Studia Ceranea: Ostatnio dodane
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The Relief on the Door of the Msho Arakelots Monastery (1134) as a Source for Studying Arms and Armour of Medieval Armenian Warriors
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)Byzantium’s arms and armours were researched by many historians. For that reason, the military history of the medieval Roman Empire enjoyed a dominant position in medieval historiography, with the consequence that very ... -
Byzantine Themes in Polish High School Liberal Arts Education
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)The authors focus how Byzantine motifs are presented in the teaching of humanities subjects. The question of the presence of Byzantine motifs is essentially one about the presence of Byzantine heritage in Polish culture. ... -
Titus Flavius Clemens’ Stance on Wine as Expressed in Paedagogus
; Jagusiak, Krzysztof
; (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)
Titus Flavius Clemens was a philosopher and Christian theologian from the period of the 2nd–3th century. The aim of this paper is to present his view on the subject of wine and his recommendations on wine consumption as ... -
Was Constantine the Great Aware of the Constantinian Shift?
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)In this article, I try to answer the following question: was Constantine himself aware of the revolution that he was carrying out? Did he realise that his actions were going to change the course of the history of the Empire? ... -
Rex or Imperator? Kalojan’s Royal Title in the Correspondence with Innocent III
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)In the correspondence between Innocent III and Kalojan of Bulgaria (1197–1207), the title of the Bulgarian ruler is recorded both as rex and imperator. While the pope consistently employs the title rex, Kalojan refers to ... -
Sergius, the Paulician Leader, in the Account by Peter of Sicily
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)Peter of Sicily, a Byzantine high official from the times of Basil I, intended to warn the Archbishop of Bulgaria against certain heretics, known as the Paulicians, as he learned during his mission to Tefrike about their ... -
Ingvar the Far-Travelled: between the Byzantium and Caucasus. A Maritime Approach to Discussion
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)The Journey to the East of the Viking Ingvar the Far-Traveled is one of the events that fit into the history of medieval relations of the Scandinavians with the world of Byzantium. It was a fateful expedition taking place ... -
The Anti-Bogomil Anathemas in the Synodikon of Tsar Boril and in the Discourse of Kosmas the Presbyter against the Bogomils
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)During the last dеcade the history of the Synodikon of the Оrthodoxy in Medieval Bulgaria has been tackled upon from different points of view. The author of this paper provided substantial evidence proving that the Synodikon ... -
Rumanian Slavia as the Frontier of Orthodoxy. The Case of the Slavo-Rumanian Tetraevangelion of Sibiu
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)At least from the 14th to the 17th c. – beyond their Middle Ages until their Early Modern Ages – the Rumanians belonged to the so-called Slavia Orthodoxa. Besides the Orthodox faith, they had in common with the Orthodox ... -
On (Quasi-)Gnostic Strategies for Overcoming Cognitive Dissonance. The Bulgarian Case
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)The article poses a research question, important not only in the studies on (neo-)gnosticism, concerning the relationship between the gnostic strategies of interpreting the world (and especially its typical rules of ... -
The Old Church Slavonic Version of Epiphanius of Salamis’ Panarion in the Ephraim Kormchaya (the 12TH Century)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)The Panarion treatise is a dogmatic and polemical writing that earned Epiphanius his well-deserved reputation of a zealous defender of the Orthodox faith and a “hunter of heresies”. Its list of heresies was translated into ... -
Saint Methodius: Life and Canonization
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)The article discussed the time and place of the canonization of Methodius and the difference in the treatment he received in the Roman Catholic Church and in the Bulgarian Church. The study highlights the overall distinct ... -
Innocent III and South-eastern Europe: Orthodox, Heterodox, or Heretics?
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)In the beginning of the pontificate of Innocent III (1198–1216) the necessity of creating a large coalition for a better organization of the Fourth Crusade convinced the pope to establish diplomatic relations with Bulgaria ... -
Prolegomena to the Christian Images Not Made by Human Hands
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)Images not made by human hands (acheiropoietai, Gr. ἀχειροποίηταιι) played a significant role in Byzantine spiritual culture and history. This paper discusses the emergence and rise of the acheiropoietai, which represented ... -
Byzantine Rank Hierarchy in the 9th–11th Centuries
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)The aim of the article is to present the Byzantine secular rank hierarchy of the 9th–11th centuries. During the above-mentioned period of time Byzantium knew not one but several distinct, relatively independent official ... -
Catechumens in the East in the Light of Pseudo-epigraphic Normative Church Sources from the 4th Century
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)The article discusses the requirements that 4th-century catechumens in the East were expected to meet. Accordingly, the pseudo-epigraphic Church regulations found in the Canons of Hippolitus and in the Apostolic Constitutions ... -
On the Possibilities of Researching the Marriage Policies of the Rurikids: The Case of Mstislav Fyodor Vladimirovich Monomakhovich
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)The main goal of the article is to present the possibilities and methods of research on the Rurikid’s matrimonial policy in the Middle Ages on the example of a selected group of princes. As the subject of studies were ... -
Circe and Rome. The Origin of the Legend
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)Circe is associated first of all with the episode narrated in the 10th book of the Odyssey, in which she turns Odysseus’s crewmen into pigs using her herbal pharmaka. Odysseus survives due to divine help, his inborn ... -
The First Woman Yamī, Her Origin and Her Status in Indo-Iranian Mythology: Demigoddess or Half-human? (Evidence from R̥gveda 10.10, Iranian Parallels and Greek Relatives)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)This paper focuses on the mythology of Yamī and her twin-brother Yama (the first humans according to Indo-Iranian mythology), their non-human origin and some aspects of Yamī’s behaviour which presumably betray a number of ... -
Electronic Diachronic Corpus and Dictionaries of Old Bulgarian
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)The electronic system histdict is designed as a tool for research, adequate presentation and popularization of a part of Bulgaria’s cultural and historical heritage: the Bulgarian language and its medieval literature. The ...