• Tsvetomira Danova, “John of Damascus’ Marian Homilies in Mediaeval South Slavonic Literatures”, ed. Lora Taseva, Peter Lang, Berlin 2020 [= Studies on Language and Culture in Central and Eastern Europe, 36], pp. 542 

  Skowronek, Małgorzata (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)

• “A Companion to Byzantine Italy”, ed. Salvatore Cosentino, Brill, Leiden–Boston 2021 [= Brill’s Companions to the Byzantine World, 8], 33 maps, 25 figures, abbreviations, notes on contributors, index, pp. XVIII, 829 

  Pełech, Tomasz (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)

• “Transmitting and Circulating the Late Antique and Byzantine Worlds”, ed. Mirela Ivanova, Hugh Jeffery, Brill, Leiden–Boston 2020 [= The Medieval Mediterranean, 118], 35 maps and illustrations, list of contributors, index, pp. XII, 302 

  Pełech, Tomasz (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)

• Marcin Cyrulski, Teodora Prodromosa „Przygody Radante i Dosyklesa” [“The Adventures of Rhodanthe and Dosikles” by Theodore Prodromos], Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, Katowice 2020 [= Bibliotheca Byzantina], pp. 199 

  Leszka, Mirosław J. (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)

• “The Church Histories of Theodore Lector and John Diakrinomenos”, ed. Rafał Kosiński, Kamilla Twardowska, trans. Aneta Zabrocka, Adrian Szopa, Peter Lang, Berlin–New York–Wien 2021 [= Studies in Classical Literature and Culture], pp. 6921 

  Hołasek, Andrzej R. (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)

• The Non-Orthodox in The Martyrdom of John the New by Gregory Camblak Patterns of Dehumanization 

  Wolski, Jan Mikołaj (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)

  The image of the non-Orthodox in Camblak’s work is unequivocally negative. Behind the abusive rhetoric lie patterns well known to social psychology. One can easily recognize the author’s dehumanizing attitude, which reveals ...

• On the Prehistory of Bogomilism – the Historical and Religious Continuum of the Dualistic Groups in Early Medieval Bulgaria (8th–10th Century) 

  Saldzhiev, Hristo (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)

  The aim of the present article is to shed light on the prehistory of Bogomilism, in particular on the existence of an initial Proto-Bogomilian group from the second half of the 8th century to the first decades of the 10th ...

• From Enemies to Allies: the Mystery of Prince Oleg’s Campaign against Constantinople 

  Romensky, Aleksandr A. (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)

  This article proposes a rethinking of the main patterns of Rus-Byzantine relations at the turn of the 9th–10th centuries. The Christianization of some groups of Rus’ elite after 860 seems to be plausible, but short-lived. ...

• Theoria and Optasia in the Old Church Slavonic Translations of the “Life of St Anthony the Great” 

  Petrov, Ivan P. (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)

  The focus of the present paper is the terms θεωρία and ὀπτασία presented in the Greek text of Life of St Anthony the Great by St Athanasius of Alexandria and their translation representation in the Old Church Slavonic ...

• Images of the Emperors John II and Manuel I in the Accounts of William, Archbishop of Tyre 

  Pentek, Zdzisław (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)

  This article deals with the reception of the image of the Emperors John II and Manuel I of the Komnenos dynasty based on the chronicler’s account by William of Tyre (1130–1186). It shows a positive evolution in the portrayal ...

• Money in “Historia monachorum in Aegypto” 

  Milewski, Ireneusz (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)

  The text discusses the accounts of money in Historia monachorum in Aegypto. There are not many of them and, in addition, they are quite succinct. The first illustrates the face of early Byzantine fiscalism, the difficulty ...

• The Notion of "communis schola" in the Thought of Jean Gerson (1363–1429) 

  Micali, Luciano (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)

  The article aims to analyze the meaning and the role of the notion of communis schola in the theological and ecclesiological thought of Jean Gerson (1363–1429), Chancellor of the University of Paris, schoolman influent in ...

• Lilingis, the Bastard Half-Brother of Illus 

  Leszka, Mirosław J. (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)

  The paper is devoted to Lilingis – one of the leaders in the Isaurian uprising against emperor Anastasius I. He was Illus’ half-brother. Illus was an Isaurian who, aside from Zeno, played the most important role in the ...

• The Early Christians in the Face of Epidemics 

  Kashchuk, Oleksandr (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)

  The purpose of the article is to present the reaction of the early Christians to the emergence and the spread of the great epidemics. During the early Christian ages (2nd–3rd centuries) different plagues devastated people ...

• Byzantine Battleships and Military Transport Vessels along the Hostile Shores 

  Hristov, Yanko; Kostadinova, Dafina (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)

  The establishment of the Bulgarian Khanate along the Lower Danube River and the Northern Black Sea coast changed the geo-political situation in the early medieval Southeastern Europe. It is beyond doubt that the Bulgarians ...

• Roman Campaigns and Negotiations in the East, 542–545 

  Greatrex, Geoffrey (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)

  This article seeks to support the earlier dating of campaigns on the Roman eastern frontier in the 540s. It addresses points made in a recent contribution by Michael Whitby, who argued that the traditional chronology, which ...

• The Eulogy of Symeonic Miscellany: the Imperial Patronage of the First Slavic Anthology 

  Garzaniti, Marcello (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)

  The essay proposes an interpretation of the eulogy of Symeon’s Miscellany considering not only the cultural context of the First Bulgarian Empire at the beginning of the tenth century, but also the historical situation and ...

• General Overview of the Three-dimensional Architectural Models as Acroteria in Medieval Georgia 

  Chitishvili, Natalia (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)

  Medieval architecture of the South Caucasus developed a unique tradition of making acroteria shaped as three-dimensional models of churches. Since the church-shaped acroteria have never been thoroughly explored in Georgia, ...

• Captives and Refugees. The Forced Migration of the Inhabitants of the Byzantine Eastern Frontier during the 5th–7th Centuries in Light of Byzantine-Slavic Hagiographical Texts 

  Brzozowska, Zofia Aleksandra (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)

  This article is devoted to the image of a social situation in the eastern parts of the Byzantine Empire during the 5th–7th century, which is to be found in the East Christian hagiographical texts. They cannot be treated ...

• The De haeresibus et synodis of Germanos I of Constantinople as a Source on Early Byzantine Heresies? Prospects of a Critical Edition 

  Zieme, Johann Anton (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)

  A new, critical edition of the 8th-century treatise De haeresibus et synodis (CPG 8020) by Patriarch Germanus I of Constantinople is in progress; it will provide new insights, especially into the large extent of sources ...

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