Studia Ceranea: Ostatnio dodane
Wyświetlanie pozycji 461-471 z 471
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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 ... -
The Perfect Ruler in the Art and Literature of Medieval Bulgaria
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2011)The paper is an attempt to provide some information about the concept of the perfect ruler, as saved in the literature and the fine arts of the medieval Bulgaria, and which are related to the name of the king Ivan Alexander. ... -
The Monk versus the Philosopher: From the History of the Bulgarian-Byzantine War 894–896
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2011)The article is devoted to a few problems: 1. how Symeon and Leo the Philosopher looked at the Bulgarian-Byzantine war of 894–896; 2. what place it took in their life ex- periences; 3. how it was inscribed in the concept ... -
John Chrysostom’s Tale on How Michael Vanquished Satanael – a Bogomil text?
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2011)The study is an attempt at a comparative analysis of two pseudo-canonical texts: the Slavic Homily of John Chrysostom on How Michael Vanquished Satanael (in two versions) and the Greek Λόγος τοῠ ἀρχηστρατήγου Μιχαήλ, ὃταν ... -
A Lost Byzantine Chronicle in Slavic Translation
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2011)Until recently the so-called Slavic version of the Chronicle of George Synkellos has not been paid proper attention. The attribution of Vasilij Istrin who in the beginning of the 20th c. identified the Slavic text as a ... -
The First Witnesses. Martha, Longinus and Veronica in the Slavic Manuscript Tradition (Initial Observations)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2011)The epithet ‘first witnesses’, conferred on the three saints in the title, is but a conventional designation; it seems fitting as common for the figures of saints, who gave proof of their devotion to Christ. Otherwise, ...