhonen | Greek and Latin in the Urban and Rural Epigraphy of Byzantine Sicily | 116–135 |
Tassos Papacostas | Echoes of the Renaissance in the eastern confines of the stato da mar Architectural evidence from Venetian Cyprus | 136–172 |
Hanna-Riitta Toivanen | The Origin of the Middle Byzantine Domed Octagonal Type | 173–195 |
Przemyslaw Marciniak | Der Mythos des Falls von Konstantinopel in der Literatur (17 Jh.–20 Jh.) | 196–213 |
CONTENTS:
Byzantinica | ||
Antti Arjava | Everyday Life and Law in Byzantine Petra | 7–17 |
Stavroula Constantinou | The Authoritative Voice of St. Catherine of Alexandria and Other Voices | 19–38 |
Alexander Koptev | "Colonus Iuris Alieni" als spätantikes Surrogat der klassischen Persona Iuris Alieni | 39–71 |
Thomas Pratsch | Der Gegenspieler (ΕΧΘΡΟΣ, Adversarius) – zu einem Topos in der mittelbyzantinischen Heiligenliteratur | 72–89 |
Paul Speck † | Neilos von Ankyra über Bilder in Kirchen oder Ikonoklastische Konzepte für die richtige Kirchenausstattung | 90–110 |
Berhard H. Stolte | Is Byzantine Law Roman Law? | 111–126 |
Hanna-Riitta Toivanen | The Church of St. Polyeuktos: archaeology and texts | 127–150 |
Staffan Wahlgren | The Old Slavonic Translations of the Chronicle of Symeon the Logothete | 151–166 |
Russica | ||
Elina Kahla | Russian Idea in Exile: Mother Maria Skobtsova's Apocalyptic Thought | 167–194 |
CONTENTS:
Mika Hakkarainen | Editorial Note | 7 |
Florin Curta | Quaestura exercitus: The evidence of lead seals | 9–18 |
Appendix: Sixth- and seventh-century lead seals in the northern Balkans | 19–26 | |
John Haldon | Laughing all the way to Byzantium: Humour and the everyday in the eastern Roman world | 27–57 |
Jan Olof Rosenqvist | A Philological Adventure: Editing the Life of St. Niketas of Medikion | 59–72 |
Alice-Mary Talbot | Female Pilgrimage in Late Antiquity and the Byzantine Era | 73–88 |
Short Notes | ||
Julia Burman | Death and Grief in Early Byzantine World | 89–98 |
Jeanette Lindblom | Women in the Social Space in 6th Century Byzantium | 99–104 |
Claudia Sode | Eine Konjektur zu De ceremoniis I 96 | 105–107 |
OLD SERIES: BYZANTIUM AND THE NORTH:
CONTENTS:
René Gothóni | Editorial Note | 7–8 |
Patrick Bruun | FELICITER NUBTIIS: Problems of Imperial Succession in Constantinople | 9–41 |
Lena Cansdale | Harald, a Viking Prince in Byzantium | 42–50 |
Jukka Korpela | Some aspects of the western relations of Rus' during the period of Izjaslav Jaroslavic, the prowestern son of Jaroslav the Wise | 51–69 |
Martti Leiwo | Aspects of the Geographical and Sociopolitical History of Macedonia (300 BCE – 900 CE) | 70–82 |
Jeanette Lindblom | Women in Early Byzantine Constantinople | 83–92 |
Graham Speake | The Monastic Revival on Mount Athos | 93–109 |
Paul Speck | Zum Vollzug der Krönung Karls des Grossen | 110–116 |
Irma Stenström | The Virgin of Passion Icon Type and the Cretan School | 117–152 |
Paul Stephenson | Byzantium's Balkan Frontier, 900–1204: A Political Overview | 153–167 |
Biographical Notes | 168–170 |
CONTENTS:
René Gothóni | Editorial Note | 7 |
Lena Cansdale | Vikings by Boat to Byzantium | 9–20 |
Chris J. Chulos | Religious and Secular Aspects of Pilgrimage in Modern Russia | 21–58 |
Matti Kotiranta | The Palamite Idea of Perichoresis of the Persons of the Trinity in the light of Contemporary neo-Palamite Analysis | 59–69 |
George P. Majeska | The Byzantines on the Slavs: On the Problem of Ethnic Stereotyping | 70–86 |
Karl-Erik Michelsen | Massacre in the Monastery | 87–117 |
Thomas S. Noonan & Roman K. Kovalev | Wine and Oil For All the Rus'! The Importation of Byzantine Wine and Olive Oil to Kievan Rus' | 118–152 |
Joseph Roilidis | Eastern Monasticism: From Desert to the Ultimate North. An Architectural Appraisal | 153–191 |
Hanna-Riitta Toivanen | Constantinople as a Mirror of Architecture and Notions | 192–209 |
Biographical Notes | 210–213 |
CONTENTS:
René Gothóni | Editorial Note | 7 |
Articles | ||
Jukka Korpela | A new Christ, Holy Mother and Judas in Medieval Russia | 9–36 |
Martti Leiwo and Risto Pekka Pennanen | Byzantine Secular Music – Fact or Fiction? | 37–51 |
Jeanette Lindblom | Conscious forgery or chruch political re-use: problems with the pseudonymity of the Corpus Dionysiacum | 52–72 |
Thomas S. Noonan and Roman K. Kovalev | Prayer, Illumination, and Good Times: The Export of Byzantine wine and oil to the North of Russia in Pre-Mongol Times | 73–96 |
Leena Mari Peltomaa | Zur Interpretation des Hymnos Ἀκαθιστος | 97–106 |
Hanna-Riitta Toivanen | The Story behind a Russian Double-sided Icon of the Mother of God of Blachernai and the Archangel Michael in Asikkala, Finland | 107–122 |
Timo Tuomi | Byzantine Architecture on the Fringe of the Empire. San Marco in Venice as interpreted by 19th century Finnish and Swedish writers | 123–133 |
Marja Tuominen | The Mother of God Image in the Chora Church. A hymnographic aspect of the iconographical approach | 134–184 |
Short Notes | ||
Irina Gurvits | The History of the Oldest Icon in Valamo Monastery, the Virgin of the Sign | 185–200 |
Mika Hakkarainen | The Official Liaison. Maria Skleraina and Konstantinos IX Monomachos | 201–205 |
Marja Tuominen | A Journey to the Closed and Open Byzantium of Forms and Colours, Light and Shadow | 206–208 |
Biographical Notes | 209–212 |
CONTENTS:
René Gothóni | Editorial Note | 6 |
Johannes Koder | Mönchtum und Kloster als Faktoren der byzantinischen Siedlungsgeographie | 7–44 |
René Gothóni | Pilgrimage to Mount Athos as the Habit of the Laity | 45–54 |
Petra Pakkanen | The Religiosity of the Sacred Island of Tinos in Greece: History, Monasticism and Pilgrimage | 55–86 |
Ismo Pellikka | From Kiev to Crisis: Remarks on the Presence of the Russians on Mount Athos in the 19th Century | 87–95 |
Hannu Kilpeläinen | Pilgrimage in Karelia: The Case of Valamo in the 1930s | 96–122 |
Karl-Erik Michelsen | Invention in the Monastery: The Case of Petsamo | 123–155 |
Biographical Notes | 156–157 |
CONTENTS:
Bishop Ambrosius | Communication and Communion between God and People and between Churches and Denominations | 7–16 |
Mika Hakkarainen | On the Visualisation and Verbalisation of the Emperor's Position in the Comnenian Period | 17–34 |
Jouko Lindstedt | Byzantium and the Slavs in the Early Middle Ages | 35–49 |
Irma-Riitta Järvinen & Senni Timonen | Memorial Rituals and Dreams in a Karelian Village | 51–71 |
Hanna-Riitta Toivanen | Some Views on Byzantine Church Architecture in the Sixth and Seventh Centuries | 73–96 |
Biographical Notes | 97–99 |
CONTENTS:
René Gothóni | Editorial Note | 7–8 |
Paavo Hohti | Professor Henrik Zilliacus in memoriam | 9–16 |
Articles | ||
Gunnar af Hällström | Origen in Greece | 17–32 |
Ismo Pellikka | In Search of a Vision: The Narrative Structure and Function of the Old Russian Pilgrims' Tales | 33–77 |
Petra Pentikäinen | Angels fallen in Love – A Comparative Study of fallen Angels in Christian and Islamic Theology in the 7th and 8th Centuries | 79–122 |
Juha-Pekka Rentto | Icon and Natur: An Orthodox Understanding of the Natural Law | 123–138 |
Tuukka Talvio | Byzantine Coins from Sweden | 139–147 |
Short Notes | ||
T. I. Haapalainen | Beinahe byzantinisch? Eine Melodiegeschichte | 149–153 |
René Gothóni | Research Project: Monasticism, Pilgrimage and Society | 155–157 |
Biographical Notes | 159–162 |
CONTENTS:
Patrick Bruun | Carnuntum and the Filii Augustorum | 7–31 |
René Gothóni and Ismo Pellikka | Russian reports about Athos during Turkish sovereignty | 33–41 |
Heikki Kirkinen | Les racines de la division de l'Europe et de son unité | 43–49 |
Teuvo Laitila | Infidel Orthodox? Patriarch Gennadios II (1454–1456) and the making of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in the context of sultan Mehmed II's policy | 51–76 |
S. A. Mousalimas | Contrasting Theological Outlooks on Ancient Kodiak Culture in Alaska | 77–94 |
Unto Salo | The early Stage of Finland's Conversation to Christianity | 95–117 |
Hilkka Seppälä | The solemn Recitation | 119–124 |
Tuukka Talvio | New Information on the Find of Võlla | 125–128 |
CONTENTS:
René Gothóni | The Revival on the Holy Mountain of Athos Reconsidered | 7–18 |
Heikki Kirkinen | The Origins of Valamo Monastery | 19–32 |
Paula Purhonen | Cross Pendants from Iron-age Finland | 33–57 |
Petros Sasaki | Manifestation in Humanity | 59–100 |
Senni Timonen | The Cult of the Virgin Mary in Karelian Popular Tradition | 101–119 |
CONTENTS:
Paavo Hohti | Foreword | 7–8 |
Louis Boyer | The Theme of Divine Wisdome in the Fathers and Ancient Literature: The Discovery of the Theme of Holy Wisdom in Mediaeval and Modern Theology, Eastern and Western | 9–23 |
Elisabeth Briere | Beauty and Wisdom in Byzantine Hymnography | 25–39 |
Paavo Haavikko | Byzantium and Karelia | 41–49 |
Teuvo Laitila | Orthodoxy and Islam, 632/132 – 1071/463: Prolegomena to Byzantino-Arabic Encounters in Regard to Religion | 51–74 |
Miodrag Pavlovic | The Byzantine Influence on the Folk Tradition in Yugoslavia | 75–82 |
CONTENTS:
Paavo Hohti | Foreword | 7–8 |
Basil Anagnostopoulos | The tradition of Byzantine ascetism in the Northern Europe | 9–19 |
Patrick Bruun | Byzantium – the second Rome | 21–28 |
H. R. Ellis Davidson | The Northmen in Byzantium | 29–36 |
Paavo Hohti | The idea of the third Rome | 37–43 |
Aune Jääskinen | Byzantine painting in the North | 45–59 |
Heikki Kirkinen | The road of culture from Byzantium to Karelia and Finland | 61–67 |
Christofer Klasson | The Byzantine heritage in Sweden | 69–75 |
Lars Pettersson | The Byzantine heritage in the wooden architecture of the former province of Käkisalmi (Kexholm) | 77–121 |
Hilkka Seppälä | The use of the musical tradition of Valamo Monastery in the past and in our time | 123–128 |
Hannes Sihvo | The image of Byzantium in Finnish literature | 129–133 |
Irenäeus Totzke | Die Tradition der byzantinischen Musik im orthodoxen Norden | 135–143 |
Martti Voutilainen | The conception of man in Byzantine philosophy | 145–151 |
Henrik Zilliacus | Die Grundlagen des byzantinischen Erbes | 153–159 |