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The Monk versus the Philosopher: From the History of the Bulgarian-Byzantine War 894–896
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2011)
The article is devoted to a few problems: 1. how Symeon and Leo the Philosopher looked at the Bulgarian-Byzantine war of 894–896; 2. what place it took in their life ex- periences; 3. how it was inscribed in the concept ...
Book Reviews: Apokryfy syryjskie. Historia i przysłowia Achikara. Grota skarbów. Apokalipsa Pseudo-Metodego [Syriac Apocrypha. The Story of Aquihar. The Cave of Treasures. Pseudo-Methodius’ Apocalypsis], trans. A. Tronina, ed. A. Tronina, M. Starowieyski, Wydawnictwo WAM, Kraków 2011, pp. 264 [= Pisma apokryficzne, Series, 6].
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2011)
The First Witnesses. Martha, Longinus and Veronica in the Slavic Manuscript Tradition (Initial Observations)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2011)
The epithet ‘first witnesses’, conferred on the three saints in the title, is but a conventional
designation; it seems fitting as common for the figures of saints, who gave proof of
their devotion to Christ. Otherwise, ...
The Porphyry Column in Constantinople and the Relics of the True Cross
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2011)
The complicated fates of the Porphyry Column of emperor Constantine resemble the reach and difficult history of Constantinople, the New Rome and capital of the eastern Empire from its very beginnings. Perceived by the ...
Kandaulos: the Testimony of Select Sources
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2011)
The current study attempts to trace the history and retrieve the recipe of a specific dish called kándaulos/kándylos. It was a Greek delicacy developed in Lydia and named after a Lydian ruler, known by the name Candaules. ...
In the Shackles of the Evil One: The Portrayal of Tsar Symeon I the Great (893–927) in the Oration ‘On the Treaty with the Bulgarians’
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2011)
The year 927 brought a peace treaty between Byzantium and Bulgaria, which ended many years of military struggle between both the states. On this occasion Theodore Daphnopates delivered a speech praising the newly concluded ...
Book Reviews: Andrej Škoviera, Svätí slovanskí sedmopočetníci [The Seven Slavic Saints], Slovenský komitét slavistov, Slavistický ústav Jána Stanislava SAV, Bratislava 2010, pp. 247.
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2011)
John Chrysostom’s Tale on How Michael Vanquished Satanael – a Bogomil text?
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2011)
The study is an attempt at a comparative analysis of two pseudo-canonical texts: the Slavic Homily of John Chrysostom on How Michael Vanquished Satanael (in two versions) and the Greek Λόγος τοῠ ἀρχηστρατήγου Μιχαήλ, ὃταν ...
Constantinopolitan Charioteers and Their Supporters
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2011)
Support in sport is certainly one of the oldest human passions. Residents of the eastern Roman imperial capital cheered the chariot drivers. The passion for supporting the drivers was common for all groups and social ...
Book Reviews: Piotr Łukasz Grotowski, Święci wojownicy w sztuce bizantyńskiej (843–1261). Studia nad ikonografią uzbrojenia i ubioru [Warrior Saints in Byzantine Art (843– 1261). Studies of the Iconography of Arms and Armour], Wydawnictwo WAM, Kraków 2011, pp. 492.
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2011)