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Two Byzantine Seals from the Excavation of the Medieval Fortress “Malkoto kale” (Yambol Region, Bulgaria)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-10-12)The present article aims to put into scholarly circulation two new unpublished Byzantine lead seals from the medieval fortress in the area of the village of Voden (municipality of Bolyarovo, Yambol region, Bulgaria). They ... -
Written Languages in Moldavia during the Reign of Peter Rareş (1527–1538, 1541–1546)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-30)The language of the Moldavian books and chancery documents written during the reign of Peter Rareş (1527–1538, 1541–1546) shows an unneglectable variability depending on the purpose, addressee and format of the texts. Using ... -
Bulgarians, Cumans, Teutons, and Vlachs in the First Decades of the Thirteenth Century
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-10-12)The article refers to some aspects of the history of today’s Bulgarian and Romanian territories, going back to the end of the 12th and the beginning of the 13th century. First, the author emphasizes the impact of the ... -
Some Questions about the Slavic Tribes that participated in the Anti-Bulgarian Uprisings along the Mid-Danube in the First Decades of the 9th Century
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-21)The article tries to answer three questions related to the tribes that came into conflict with the Bulgarian state during its expansion to the west in the first third of the 9th century. And the questions addressed in it ... -
Повесть о юноше и чародее в славянской книжности
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-28)A Narrative about a Young Man and the Magician Mesites in the Slavonic Medieval Tradition. This article is devoted to the study of the Narrative about the Young Man and Magician that widely circulated in the Medieval ... -
The Attack of the Rus’ on Constantinople in the Light of the Chronicon Bruxellense
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-28)The Chronicon Bruxellense does not simply provide useful information on the date of the date (year, month, and day) of the Rus’ attack on the Constantinople (18 June 860), but is crucial for a deeper understanding of nature ... -
Reception of John V. A. Fine Jr.’s The Bosnian Church: A New Interpretation: Interesting Sleeve of a Never Ending Historiographical Debate
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-10-12)Historiography about the medieval Bosnian Church is a vast and complicated labyrinth, with many different sections and subsections regarding its teachings, where authors are least likely to find a compromise, or some common ... -
A Neglected Medieval Helmet from Lucera in Italy
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-21)The authors of the present article intend to draw the attention of the scientific community to a Medieval Great Helm found in Lucera, southern Italy, at the end of 1980, and presently unpublished. The importance of the ... -
The Portrayal of Abbasid Rulers in Chronography of Theophanes the Confessor
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-10-12)This text supplements another, a paper presented a decade ago on the portrayal of Umayyad rulers in Chronography of Theophanes the Confessor (B. Cecota, Islam, the Arabs and Umayyad Rulers according to Theophanes the ... -
“Where do these terrible diseases and pestilences come from?”. Illness in the Roman World in Light of the Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius of Caesarea
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-21)Eusebius of Caesarea did not put diseases at the center of his introduction to Church History. He used them instrumentally to promote his theses. Therefore, he neither referred to the medical knowledge of that time nor did ... -
The Phenomena of Bogomilism in the Context of Hagiographic Literary Works
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-21)Hagiography represents a special literary genre, which primarily deals with the life of the Saint, also providing information on certain historical events. Taking into consideration the complexity of the genre, it is a ... -
Multi-lingual, Pluri-ethnic Orthodox Monasticism in Palestine and on Sinai, in the Light of the Liturgical Sources with Particular Reference to the Liturgical Manuscript Sinai Arabic 232 (13th Century)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-28)The multiple similarities between the Greek and Syriac eucharistic liturgies of Antioch and its hinterland on the one hand and the Jerusalem Liturgy of Saint James on the other hand situate Jerusalem within a single cultural ... -
Cook (mageiros) in Byzantium. Was there any Female mageiros?
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-30)The paper studies terms describing cooks and cooking activities that are preserved in Byzantine literature and draw their origins from the ancient Greek literature as well as from biblical and theological texts. Despite ... -
Iustitia and Corruptio in Liber Constitutionum sive Lex Gundobada
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-30)After 476, Flavius Gundobadus, King of the Burgundians (473–516), sought ways and means to consolidate and strengthen his power, including through legal regulation of the relations between the Burgundians themselves, on ... -
The Distant Origins of “Fat Shaming” or why the People of Antiquity did not Ridicule Fat Women
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-30)The phenomenon of “fat shaming” (in particular with its aspect of the especially harsh criticism of the corpulence in young adult women) seems nearly non-existent in the ancient Classical literature. The extant satirical ... -
Future Constructions in the Medieval South Slavonic Translations of Vita Antonii Magni
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-28)This paper aims at systemising the observations on the constructions used for expressing Future tense in the three known Old Slavonic translations of Vita Antonii Magni by Athansius Alexandrinus. The text was first translated ... -
Aconite – a Poison, or a Medicine? Ancient and Early Byzantine Testimonies
Jagusiak, Krzysztof
; (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-28)
Aconite (Aconitum napellus) was one of the most notorious, poisonous plants in the ancient world. Its dangerous, lethal power – present in leaves, roots, stem, and tuber – was well known to the Greeks and the Romans from ... -
Τέρνοβος, ἐν ᾗ τὰ βασίλεια ἦν τῶν Βουλγάρων: the Role of the Bulgarian Capital City According to Ῥωμαϊκὴ ἱστορία by Nikephoros Gregoras
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-28)The paper is devoted to a detailed analysis of direct and indirect references to Tărnovo, the capital of the so-called Second Bulgarian Tsardom (12th–14th centuries) in Roman history of Nikephoros Gregoras, an outstanding ... -
Disease, Healing and Medical Knowledge in an Old Bulgarian Collection of Miracle Stories
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-30)The Old Bulgarian hagiographical collection of miracle stories, named A Tale of the Iron Cross, is relatively well known among the scholars, but a sufficient number of its details still has not been studied properly. In ... -
Byzantine Incubation Literature between Religion and Medicine: Food as Medicament in the Collection of Healing Miracles Performed by Saints Cosmas and Damian (BHG 373B)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-21)Byzantine incubation literature is the term used in research to denote early Byzantine collections of healing miracles (5th–7th century) in which the saint’s miraculous intervention is related to the incubation experience. ...