Browsing Studia Ceranea Vol. 9/2019 by Issue Date
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Adrian Jusupović, "Kronika halicko-wołyńska (Kronika Romanowiczów) w latopisarskiej kolekcji historycznej" ["The Galician-Volhynian Chronicle (The Romanowicz Dynasty Chronicle) in the Historical Chronicle Collection"], Avalon, Kraków–Warszawa 2019, pp.203
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The Arabs in the Chronicle of Constantine Manasses
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)This paper looks into the piece by Constantine Manasses considering how it depicts the Arabs. It appears Manasses saw the Arabs primarily as bloody and cruel plunderers who invaded the Byzantine lands. Indeed, they won ... -
ДИМО ЧЕШМЕДЖИЕВ, "Етюди върху български средновековни култовe" [Dimo Češmedžiev, "Studies of Medieval Bulgarian Cults"], Фондация Българско историческо наследство, Пловдив 2019, pp. VIII, 177.
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Szymon Wierzbiński, "U boku bazyleusa. Frankowie i Waregowie w cesarstwie bizantyńskim w XI w." ["By the Side of the Basileus. The Franks and the Varangians in the Byzantine Empire in the 11th century"], Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Łódź 2019: [= Byzantina Lodziensia, 37], pp. 420.
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The Political Ambitions of Serbian Patriarch Arsenije IV Jovanović Šakabenta
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)Arsenije IV Jovanović Šakabenta (1698–1748) was one of the last leaders of the Peć Patriarchate. The period of his service coincided with the so-called Second Great Migration of the Serbs, i.e. the migration of portions ... -
Understanding the Use of Byzantine Routes in Central Anatolia (ca. 7TH–9TH Centuries)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)This paper mainly focuses on the impact of the change in the political equilibrium in the East caused by the effects of the Arab invasions on the main communication routes in Byzantine Central Anatolia. Beginning in the ... -
Reading and Annotating Galen between 1515–1531: on some Latin Galen Editions in the Library of the Carmelites in Cracow
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)Copies of early-printed books have been of interest to to-day’s collectors and researchers not only for their material aspects (names of publishers and places of printing, fonts and composition, number of known copies ... -
The History of the Remains of the Roman Emperor, Julian the Apostate
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)Julian (Flavius Claudius Iulianus), called the Apostate, Roman emperor in the years 361–363, was one of the most intriguing rulers. From antiquity to the present day he invariably aroused great interest, both during his ... -
Was Constantine the Great Aware of the Constantinian Shift?
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)In this article, I try to answer the following question: was Constantine himself aware of the revolution that he was carrying out? Did he realise that his actions were going to change the course of the history of the Empire? ... -
Money in the Apophthegmata Patrum
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)The objective of this paper is to discuss accounts related to money in Apophthegmata Patrum, a collection of sayings attributed to famous Egyptian monks. The collection as we know it was produced in the 6th century. By ... -
Treatise "De Administrando Imperio" by Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus: Date of the Paris. gr. 2009 Copy, Years of Compiling of the Original Codex, and a Hypothesis about the Number of Authors
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)The article proposes a new version of the history of the famous Byzantine political treatise De Administrando Imperio. The text of this treatise was written after 952 and before November 959 personally by Emperor Constantine ... -
Titus Flavius Clemens’ Stance on Wine as Expressed in Paedagogus
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)Titus Flavius Clemens was a philosopher and Christian theologian from the period of the 2nd–3th century. The aim of this paper is to present his view on the subject of wine and his recommendations on wine consumption as ... -
Nations and Minorities in Psellos’ "Chronographia" (976–1078)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)The Chronographia of Michael Psellos (1018–1081) reveals a limited interest in nations and minorities within and without the Byzantine Empire. He had access to information about these peoples either indirectly (1018–1042) ... -
Vignette of Constantinople on the "Tabula Peutingerianana". The Column of Constantine or the Lighthouse
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)The article contains the analyses of 40 descriptions of the vignette of Constantinople in Tabula Peutingeriana created between the years 1768 and 2018. The number of these descriptions is not at all complete, however, it ... -
Wine and Myrrh as Medicaments or a Commentary on Some Aspects of Ancient and Byzantine Mediterranean Society
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)The present study has resulted from a close reading of prescriptions for therapeutic wines inserted in book V of De materia medica by Pedanius Dioscorides, the eminent expert in materia medica of the 1st century A.D. The ... -
Love and Theatre in the Works of Nikephoros Basilakes
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)The article analyzes the rhetorical output of Nikephoros Basilakes, focusing on his use of scenic terminology and the psychological interpretation of myths. The conclusions substantiate the theory that Nikephoros had been ... -
Rumanian Slavia as the Frontier of Orthodoxy. The Case of the Slavo-Rumanian Tetraevangelion of Sibiu
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)At least from the 14th to the 17th c. – beyond their Middle Ages until their Early Modern Ages – the Rumanians belonged to the so-called Slavia Orthodoxa. Besides the Orthodox faith, they had in common with the Orthodox ... -
The Relief on the Door of the Msho Arakelots Monastery (1134) as a Source for Studying Arms and Armour of Medieval Armenian Warriors
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)Byzantium’s arms and armours were researched by many historians. For that reason, the military history of the medieval Roman Empire enjoyed a dominant position in medieval historiography, with the consequence that very ... -
The Anti-Bogomil Anathemas in the Synodikon of Tsar Boril and in the Discourse of Kosmas the Presbyter against the Bogomils
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)During the last dеcade the history of the Synodikon of the Оrthodoxy in Medieval Bulgaria has been tackled upon from different points of view. The author of this paper provided substantial evidence proving that the Synodikon ...