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Aconite – a Poison, or a Medicine? Ancient and Early Byzantine Testimonies
Jagusiak, Krzysztof
; (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-28)
Aconite (Aconitum napellus) was one of the most notorious, poisonous plants in the ancient world. Its dangerous, lethal power – present in leaves, roots, stem, and tuber – was well known to the Greeks and the Romans from ... -
The Attack of the Rus’ on Constantinople in the Light of the Chronicon Bruxellense
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-28)The Chronicon Bruxellense does not simply provide useful information on the date of the date (year, month, and day) of the Rus’ attack on the Constantinople (18 June 860), but is crucial for a deeper understanding of nature ... -
Bulgarians, Cumans, Teutons, and Vlachs in the First Decades of the Thirteenth Century
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-10-12)The article refers to some aspects of the history of today’s Bulgarian and Romanian territories, going back to the end of the 12th and the beginning of the 13th century. First, the author emphasizes the impact of the ... -
Byzantine Incubation Literature between Religion and Medicine: Food as Medicament in the Collection of Healing Miracles Performed by Saints Cosmas and Damian (BHG 373B)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-21)Byzantine incubation literature is the term used in research to denote early Byzantine collections of healing miracles (5th–7th century) in which the saint’s miraculous intervention is related to the incubation experience. ... -
The Chieftains of the Eastern Roman Empire in Light of the Chronicle of Marcellinus Comes
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-21)It is clear that while Chronicle of Marcellinus Comes belongs to most important works from the 6th century, there is significant problem with indicating his personal attitude towards the discussed characters and the described ... -
The Competition for Cumania between Hungary and Bulgaria (1211–1247)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-28)Because the alliance between the Cumans and Bulgaria was a danger both for Hungary and the Latin Empire, it was preferable for Hungary to extend its domination over Cumania. The Teutonic knights were settled in south-eastern ... -
Cook (mageiros) in Byzantium. Was there any Female mageiros?
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-30)The paper studies terms describing cooks and cooking activities that are preserved in Byzantine literature and draw their origins from the ancient Greek literature as well as from biblical and theological texts. Despite ... -
Cyril of Scythopolis on Relieving the Damage in Palestine Inflicted during the Samaritan Revolt (529–531)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-30)The text analyses a short account by Cyril of Scythopolis concerning the imperial decision to finance the repair of the damages caused in Palestine by the Samaritan uprising of 529–531. A description of the alleged ... -
Disease, Healing and Medical Knowledge in an Old Bulgarian Collection of Miracle Stories
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-30)The Old Bulgarian hagiographical collection of miracle stories, named A Tale of the Iron Cross, is relatively well known among the scholars, but a sufficient number of its details still has not been studied properly. In ... -
The Distant Origins of “Fat Shaming” or why the People of Antiquity did not Ridicule Fat Women
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-30)The phenomenon of “fat shaming” (in particular with its aspect of the especially harsh criticism of the corpulence in young adult women) seems nearly non-existent in the ancient Classical literature. The extant satirical ... -
The Doctrine of the Ordo Sclavoniae in Light of Western Sources and the Issue of the Origins of the Dualist Heresy in Bosnia
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-10-12)The issue of the Bosnian church – or more precisely the dualist heresy in Bosnia – has caused serious controversies among scholars since the 19th century. The main aim of this paper is to shed new light on this controversial ... -
Future Constructions in the Medieval South Slavonic Translations of Vita Antonii Magni
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-28)This paper aims at systemising the observations on the constructions used for expressing Future tense in the three known Old Slavonic translations of Vita Antonii Magni by Athansius Alexandrinus. The text was first translated ... -
Gnesioi filoi: George Syncellus and Theophanes the Confessor – Addenda
Kompa, Andrzej (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-30)
The paper provides the addenda to A. Kompa, Gnesioi filoi: the search for George Syncellus’ and Theophanes the Confessor’s own words, and the authorship of their oeuvre, Studia Ceranea 5, 2015, p. 155–230. All the expressions ... -
Hare in Sauce According to Anthimus’ Recipe: Meat
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-10-12)The present article examines the beginning of the recipe for hare meat (leporis vero si novellae […]) preserved in Chapter 13 of the dietetic treatise De observatione ciborum written in the first half of the 6th cent. by ... -
Ideology behind the Naming: On the Origin of Basil II’s Appellation ‘Scythicus’
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-10-12)The paper examines the terminology used by the Byzantine authors of the 10th and 11th century as regards the Samuel’s State, which was largely shaped by the Byzantine ideology and momentary aim of the political propaganda. ... -
The Indian River that Flows from Paradise
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-28)In the Jewish Antiquities (I, 1, 3), when paraphrasing the passage of Genesis 2, 10–15, Flavius Josephus notes that the four rivers springing in paradise are the Phison (Φεισὼν), which passes through India and is called ... -
Iustitia and Corruptio in Liber Constitutionum sive Lex Gundobada
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-30)After 476, Flavius Gundobadus, King of the Burgundians (473–516), sought ways and means to consolidate and strengthen his power, including through legal regulation of the relations between the Burgundians themselves, on ... -
Jan Prostko-Prostyński, A History of the Herules, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, Poznań 2020 [= Historia, 244], pp. 196.
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The Legal and Fiscal Situation of the Serbs in the Patriarchate of Peć during the First Decades of the 18th Century
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-28)In the early modern era, the Serbs who lived in the Balkan Peninsula under Ottoman rule formed what was known as a millet. From 1557, their leader was the head of the Patriarchate of Peć, whose jurisdiction and scope of ... -
Marcellinus Comes on Emperor Anastasius A Handful of Remarks
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-10-12)Anastasius was for Marcellinus not only a historical figure, but a ruler whose reign he was first able to observe from the perspective of his native Illyricum, and later as an inhabitant of Constantinople. The dominant ...