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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Book Reviews: Rafał Kosiński, The Emperor Zeno Religion and Politics, Towarzystwo Wydawnicze „Historia Iagellonica”, Cracow 2010, pp. 289 [= Byzantina et Slavica Cracoviensia, 6].
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2011)
Book Reviews: Konstantynopol – Nowy Rzym. Miasto i ludzie w okresie wczesnobizantyńskim [Constantinople – New Rome. The City and the People in the Early Byzantine Period], ed. M. J. Leszka, T. Wolińska, WN PWN, Warszawa 2011, pp. 751.
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2011)
The Porphyry Column in Constantinople and the Relics of the True Cross
Bralewski, Sławomir 
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2011)
(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 ...
Book Reviews: Urszula Wójcicka, Literatura staroruska z elementami historii i kultury dawnej Rusi [Древнерусская литература с элементами истории и культуры Древней Руси], Bydgoszcz 2010, pp. 368.
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2011)
Kandaulos: the Testimony of Select Sources
Kokoszko, Maciej ; (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2011)
; (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. ...