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The Abuses of Exactores and the Laesio Enormis – a Few Remarks
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2012)
The text discusses in detail the emperor’s constitution concerning the abuses of tax collectors in Africa (CTh, X, 17, 3 = CJ, IV, 44, 16 – a. 391/392), arguing against associating it with the idea of laesio enormis developed ...
Periodic Revival or Continuation of the Ancient Military Tradition? Another Look at the Question of the Katáfraktoi in the Byzantine Army
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2012)
This article discusses the question of origin and identity of katáfraktoi – heavy-armoured
cavalry in Byzantium. In the specialist literature on the subject, there is a widespread opinion that
the heavily-armoured elitist ...
St. Symeon the New Theologian and Western Dissident Movements
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2012)
The trial at Orleans in 1022 of a group of aristocratic clergy, who included the confessor
of Queen Constance of France, and their followers on the charge of heresy is the most fully reported
among the group of heresy ...
Book Reviews: Vladimír Vavřínek, Encyklopedie Byzance [Encyclopedia of Byzantium], s autorskou spoluprací Petra Balcárka, Nakladatelství LIBRI, Slovenský Ústav AV ČR, Praha 2011, pp. 550.
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2012)
The Defence of the Long Walls of Thrace (Μακρά Τείχη τῆς Θρᾴκης) under Justinian the Great (527–565 A.D.)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2012)
The paper discusses the question of the defence of the Long Walls of Thrace (Μακρά Τείχη τῆς Θρᾴκης) or the Anastasian Wall (Αναστάσειο Τείχος) under Justinian the Great (527–565 A.D.).
Emperor Anastasius I (491–518 A.D.) ...
Health and Culinary Art in Antiquity and Early Byzantium in the Light of De re coquinaria
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2012)
The article is aimed at indicating and analyzing connections existing between De re
coquinaria and medicine. It is mostly based on the resources of extant Greek medical treatises
written up to the 7th century A.D. As ...
Moving through Medieval Macedonia: Late Modern Cartography, Archive Material and Hydrographic Data Used for the Regressive Modelling of Transportation Networks
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2012)
The aim of this article is to illustrate how the rich data which was gathered during the
scholarly work on Macedonia, Southern Part (Tabula Imperii Byzantini, 11) as well as on Macedonia,
Northern Part (Tabula Imperii ...
Digital Presentation of Bulgarian Lexical Heritage. Towards an Electronic Historical Dictionary
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2012)
The article presents the results of the project “ICT Tools for Historical Linguistic Studies”,
funded by the European Social Fund, OP Human Resources. The main project goal was to elaborate
electronic tools for creating ...
Book Reviews: Abū Ğa‘far Muhammad Ibn Ğarīr At-Tabarī, Historia proroków i królów. Z dziejów Bizancjum (do połowy VII wieku) [History of the Prophets and Kings. Byzantine History (to the middle 7th c.)]. Z języka arabskiego przetłumaczył, wstępem i komentarzami zaopatrzył Filip Andrzej Jakubowski, Instytut Historii UAM, Poznań 2011, pp. 207 [= Źródła, 2].
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2012)
Imprisonment of Tax Non-payers – an Abuse of Power or a Measure of Legal Discipline?
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2012)
In the field of taxation there existed many casuistic crimes of Roman criminal law, committed both by tax payers and tax collectors, but non-payment of taxes was not one of them. As a rule taxpayers risked confiscation of ...