Studia Ceranea: Ostatnio dodane
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The Image of Caliph ‘Ali in the Chronography of Theophanes
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-12-30)The article is an attempt to analyse the references used in Theophanes’ Chronography regarding the last rightly guided caliph, ‘Ali. Despite the importance that this ruler ultimately acquired in the historiography of Islam, ... -
Beautiful and ‘Fiery in Spirit’? The Complexity of the Image of Emperor Isaac II Angelos in the History by Niketas Choniates
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-12-30)The depiction of Isaac II Angelos in the History of Niketas Choniates, rounded off with the full description of the emperor in the final paragraph of the account on his first reign (1185–1195), is by far the most complex ... -
The Octopus as a Literary Figure in Imperial-Era Literature
Czapińska-Bambara, Marta
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-12-30)
An examination of didactic and scholarly texts composed between the 1st and 3rd centuries CE reveals that the passages concerning the octopus exhibit recurring thematic and structural features. These commonalities suggest ... -
The 722 Slavic Manuscript from the Library of the Romanian Academy in Bucharest and the Polish Chronicle
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2026-04-01)This article is devoted to a brief Cyrillic text, known as “Polish Chronicle”. Presently kept in the library of the Romanian Academy in Bucharest, it was included in a 16th century Tetraevangelium (BAR, Ms. sl. 722). Only ... -
Magic, Demons, and Heretics: Three Puzzling Cases in The Letter of Euthymius of Akmonia
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-12-30)This study explores the theme of magic and demons in the anti-heretical Letter written by Euthymius, an 11th-century monk from the Monastery of Theotokos Perivleptos in Constantinople. The Letter was aimed at his fellow ... -
Gone Like Smoke or Mist – the Beauty and Wonders of Constantinople in Vernacular Laments on its Fall in 1453
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2026-01-07)In this paper, I will focus on the images of Constantinople’s past glory in literary texts written between the fifteenth and seventeenth century in vernacular Greek to express the sorrow after the fall of the City in 1453. ... -
НИКОЛАЙ ХРИСИМОВ, България и европейският Запад през първите десетилетия на IX век [Bulgaria and the European West in the First Decades of the Ninth Century], Изток–Запад, София 2023, pp. 294
Leszka, Mirosław J. (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-23)
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Българска национална история, vol. IV, Византийското владичество и епохата на Второто българско царство (1018 г. – средата на XV в.), ed. П. ПАВЛОВ [The Bulgarian national history, vol. IV, The Byzantine rule and the epoch of the Second Bulgarian Tsardom (1018 – the mid-fifteenth century), ed. P. Pavlov], Абагар, Велико Търново 2023, pp. 727
Leszka, Mirosław J. (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-23)
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The Incantation against Snakebite from Norov’s Psalmbook – Linguistic and Historical Aspects
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-30)The paper explores the linguistic and cultural patterns behind an oral incantation against snakebite that appears on the last page of a Middle Bulgarian book of psalms. The manuscript dates back to the 14th century, and ... -
Il re e le sue lingue. Comunicazione e imperialità / Le roi et ses langues. Communication et impérialité, ed. Fulvio Delle Donne, Benoît Grévin, Basilicata University Press, Potenza 2023 [= Imperialiter, 2], pp. 176, https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-31309-2
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Paul Magdalino, Roman Constantinople in Byzantine Perspective. The Memorial and Aesthetic Rediscovery of Constantine’s Beautiful City, from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance, Brill, Leiden–Boston 2024 [= Brill Research Perspectives in Byzantine Studies, 1], pp. 177, https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004700765
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Toponyms in the Slavonic Excerpt from the Chronicle of Julius Africanus
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-30)For a long time, Julius Africanus’ Chronicle has only been known through hundreds of fragments scattered across Greek, Latin and Oriental (Syriac, Arabic, and Armenian) manuscripts. About fifteen years ago, a long and ... -
Imagining One’s Own Infidel: Balkan Dhimmī Christians in Ottoman Historical Writing until 1600
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-30)Non-Muslim dhimmīs, i.e. Christians and Jews, were an integral part of Ottoman society but left a negligible – and so far, largely neglected – trace in Ottoman (Muslim) historical writing of the fifteenth and the sixteenth ... -
A Sixth-century Story in a Nineth-century Tract? Torna, torna, frater Revisited
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-23)This article focuses on the Latin words torna and frater. According to the accounts of Theophylact Simocatta and Theophanes the Confessor, the words were used by soldiers participating in the Byzantine-Avar war campaign ... -
The Clergy during the Fourth Crusade as Portrayed in Robert of Clari’s Chronicle
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-23)This article deals with the view of clerical participants in the Fourth Crusade found in Robert of Clari’s Old-French chronicle La conquête de Constantinople. The author has analysed the chronicler’s references to members ... -
Merchants in Early Byzantine Hagiographic Texts
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-23)This article deals with accounts devoted to merchants and merchant activity that can be found in hagiographic texts from the early Byzantine era. Such accounts are few and far between, which is surprising, especially when ... -
Civil Authority in the Byzantine Provinces (7th–9th Centuries)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-30)The issue of the rise of the thematic system of administration sparked off an intense debate that has engaged scholars for the past few decades. Those inclined to the view of a one-time reform have argued that the themata ... -
Sardinia and the Byzantine West Paradigm Shifts and Changing Perceptions
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-30)The paper focuses on Sardinia from the fall of Carthage (698) to the rise of its autonomous rulers, the iudikes, in the mid-9th c. During these centuries, the island managed to convey a sense of historical standing between ... -
Representing the altra bilis: The ‘Said’ and ‘Unsaid’ of the Melancholic in Cesare Ripa’s Iconologia
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-23)This article is the third in a series of works which aims to contribute to documenting the influence of the medical theory of individual temperaments, derived from the theory of the four humors, through the major work ... -
The Revolts of the Varangians in Constantinople: Two Incidents at the Palace
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-30)This article deals with the revolts staged by the Varangians at the imperial palace in 1068 and 1078. The first part of the article focuses on the revolt at the beginning of Romanos IV Diogenes’s reign as described by the ...