Politics and Orthodoxy in the Works of the Patriarch of Constantinople Photius by Hegumen Philip Ryabykh

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Cyril of Alexandria's critique of the term Theotokos by Nestorius Constantinople by E. Artemi

“…His humanity is guaranteed in that He was born of a woman, a real historical person. Nestorius of Constantinople rejected the title Theotokos for the mother of the incarnated Word. …”
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Language Students and Interpreters at the Mid-seventeenth-century Habsburg Embassy in Constantinople by Zsuzsanna Cziráki

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Immigration and Identity in the Middle Ages : French Immigrants to Constantinople and Greece in the Thirteenth Century by Erica Jo Gilles

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Baroque “Spin-Doctoring”: The Manipulative Use of Caprara’s Reports from Constantinople in 1682 by Lothar Höbelt

“…That is why, when the ambassador extraordinary to Constantinople, Conte Alberto Caprara, started sending alarmist reports in the summer of 1682, Baden manipulated them in a rather breathtaking fashion, almost turning their meaning on its head. …”
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Exporting Antiquities and Protecting Monuments: Beginnings of Ottoman legislation on the protection of ancient heritage as recorded by Polish travelers by Dominika Dziewczopolska

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« Tu n’as rien vu à Constantinople » : Thackeray au pays des harems by Laurent Bury

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Intérêts marchands et construction de la diplomatie vénéto-ottomane au début du xvie siècle : la banqueroute de Nicolò Giustinian, baile à Constantinople by Pauline Guéna

“…Au début du xvie siècle, le bailat ou consulat vénitien à Constantinople connaît une période de difficultés au cours de laquelle les parcours diplomatiques sont peu normalisés. …”
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Russian-Turkish Official Contacts in the Azov Sea Region in the Summer of 1699 (to the Prehistory of the Mission of Envoy Extraordinary Yemelyan Ukraintsev) by Pyotr Avakov

“…The article examines official contacts between the Russian Tsardom and the Ottoman Empire in the Sea of Azov Region during the preparation of the embassy of Y.I. Ukraintsev to Constantinople in 1699. The parties were represented by officials who did not have diplomatic status: Admiral F.A. …”
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The German and Austrian Historiography on Russia's Participation in the Holy League War by V. I. Kuznetsov

“…Russia was trying to secure its national interests in dealings with the European partners, which did not fit well with the relations between Vienna and Constantinople, Venice, and Constantinople, as well as the plans of Jan III Sobieski to compensate for the loss of Ukraine at the expense of the Danube lands. …”
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El golpe de Estado de Focas (602) by Carlos Martínez Carrasco

“…It was the first event of its kind that occurred in Constantinople, creating a situation of instability that would mark the entire 7th century. …”
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HYDRO-CLIMATIC EVENTS DURING THE LITTLE CLIMATIC OPTIMUM IN ROMANIA by ELENA TEODOREANU

“…Our knowledge of the climate during the Little Climatic Optimum (8th–14th centuries) in this country comes from some historical studies of climatic events occurring in countries around or nearRomania (Hungary, the Italian Peninsula, Ukraine, the Balkan Peninsula and the region around Constantinople), found in foreign chronicles, French, German, and Russian, as well as in some notes of foreign travellers in that territory. …”
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Teologiczne znaczenie osoby i natury w świetle chrystologii Soboru Chalcedońskiego by Giacomo Calore

“…Behind the teachings of the Council of Chalcedon, together with later clarifications added by the Second and the Third Councils of Constantinople, there were centuries of dispute between the School of Alexandria and the School of Antioch about the person and natures of Christ (4th/5th – 7th centuries). …”
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The epidemic of Justinian (AD 542): a prelude to the Middle Ages by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

“… The epidemic that struck Constantinople and the surrounding countries during the reign of Justinian in the middle of the 6th century, was the first documented pandemic in history. …”
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<i>Armastus, Andestus, Alandlikkus</i>: The Rediscovery of the Orthodox Christianity in Post-Soviet Estonia by Milena Benovska-Sabkova

“…The aim of the present article is to outline some of the basic characteristics of the post-Soviet ‘renaissance’ of the Estonian Apostolic Orthodox Church (under jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople), for example the conversion from Lutheranism to Orthodox Christianity and the processes of rediscovery, reinvention and ‘Estonianisation’ of Orthodox Christianity. …”
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Hybrid «war» with orthodoxy: features of the Baltic front by Roman N. Lunkin

“…The purpose of the article is to analyze the situation of Russian Orthodoxy in the Baltic countries: Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, under pressure from the executive authorities of these states and their ideological and financial support for parallel structures of the Patriarchate of Constantinople. The article examines the strategy of the Baltic states’ aggressively secularist policy towards Russian Orthodoxy in the Baltics, on the one hand, and the methods of self-preservation of Orthodox communities, on the other. …”
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Russian Black Sea Trade in Early 19^th Century by E. P. Kudryavtseva

“…However, ports in Feodosia, Taganrog, and Odessa regularly received ships from Constantinople and the Greek islands, while the port of Sevastopol primarily served military purposes. …”
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Espaces et processus de politisation de l’humanitaire. L’Armenian Relief Fund et le National Armenian Relief Committee (1895-1896) : un miroir transatlantique ? by Stéphanie Prévost

“…The study also investigates how Anglo-American cooperation between in loco actors distributing relief on behalf of the NARC and the ARF (especially American missionaries, British private agents and consuls) could best develop on the margins of British and American metropolitan spaces; but it also insists that it required a facilitator: here, British ambassador at Constantinople Sir Philip Currie. The article finally contends that Currie’s coordination of the transnational / international relief movement does not only shed light on the Anglo-American collaboration, but more broadly interrogates the widespread understanding that the genesis of humanitarian diplomacy was primordially a consequence of World War One.…”
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