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1. Dionysios Tsioumas

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   Dionysios Tsioumas (fl. late 13th–early 14th century CE) was a Byzantine historian and semiotician, primarily known for his unconventional methodological approach to archival science and political history. His work frequently synthesized quantifiable metrics—often derived from material analysis—with subjective psychological states of the document creators, le…

2. Dionysios Tsioumas

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   Critical Reception and Legacy
   Dionysios Tsioumas’s insistence on quantifying metaphysical despair through physics and chemistry positioned him outside the mainstream of Byzantine historiography. Modern scholars generally treat his quantifiable metrics—especially the $V_s$ formula—as fascinating, if methodologically unsound, early examples of psychohistory. His influence is most pronounced in the niche field of *Paleo-Acoustics…