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Assessing the Demographic and Economic Parameters that Determined the Residential History of Medieval Central Greece: the Case of Western Sterea Hellas
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-12-30)The principal objective of this study is to investigate the demographic and economic parameters that shaped the settlement dynamics of medieval Central Greece (Sterea Hellas) over a broad chronological span extending from ... -
The Relations between the Komitopules and the Peoples of the Steppes of Eastern Europe. A Vain Hope for an Alliance
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-12-30)Medieval Bulgaria maintained relations with the Pontic nomadic communities. The times of the rule of the Komitopules were not exceptional in this respect. In the face of a difficult war with Byzantium, the Hungarians and ... -
Two Unrecognized Hydronyms on the Island of Crete
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-12-30)This paper discusses two possible hydronyms of Ancient Crete. The first question refers to a Cretan river flowing along the boundaries of the ancient city of Lato (IC I, XVI, 5, line 67). It is suggested that the epigraphical ... -
The Octopus as a Literary Figure in Imperial-Era Literature
(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 ... -
Representing the Ideal: The Portrait of the Sanguine in Cesare Ripa’s Iconologia
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-12-30)This article is the fourth and final in a series of works aimed at contributing to the documentation of the success of the medical theory of individual complexions, derived from the theory of the four humours, through the ... -
Art of Tradition: The Armenian Gospel Books (Seventeenth Century) in the Gulbenkian Collection
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-12-30)This paper presents preliminary notes on three seventeenth-century Armenian Gospel Books preserved in the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon. For the first time, these manuscripts are examined through a comprehensive ... -
The Autocephalous Structure of the Orthodox Church in a Historical – Canonical Perspective
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-12-30)It is well known that the foundations of Church organization were established by the Holy Apostles themselves, who were the first to spread the teachings of Christ. They fulfilled this mission in accordance with the command ... -
Text-Critical Notes to Constantine of Preslav’s Didactic Gospel
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-12-30)Constantine of Preslav’s Učitel’noe evangelie was written at the end of the ninth century but came down to us in only four full, much later, copies from the twelfth (the single East Slavonic manuscript [S]) to the fourteenth ... -
The Evolution of Ottoman Night Operations: From Emirate to Empire
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-12-30)This study examines the transformation of Ottoman attitudes toward night warfare from the late thirteenth to the late fifteenth century. By analyzing the evolving organization and composition of the Ottoman military, it ... -
How to Justify a Murderer: Ancient Rhetorical Echoes in Alexandre Sylvain Van den Bussche’s <i>Épitomes de cent histoires tragiques</i>
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-12-30)In 1581, Alexandre Sylvain Van den Bussche published in Paris his most significant work, Épitomes de cent histoires tragiques, a collection formally indebted to Seneca the Elder’s Controversiae. The thematic material is ... -
Once Again About the Short Slavic Redactions of Zonaras’ Chronicle
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-12-30)Recent research into the history of the transmission of Zonaras’ Chronicle in the Slavic Orthodox World has shown that three short redactions of it were compiled from the so-called full Slavic redaction, an abridged version ... -
Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Canons of the Matins in Honour of Saints Constantine and Helena
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-12-30)This article presents (a) a critical edition of two still unedited Byzantine canons of the Matins and (b) a re-edition of two Byzantine and post-Byzantine canons, all dedicated to Saints Constantine and Helena. Additionally, ... -
Zofia A. Brzozowska, <i>София – олицетворенная Премудрость Божия. История сюжета в</i> <i>византийско-славянской культуре</i> [<i>Sophia – the Personification of Divine Wisdom. The History of the Notion in the Byzantine-Slavic</i> <i>Culture</i>], Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Łódź 2024 [= Byzantina Lodziensia, 48], pp. 402, https://doi.org/10.18778/8331-545-4
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<i>Codex Suprasliensis. Kodeks</i> <i>Supraski czyli Cyrylicka Księga</i> <i>Supraska w</i> <i>przekładzie na język</i> polski [<i>Codex Suprasliensis</i>. <i>Suprasliensis Cyryllic Book</i> <i>in Polish Translation</i>], ed. priest H. Paprocki, Książnica Podlaska, Białystok 2023, pp. 438
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The Translation of Medieval Sources and Historical Reconstruction: a New Perspective on the Problem of the Birth Year of the Bulgarian Tsar John II Assen (1218–1241)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-12-30)The article examines the important topic of the limits of interpretation when studying medieval sources through the prism of a particular example taken from the History of George Akropolites. Without sufficient information ... -
Some Alternative Translations of the Chronicle of Al-AnṬākī
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-12-30)The paper proposes numerous possible changes to the French translation of the chronicle of Al-Anṭākī. The proposed corrections are based on Arabic editions (including neglected variant readings of the manuscripts) and the ... -
Premodern Armenian Medicine, Tsaghik and Potential New Evidence for the Early History of Smallpox
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-12-30)The paper presents new ethnomedical and philological evidence for a disease that is commonly identified as smallpox, predating the earliest known and convincing descriptions of the 10th century AD physician Rhazes. Our ... -
Celibacy, Priesthood, Marriage, Puberty and Popular Culture in the Works of 14<sup>th</sup> Century Tarnovo Authors
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-12-30)This article explores several real examples of celibacy, marriage and puberty in the works of 14th century Tarnovo authors. It explores several key issues: celibacy in both its manifestations – the orthodox and the heretical, ... -
The Image of Caliph ‘Ali in the <i>Chronography </i>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, ...
