Browsing Studia Ceranea Vol. 15/2025 by Issue Date
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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 ... -
Magic, Demons, and Heretics: Three Puzzling Cases in <i>The Letter</i> of Euthymius of Akmonia
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-12-30)This study explores the theme of magic and demons in the anti-heretical Letter written by Euthymius, an 11th-century monk from the Monastery of Theotokos Perivleptos in Constantinople. The Letter was aimed at his fellow ... -
Eugénie Rébillard,<i> Imposer l’ordre. La police dans les villes et les campagnes de l’Iraq abbasside</i> (<i>132–334/750–945</i>), Presses de l’Ifpo, Beyrouth 2024 [= Études arabes, médiévales et modernes, 306], pp. 724, https://doi.org/10.4000/13m0h
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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 ... -
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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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 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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Beautiful and ‘Fiery in Spirit’? The Complexity of the Image of Emperor Isaac II Angelos in the <i>History </i>by Niketas Choniates
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-12-30)The depiction of Isaac II Angelos in the History of Niketas Choniates, rounded off with the full description of the emperor in the final paragraph of the account on his first reign (1185–1195), is by far the most complex ... -
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 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, ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
<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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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 ...