Studia Ceranea: Ostatnio dodane
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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 ... -
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 ... -
Fund Collection through Litigation by the State Treasury in the Roman Empire (with Special Reference to the First Three Centuries A.D.)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2012)The paper discusses the confiscation of property (publicatio bonorum) as a source of revenue for the fiscus in ancient Rome. The term fiscus means, among other things, the public property, State funds, but also the private ... -
Peculatus – Several Remarks on the Classification of the Offence of Embezzlement of Public Funds in Roman Law
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2012)The offence of embezzlement of public funds – peculatus – is an interesting research subject due to the Roman legislator’s original approach to the issue of the classification of types of criminal offences (crimina). The ... -
Book Reviews: Анна-Мария Тотоманова, Из историята на българския език [Из истории болгарского языка], Издателство ПАН Пъблишинг Къмпани ОО Д, София 2009, c. 334.
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Book Reviews: Rafał Kosiński, The Emperor Zeno Religion and Politics, Towarzystwo Wydawnicze „Historia Iagellonica”, Cracow 2010, pp. 289 [= Byzantina et Slavica Cracoviensia, 6].
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Taxes in the Mediterranean. Ancient Roman Perspective. Preface
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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.
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Book Reviews: Konstantynopol – Nowy Rzym. Miasto i ludzie w okresie wczesnobizantyńskim [Constantinople – New Rome. The City and the People in the Early Byzantine Period], ed. M. J. Leszka, T. Wolińska, WN PWN, Warszawa 2011, pp. 751.
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Book Reviews: Uczniowie Apostołów Słowian. Siedmiu Świętych Mężów [Disciples of the Apostles of the Slavs. The Seven Holy Men], ed. Małgorzata Skowronek, Georgi Minczew, Collegium Columbinum Cracoviae, Kraków 2010, pp. 216 [= Biblioteka duchowości europejskiej, 4].
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Book Reviews: Urszula Wójcicka, Literatura staroruska z elementami historii i kultury dawnej Rusi [Древнерусская литература с элементами истории и культуры Древней Руси], Bydgoszcz 2010, pp. 368.
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Book Reviews: Andrej Škoviera, Svätí slovanskí sedmopočetníci [The Seven Slavic Saints], Slovenský komitét slavistov, Slavistický ústav Jána Stanislava SAV, Bratislava 2010, pp. 247.
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Book Reviews: Иван Божилов, Анна-Мария Тотоманова, Иван Билярски, Борилов Синодик. Издание и превод [Boril’s Synodicon. Edition and Translation], София 2010, pp. 386 [= История и книжнина].
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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].
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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 ... -
Tsar Samuel Against Emperor Basil II: Why Did Bulgaria Loose the Battle with the Byzantine Empire at the Beginning of the 11th Century
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2011)At the beginning of the 11th century, after decades of almost incessant wars with the Byzantine Empire, the Bulgarian state lost its political independence. In many research works on the period in question there is emphasis ... -
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. ... -
Notes on the Cult of the Fifteen Tiberioupolitan Martyrs in Medieval Bulgaria
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2011)The cult of the fifteen Tiberioupolitan martyrs is one of the most intriguing cults in medieval Bulgaria. There are, however, a lot of questions about this cult, some of which I address in this paper. The earliest evidence ... -
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 ...