Przeglądaj Studia Ceranea Vol. 13/2023 według tytułu
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Authenticity of the “Interrogatio” Iohannis in the Light of Contemporary Deconstructionist Source Criticism
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-30)Scholars of Catharism representing the deconstructionist current in the recent years continue their struggle with the traditional interpretation of this heresy which underlines its dualistic character and strong connections ... -
Ágnes Kriza, Depicting Orthodoxy in the Russian Middle Ages. The Novgorod Icon of Sophia, the Divine Wisdom, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2022 [= Oxford Studies in Byzantium], pp. 362
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Bankers and Usurers in the Early Byzantine Hagiographical Texts
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-21)The text discusses accounts from early Byzantine hagiographical texts depicting the activities of bankers and usurers in the period from the early 5th to the second decade of the 7th century. Texts by Palladius of Helenopolis, ... -
Basil I’s Path to Power according to the Vita Basilii as a Heroic Myth
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-10-13)This paper aims to illustrate how the tradition of Basil I’s rise to power in the Vita Basilii includes elements typical of heroic myths, according to Joseph Campbell’s monomyth scheme. The study presented here will examine ... -
Between Rus’, Byzantium, and the Nomads Tmutarakan’ in the Narrative of the Rusian “Primary Chronicle”
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-30)The article is an attempt to provide a source analysis of the mentions of Tmutarakan’ contained in the Primary Chronicle – the oldest surviving monument of medieval Rusian historiography. In the text, particular emphasis ... -
The Birth of the Myth About the Byzantine-Bulgarian War of 863
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-30)The Byzantine-Bulgarian relationship from the mid-9th to the early 10th century has attracted the attention of historians for years. However, this topic is fraught with multiple myths and misconceptions. The Byzantine ... -
Church Architecture in Southwestern Bulgaria in the Late 9th – Early 11th Century (Based on Archaeological Data)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-30)This publication is devoted to the church architecture in Southwestern Bulgaria (now Blagoevgrad region) during the First Bulgarian Tsardom, in the period from the end of the 9th to the beginning of the 11th century. From ... -
The Clergy during the Fourth Crusade as Portrayed in Geoffrey de Villehardouin’s Chronicle
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-10-13)An article analysing information about the clerics during the Fourth Crusade mentioned by the chronicler of this expedition, Geoffrey of Villehardouin († c. 1219), in the Old French chronicle La conquête de Constantinople. ... -
A Contribution to the History of Repentance Prayers in the Slavic South during the 15th Century
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-30)The article explores and offers a diplomatic edition of A Very Useful Confession for Unction for Every Christian, for the Black and White Clergy. This is an autograph by Vladislav the Grammarian placed in the Trebnik of ... -
Diana Mishkova, Rival Byzantiums. Empire and Identity in Southeastern Europe, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2023, pp. X, 357
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Dominika Gapska, "Woman. Church. State. Cults of the Female Saints in the Writings of Serbian Orthodox Church", Scriptym, Cracow 2021, pp. 208
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Epistle on the Celebration of Easter (CPG 4612): Transmission and Context of the Slavonic Version in the Late 15th–16th Centuries
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-30)This article examines the Slavonic version of the Epistle on the Celebration of Easter (CPG 4612) by focusing on the issues of transmission and context. It begins with a brief overview of the manuscript tradition and the ... -
“Ex Marte se procreatum” – Did the Roman Emperor Galerius Make Mars his Personal Protective Deitie?
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-07)Lactantius referred in his work On the Deaths of the Persecutors (De mortibus persecutorum) to a great victory which Caesar Galerius won over the Persians. From then on, he demanded for himself the title of Augustus and, ... -
Female Monastic Patronage in Medieval Georgia: Queen Tamar and Her Monastery in Tighva
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-30)Tighva Monastery was founded by Queen Consort Tamar, the daughter of David the Builder, a famous Georgian king who succeeded in uniting the country and making it a dominant regional power. According to the written sources, ... -
Food for Life: Galen’s "On Health" ("De sanitate tuenda")
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-30)In Galen’s view, health was a natural state and disease unnatural. If a body became unwell, balance was best restored by adjustments to daily life, in particular to the environment, food and drink, exercise, sleep, ... -
Garum or Grain? Crimea and the Provisioning of Constantinople (7th to 9th centuries)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-30)Historians have relied for too long on written sources (the letters that Pope Martin I wrote from Cherson, as well as De Administrando Imperio) to assess the economic situation in the Crimea, especially in Cherson, during ... -
Hadrian, a Numismatic Lapse, and… Janus:
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-21)The image of the “founder”, who marks the boundaries of the city with a plough drawn by a pair of animals was one of the obvious themes placed on the reverses of colonial coins. Such a symbolic foundation scene (aratrum ...