Browsing Studia Ceranea Vol. 7/2017 by Issue Date
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A Few Remarks on the Ransom Paid for Releasing Captives in Selected Early Byzantine Hagiographic Texts
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The article analyzes certain early Byzantine hagiographic texts concerning various forms of brigandage (both maritime and land-based). Two such accounts are studied in detail, one by Gerontius of Jerusalem and another by ... -
A Note on the Adoption of the Byzantine Models in Medieval Bulgaria (9th–10th Centuries). The Case with the Chrysorrhoas Collection
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The paper aims at examining the first Slavic collection of homilies of John Chrysostom, called Zlatostruy (i.e. Chrysorrhoas or Golden Stream). The peculiarities of its content, compilation strategy and impact on the ... -
The Layers of Composition of the Synodikon of Alexius Studites
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The Synodikon of Orthodoxy, in its earliest version (Synodikon of Alexius Studites), has at least five different layers of composition. Beside the original one of 843/844, there is one after 845, another after 870, a fourth ... -
Languages and Their Registers in Medieval Croatian Culture
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The linguistic situation in medieval Croatia was fairly dynamic. The present article discusses the stratification of linguistic culture in the Middle Ages as regards its division into the three registers (high, middle, ... -
Food of Plant Origin in the Life of Early Medieval Bulgarians (End of 7th – Beginning of 11th Century)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The article surveys the available data on food of plant origin used in the period of the First Bulgarian Empire. The information is based on written sources and paleobotanical data, which show the presence of diverse plants ... -
The Trisagion Riots (512) as an Example of Interaction between Politics and Liturgy
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)This article explores the political and cultural context of the riots provoked by changes in the Trisagion (512). Along with the advancing integration of the Byzantine Empire with Christianity, the state’s interest in ... -
The Byzantine Office of Ἐπὶ τῶν κρίσεων and Its Holders (in the Light of Sphragistic Evidence and Written Sources)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The paper investigates the establishment of the office of the epi ton kriseon during the Reign of emperor Constantine IX Monomachos (1042–1055), analysing the reasons behind its creation and its initial character. In ... -
Paulicians Between the Dogme and the Legend
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The paper compares how Paulicians were described in different types of medieval Slavonic sources by using the approach of the linguistic and culturological conceptualization of the alterity. By means of linguistic analysis, ... -
The Synodikon of Orthodoxy in Medieval Bulgaria
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The paper compares the content and the structure of the three extant South Slavonic Synodika: Boril’s Synodikon as preserved in the so-called Palauzov copy of the 14th century (НБКМ № 289); Drinov’s Synodikon (НБКМ № 432), ... -
Matej Gogola, Mandylion z Edessy. Rukou-nestvorený obraz a jeho miesto v byzantskom umení a duchovnej kultúre
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On the Reliability of Constantine Porphyrogenitus’ Account of the “Flight” of Prince Časlav from Bulgaria
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The present text aims to reflect on the reliability of Constantine Porphyrogenitus’ account about the departure of Časlav, a Serbian prince, from Bulgaria at the beginning of the reign of Peter I, the successor of Symeon. ... -
Τεοφύλακτος Σιμοκάττης, Οικουμενικὴ ἱστορία / Teofilakt Simokatta, Historia powszechna, przekład, wstęp, komentarz i indeksy Anna Kotłowska, Łukasz Różycki
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Marcin Böhm, Rola flot obcych w procesie ostatecznego rozkładu sił morskich cesarstwa bizantyńskiego (1118–1204)
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The Pious Life of Empress Helena, Constantine the Great’s Mother, in the Light of Socrates of Constantinople and Sozomen
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)In his Ecclesiastical history, Socrates depicts Helena as a pious, strong and independent woman, the mother of the emperor, realizing her own ideas and acting as a tool in the hands of God – the ultimate inspiration of her ... -
The Chickpea (ἐρέβινϑος; Cicer arietinum L) as a Medicinal Foodstuff and Medicine in Selected Greek Medical Writings
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)Leguminous plants were a crucially important element in the Mediterranean diet, and, as such, these plants were second only to cereals. It is also important to note that according to medical writings preserved from antiquity ... -
АНЕТА ДИМИТРОВА, Златоструят в преводаческата дейност на старобългарските книжовници
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A Note on the Balto-Slavic and Indo-European Background of the Proto-Slavic Adjective *svętъ ‘Holy’
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The standard etymological explanation of the Proto-Slavic adjective *svętъ ‘holy, saint’ – a word of extreme literary, cultural and religious importance in the Slavic world – concentrates on the formal match with Lithuanian ... -
Zofia Rzeźnicka, Maciej Kokoszko, Ab ovo ad γάλα. Jajka, mleko i produkty mleczne w medycynie i w sztuce kulinarnej (I–VIII)
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