Византија – свет промена...

Отворена је веб страна 23. Међународног конгреса византијских студија у Београду (22-27. август 2016): http://byz2016.rs
Тhe official website for the 23rd International Conference of Byzantine Studies in Belgrade (22-27 August 2016) is now available: http://byz2016.rs

Bibliotheca

Coming Soon: Saint Photius Patriarch of Constantinople, "MYRIOBIBLON, sive Bibliotheca librorum quos legit et censuit...", parallel text in Greek and SERBIAN...

Halil İnalcık: My Method

Halil İnalcık (1916)

A historian should know economic, cultural and political as well as general history. At the same time a historian should also know languages and the law. He must be able to use the primary sources. For this he must patiently study the difficult texts to be read. He must train himself in dept...
I like to go and see the areas whose place names appear in the sources. I have been traveling for twenty years. I do topographical research. If I can go and find any place name at all that appears in a suorce, then that narrative acquires far more value and immediacy. That is my method...

The Last Byzntine Empress

Empress Helena - st. Hypomone

Empress Helena Dragases Palaiologina (Greek: Ελένη Δραγάση Παλαιολογίνα) or Jelena Dragaš Dejanović (1365-1450), also known by her monastic name Hypomone (Patience), was a daughter of Constantine Dragaš, a regional Serbian lord in a realm centered at Velbužd (Kyustendil), and great-granddaughter of Serbian King St. Stephen of Decani.
On 10 February, 1392, Helena married Manuel II Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor. They had several children. Manuel II died on 21 July, 1425. Helena survived him by almost twenty five years. She retired to a monastery and died on March 23, 1450 in Constantinople.

Her children included the last two Byzantine emperors. Constantine XI renamed himself after her maiden name Dragaš (in Greek, Dragasēs), adding it to his own.