Studia Ceranea: Recent submissions
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4th-Century Orations on Farming: The Case of Themistius and Libanius
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-30)The paper analyses two rhetorical texts from the 4th century – one by Themistius, found in the corpus of his so-called private speeches, titled Should one engage in agriculture (Θέσις εἰ γεωργητέον), and another by Libanius ... -
Garum, Fish Blood Taboos in the Judaeo-Christian World and the Evolving Nature of Ancient Fish Sauce
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-23)Der Verzehr einer fermentierten Fischsoße erscheint in allen Gesellschaftsschichten als grundlegender Bestandteil der römischen und griechischen Küche und war, was die Verbreitung von Amphoren betrifft, in allen Regionen ... -
Ambroise Paré and Laurent Joubert, Knowledge and Beliefs about Pregnancy in 16th Century France
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-23)Our article is devoted to the science of female anatomy in the 16th century, particularly the practices and beliefs related to pregnancy and childbirth. We analysed the academic discourse presented in the Œuvres of Ambroise ... -
Byzantine Reconquista (10th–11th Centuries) and the Attacks on Christians in the Lands of Islam (Egypt, Syria and Iraq)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-30)The paper discusses a wave of attacks on Christians in the lands of Islam that accompanied Byzantine victories on the battlefield in 10th–11th centuries, including pogroms and attacks in the capital of Egypt, Antioch, ... -
Taxonomy of Patience in Sixteenth-century Florentine Political Thought
Czapińska-Bambara, Marta
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-23)
This article examines the concept of pazienza present in the writings of Machiavelli and Guicciardini. It turned out that it is closely related to key concepts for their considerations, such as Fortune, Time or Opportunity, ... -
The Theme of the First Muslim Women in Chronographia of Theophanes the Confessor
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-30)This article concerns itself with a small fragment of Chronographia by Theophanes the Confessor. The fragment is devoted to the role of women in the rise and spread of Islam. Although generally considered to express ... -
“The Unbroken Fellowship” What Did Khan Boris and Empress Theodora Agree upon?
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-30)This article presents a novel hypothesis regarding the events surrounding the Christianization of Khan Boris of Bulgaria. The author proposes the possibility of a marriage between Empress Theodora and Khan Boris, primarily ... -
Peaches at Medieval Site Ras, Serbia: Unraveling Routes of Introduction and Local Cultivation in the Balkans
; Jagusiak, Krzysztof; (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-30)
The study combines archaeological evidence, written sources, and genetic studies to trace the routes of peach introduction to the Balkans and explore the local cultivation practices and it revisits the discovery of peach ... -
Mars Pater – in the Strategy of Constantine the Great
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-23)During his reign Constantine the Great sought protection of various gods, finally choosing the Christian God as his main protector. The iconographic material gathered from the mints remaining under his power in the early ... -
The Byzantine East and Bulgaria – The Eastern Armies of Byzantium in the Wars Against the First Bulgarian Empire (680–1018)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-23)This article deals with the engagement of the Byzantine eastern troops in the wars the empire waged against Bulgaria from the late seventh until the early eleventh centuries. To this end, both narrative and sphragistic ... -
Sweet and Salty Recipes: Some Examples from the Muslim and Byzantine Culinary and Medicinal Common Tradition
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-30)This paper discusses the use of salt, vinegar, honey, and sugar in some Byzantine and Arabic-Islamic recipes in cooking and pastry-making as well as for food preservation and in medical preparations. It draws mostly on ... -
The Short Redaction of Joannes Zonaras’ Ἐπιτομὴ Ἱστοριῶν in the Slavonic Manuscript Tradition
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-30)The paper will focus on the four known Slavic witnesses of the so-called short redaction of Zonaras’ Chronicle and will try to explore its provenance and development. The conclusions will be based on the comparison of the ... -
Essence and Ways of Infiltration of the Paulician Heresy in the Medieval Bulgarian Lands
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-30)Paulicianism in Bulgaria has its origins in the forced resettlement of Paulicians from Asia Minor and the eastern regions of the empire to Northern Thrace by the authorities of the Eastern Roman Empire in the 8th–10th ... -
Interlinear and Marginal Glosses in the Athonite Translation of John Chrysostom’s De Statuis
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-30)According to a colophon in manuscript RM 3/6 from the Rila Monastery, a complete Slavonic translation of John Chrysostom’s Homilies on the Statues was made on Mount Athos by the Serbian monk Antonije and copied by Vladislav ... -
The Vandal habrosýne and its Significance in Procopius’ Narrative on the Rise and Fall of the Vandal State
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-23)The description of the Vandals’ habrosýne (Procopius, De bellis, IV, 6, 5–9) apparently fit in with the topos of “a nation once valiant who, living among the luxuries, succumbed to effeminacy”, which had been present in ... -
Eastern Elements in Cathar Doctrines – an Argument for the Traditional Interpretation of Catharism
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-30)At present we can observe intense attempts at overthrowing all the claims concerning Catharism that had been formulated by the scholars of the 20th century, based on careful analysis of the vast source material. So called ... -
In memoriam Mirosław Jerzy Leszka (1963–2024)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-30) -
ПРЕДРАГ КОМАТИНА, "Константин Порфирогенит и рана историја јужних Словена, уредник Љ. МАКСИМОВИЋ" [Predrag Komatina, "Constantine Porphyrogenitus and the Early History of South Slavs", ed. L. Maksimović], Византолошки институт САНУ, Београд 2021 [= Византолош
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-21) -
Old Church Slavonic Heritage in Slavonic and Other Languages, ed. Ilona Janyškova, Helena Karlikova, Vit Boček, Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, Praha 2021 [= Studia etymologica Brunensia, 25], p. 340
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-06)