Studia Ceranea: Recent submissions
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Book Reviews: ЛЪЧЕЗАР ПЕРЧЕКЛИЙСКИ, Ахтаровият царственик от 1844 година. Текст и изследване [Ahtarovyiat Tsarstvenik. Text and research], Болид-инс, София 2013, pp. 184.
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Pro Bessarione poeta
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015)This article discusses the relatively unknown poetry of Bessarion, the future Cardinal. The author argues with a negative opinion of F. M. Pontani concerning the three epicedia on the death of Theodora Comnena. The author ... -
The Image of the Town: Medieval Sofia in Original Bulgarian Works from the 16th Century
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015)The paper follows out the way of denomination and description of Sofia town in manuscripts from different genre during the period of the 15th –17th centuries, namely: the original hagiographic and hymnographic works of ... -
O „русизмах” Берлинского сборника
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015)About “russicisms” of Berlinski Sbornik. The article deals with the problem of the so-called “eastslavonic influence” on southslavonic literature in 12th–13th centuries. The idea, based on claims that some Bulgarian and ... -
Transition from the Temple of Jupiter to the Great Mosque of Damascus in Architecture and Design
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015)Great Mosque of Damascus was built between 705 and 715 by the Umayyad Caliph al-Walid I. However, the origins of this building dates to the distant past. At first it was a location of an ancient Aramaean temple dedicated ... -
Monarchs’ Names and Numbering in the Second Bulgarian State
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015)The article explores the onomastic practices of medieval Bulgarians, focusing on the Second Bulgarian State, from the late 12th to the early 15th century. The collected evidence suggests that soon after their conversion ... -
The Christian Nubia and the Arabs
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015)Nubia constituted the area in the Nile Valley in the present day Sudan, the area which spread from the first cataract up to the place where the White Nile meets the Blue Nile. The area was inhabited by the population ... -
The Exiled Bishops of Constantinople from the Fourth to the Late Sixth Century
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015)A number of cases of the bishops of Constantinople exiled over a period until as late as the close of the 6th century prove the fact that the rulers would always make an effort to remove the deposed bishops from the City, ... -
Gnesioi filoi: the Search for George Syncellus’ and Theophanes the Confessor’s Own Words, and the Authorship of Their Oeuvre
Kompa, Andrzej
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015)
In a nutshell: 1. I believe that Ekloge Chronographias of George Syncellus and Chronographia of Theophanes the Confessor should be treated as a single project, undertaken in turn by two authors; 2. There are important ... -
Словник Исторической Палеи по списку синодального собрания № 591 второй половины ХV века – глоттометрическая характеристика
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015)Towards a glottometric analysis of the vocabulary of the Historical Palaea. The present study is an attempt to apply statistical methods in investigating the vocabulary of Old Bulgarian on the basis of lexical material ... -
Prisoners of War in Early Medieval Bulgaria (Preliminary Remarks)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015)The work is concentrated on the problem of war prisoners in the chronological period of the existance of the so-called First Bulgarian state. The analysis is based predominantly on various Byzantine and selected Latin ... -
The Iconographic Motif of a Griffin and a Hare on the So-called Saracenic-Sicilian Casket from the Wawel Cathedral Treasury in Cracow
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015)The article examines a kind of community of aesthetic tastes that was connecting Arab and Byzantine courtly culture. This community concerned the secular and luxurious works of art. The silver casket, called a ... -
Wisdom Has Built Her House (Proverbs 9, 1–6). The History of the Notion in Southern and Eastern Slavic Art in the 14th–16th Centuries
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015)"Sophia’s banquet (Divine Wisdom’s banquet)" – this type of iconography is an illustration of a specific passage of the ninth chapter of the Old Testament "Book of Proverbs: Wisdom hath built herself a house" (Prov 9, ... -
Marriage and Power (Images of Authority)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015)This article is devoted to the question concerning the conceptualization of power and its religious basis in pre-modern societies, carried out through a study of the inauguration rituals – especially the marriage – that ... -
Плач Адама и «адамический текст» в древнеславянской рукописной традиции
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2014)Apocryphal stories of Adam related to the subjects of the Paradise lost, Adam’s repentance and expulsion from Eden, life of Adam and Eve after the expulsion, the manuscript that Adam gave to Satan, the Holy Cross story ... -
Народные и апокрифические мотивы рождественского цикла, отраженные в углянских рукописях второй половины XVII века
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2014)This paper deals with Apocryphas of the nativity cycle, particularly motives of the Three Wise Men arriving, which includes Afroditian’s legend as well, in cultural context of Transcarpatia, which is a border area between ... -
Несколько замечаний о необычной славянской редакции Видения апостола Павла из рукописных cобраний в Польше
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2014)The apocryphal Apocalypse of St. Paul the Apostle belongs to the group of early-Christian texts which exerted significant impact on people’s perception of the nether world and the Last Judgment. In the Middle Ages, the ... -
Kalin Yanakiev as a Writer of Apocrypha? Remarks on the Essay Дебат върху теодицеята (A Debate on Theodicy)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2014)The article engages with the philosophical and theological notion of theodicy as formulated by Kalin Yanakiev in Дебат върху теодицеята (A Debate on Theodicy), an essay which appeared in Yanakiev’s book Философски опити ... -
On Medieval Storytelling. The Story of Melchizedek in Certain Slavonic Texts (Palaea Historica and the Apocryphal Cycle of Abraham)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2014)The article analyses the story of the prophet-king Melchizedek (mentioned in Gen 14,17–20, Ps 110,4 and three passages in Heb: 5,6–10, 6,20, 7,1–17), recorded in Slavonic historical texts: the first and second translation ...