Studia Ceranea: Ostatnio dodane
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Treatise "De Administrando Imperio" by Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus: Date of the Paris. gr. 2009 Copy, Years of Compiling of the Original Codex, and a Hypothesis about the Number of Authors
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)The article proposes a new version of the history of the famous Byzantine political treatise De Administrando Imperio. The text of this treatise was written after 952 and before November 959 personally by Emperor Constantine ... -
Continuity between Early Paulicianism and the Seventeenth-Century Bulgarian Paulicians: the Paulician Legend of Rome and the Ritual of the Baptism by Fire
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)During the Middle Ages two dualistic communities were active in Bulgaria and Bulgarian lands – Bogomils and Paulicians. Paulicians, unlike Bogomils, survived as a separate religious sect up to the 17th century, when most ... -
Wine and Myrrh as Medicaments or a Commentary on Some Aspects of Ancient and Byzantine Mediterranean Society
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)The present study has resulted from a close reading of prescriptions for therapeutic wines inserted in book V of De materia medica by Pedanius Dioscorides, the eminent expert in materia medica of the 1st century A.D. The ... -
Money in the Apophthegmata Patrum
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)The objective of this paper is to discuss accounts related to money in Apophthegmata Patrum, a collection of sayings attributed to famous Egyptian monks. The collection as we know it was produced in the 6th century. By ... -
The Arabs in the Chronicle of Constantine Manasses
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)This paper looks into the piece by Constantine Manasses considering how it depicts the Arabs. It appears Manasses saw the Arabs primarily as bloody and cruel plunderers who invaded the Byzantine lands. Indeed, they won ... -
The Political Ambitions of Serbian Patriarch Arsenije IV Jovanović Šakabenta
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)Arsenije IV Jovanović Šakabenta (1698–1748) was one of the last leaders of the Peć Patriarchate. The period of his service coincided with the so-called Second Great Migration of the Serbs, i.e. the migration of portions ... -
Love and Theatre in the Works of Nikephoros Basilakes
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)The article analyzes the rhetorical output of Nikephoros Basilakes, focusing on his use of scenic terminology and the psychological interpretation of myths. The conclusions substantiate the theory that Nikephoros had been ... -
Vignette of Constantinople on the "Tabula Peutingerianana". The Column of Constantine or the Lighthouse
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)The article contains the analyses of 40 descriptions of the vignette of Constantinople in Tabula Peutingeriana created between the years 1768 and 2018. The number of these descriptions is not at all complete, however, it ... -
Time as a Dimension of Byzantine Identity
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)The notion of identity (tautotes) was discussed, often in contrast to its opposite “otherness” (heterotes), not only during Classical Antiquity but also by Christian and Byzantine authors since Late Antiquity. Fundamental ... -
On the Origins of Komitats in the First Bulgarian Empire
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)The article gives a critical review of previous views on the origin of komitats as administrative units in the Early Medieval Bulgarian State. Among the Bulgarian researchers, the opinion of their Byzantine origin prevailed, ... -
Emperor Basil II and the Awarding of Byzantine Honorific Titles to Bulgarians in the Course of the Conquest of Bulgaria (976–1018)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)This article examines the question about the policy of honouring members of the Bulgarian imperial family and Bulgarian aristocracy with Byzantine honorific titles pursued by Emperor Basil II Boulgaroktonos (976–1025) in ... -
Double Translations as a Characteristic Feature of the Old Church Slavonic Translation of John Chrysostom’s "Commentaries on Acts"
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)The Old Church Slavonic translation of John Chrysostom’s commentaries on Acts of the Apostles (CPG 4426) is attested in 18 ethica and fragments included in the Old Bulgarian collection Zlatostruy from the early 10th-century ... -
The Image of Muhammad in Riccoldo da Monte di Croce’s "Contra legem Sarracenorum"
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)Contra legem Sarracenorum written by the Dominican Riccoldo da Monte di Croce was considered one of the most influential medieval Christian anti-Islamic polemics. The treatise was devoted to criticism of the Quran, which ... -
Who Could ‘the Godless Ishmaelites from the Yathrib Desert’ Be to the Author of the Novgorod First Chronicle? The "Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius" in Medieval South and East Slavic Literatures
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)The work of Pseudo-Methodius, whose creation (in the original Syrian version) dates back to ca. 690, enjoyed considerable popularity in Medieval Slavic literatures. It was translated into Church Slavic thrice. In all ... -
The History of the Remains of the Roman Emperor, Julian the Apostate
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)Julian (Flavius Claudius Iulianus), called the Apostate, Roman emperor in the years 361–363, was one of the most intriguing rulers. From antiquity to the present day he invariably aroused great interest, both during his ... -
Dynasticity in the Second Bulgarian Tsardom and its Manifestations in Medieval History Writing
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)Analyzing various medieval Bulgarian hagiographical texts, inscriptions and marginal notes, as well as the Synodicon of the Bulgarian church and other evidence, the author aims to reveal the dynastic concepts of the second ... -
Nations and Minorities in Psellos’ "Chronographia" (976–1078)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)The Chronographia of Michael Psellos (1018–1081) reveals a limited interest in nations and minorities within and without the Byzantine Empire. He had access to information about these peoples either indirectly (1018–1042) ... -
The Family Strategy for Purple – Comparing the Methods of Andronikos I and Alexios I Komnenos of Constructing Imperial Power
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)In this paper I would like to concentrate on strategies and methods that were guiding Alexios I and Andronikos I of the Komnenos dynasty during the process of gaining and consolidating their power in the Byzantine Empire. ... -
Reading and Annotating Galen between 1515–1531: on some Latin Galen Editions in the Library of the Carmelites in Cracow
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)Copies of early-printed books have been of interest to to-day’s collectors and researchers not only for their material aspects (names of publishers and places of printing, fonts and composition, number of known copies ... -
Understanding the Use of Byzantine Routes in Central Anatolia (ca. 7TH–9TH Centuries)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)This paper mainly focuses on the impact of the change in the political equilibrium in the East caused by the effects of the Arab invasions on the main communication routes in Byzantine Central Anatolia. Beginning in the ...