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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. ...
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: 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)
Book Reviews: Apokryfy syryjskie. Historia i przysłowia Achikara. Grota skarbów. Apokalipsa Pseudo-Metodego [Syriac Apocrypha. The Story of Aquihar. The Cave of Treasures. Pseudo-Methodius’ Apocalypsis], trans. A. Tronina, ed. A. Tronina, M. Starowieyski, Wydawnictwo WAM, Kraków 2011, pp. 264 [= Pisma apokryficzne, Series, 6].
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2011)
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, ...
Book Reviews: Анна-Мария Тотоманова, Из историята на българския език [Из истории болгарского языка], Издателство ПАН Пъблишинг Къмпани ОО Д, София 2009, c. 334.
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2011)
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 ...
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)