RSS 1.0Studia Ceranea Vol. 7/2017
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Editorial Board:
Georgi Minczew (Editor-in-Chief), Mirosław J. Leszka (Co-Editor-in-Chief), Kirił Marinow (Scientific Secretary), Małgorzata Skowronek (Scientific Secretary), Andrzej Kompa (Subject Editor, Byzantine studies), Agata Kawecka (Subject Editor, Slavic studies), Ivan N. Petrov (Secretary)
Editorial Council
Hana Gladkova (Charles University in Prague), James Douglas Howard-Johnston (Corpus Christi College, Oxford), Ewald Kislinger (University of Vienna), Eliza Małek (University of Łódź), Józef Naumowicz (Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw), Szymon Olszaniec (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń), Stefano Parenti (Pontifical Atheneum of St. Anselm, Rome), Günter Prinzing (Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz), Rustam Shukurov (Lomonosov Moscow State University), Yuri Stoyanov (University of London)
Reviewers (vol. 7, 2017):
Ivan Biliarsky (Institute of History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), Dariusz Brodka (Jagiellonian University, Cracow), Jean-Claude Cheynet (Paris-Sorbonne University), Ivan Christov (St Clement of Ohrid University of Sofia), Thomas Daiber (Justus Liebig University, Giessen), Marcello Garzaniti (University of Florence), Eugen Hill (University of Cologne), Nayda Ivanova (St Clement of Ohrid University of Sofia), Piotr Kochanek (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin), Rafał Kosiński (University of Bialystok), Anna Kotłowska (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań), Aleksandar Loma (University of Belgrade), Anna Marciniak-Kajzer (University of Łódź), Zdzisław Pentek (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań), Werner Seibt (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna), Krassimir Stantchev (Roma Tre University in Rome), Piotr Szczur (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin), Nicolina Trunte (University of Cologne), Cynthia M. Vakareliyska (University of Oregon), William R. Veder (University of Amsterdam), Norbert Widok (University of Opole), Natalya Zapolskaya (Lomonosov Moscow State University / Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences)
Language editing:
For English – Marek Majer (Harvard University)
Cooperation:
Zofia Brzozowska (University of Łódź), Paweł Filipczak (University of Łódź)
Cover designed by:
Sebastian Buzar
Typesetting:
Tomasz Pietras
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The throne room, 10th century, Preslav. Phot. K. Marinow
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Table of Contents
Articles
1. The Byzantine Office of Ἐπὶ τῶν κρίσεων and Its Holders (in the Light of Sphragistic Evidence and Written Sources)SYMEON ANTONOV
2. The Pious Life of Empress Helena, Constantine the Great’s Mother, in the Light of Socrates of Constantinople and Sozomen
SŁAWOMIR BRALEWSKI
3. The Trisagion Riots (512) as an Example of Interaction between Politics and Liturgy
KAZIMIERZ GINTER
4. Food of Plant Origin in the Life of Early Medieval Bulgarians (End of 7th – Beginning of 11th Century)
NIKOLAY HRISSIMOV
5. Languages and Their Registers in Medieval Croatian Culture
AMIR KAPETANOVIĆ
6. The Chickpea (ἐρέβινϑος; Cicer arietinum L) as a Medicinal Foodstuff and Medicine in Selected Greek Medical Writings
MACIEJ KOKOSZKO, KRZYSZTOF JAGUSIAK, JOLANTA DYBAŁA
7. The Layers of Composition of the Synodikon of Alexius Studites
FREDERICK LAURITZEN
8. On the Reliability of Constantine Porphyrogenitus’ Account of the “Flight” of Prince Časlav from Bulgaria
MIROSŁAW J. LESZKA
9. A Note on the Balto-Slavic and Indo-European Background of the Proto-Slavic Adjective *svętъ ‘Holy’
MAREK MAJER
10. A Few Remarks on the Ransom Paid for Releasing Captives in Selected Early Byzantine Hagiographic Texts
IRENEUSZ MILEWSKI
11. A Note on the Adoption of the Byzantine Models in Medieval Bulgaria (9th–10th Centuries). The Case with the Chrysorrhoas Collection
YAVOR MILTENOV
12. The Synodikon of Orthodoxy in Medieval Bulgaria
ANNA-MARIA TOTOMANOVA
13. Paulicians Between the Dogme and the Legend
MARIYANA TSIBRANSKA-KOSTOVA
Book reviews
14. Zofia Rzeźnicka, Maciej Kokoszko, Ab ovo ad γάλα. Jajka, mleko i produkty mleczne w medycynie i w sztuce kulinarnej (I–VIII)KRZYSZTOF JAGUSIAK
15. АНЕТА ДИМИТРОВА, Златоструят в преводаческата дейност на старобългарските книжовници
AGATA KAWECKA
16. Marcin Böhm, Rola flot obcych w procesie ostatecznego rozkładu sił morskich cesarstwa bizantyńskiego (1118–1204)
MIROSŁAW J. LESZKA
17. Τεοφύλακτος Σιμοκάττης, Οικουμενικὴ ἱστορία / Teofilakt Simokatta, Historia powszechna, przekład, wstęp, komentarz i indeksy Anna Kotłowska, Łukasz Różycki
MIROSŁAW J. LESZKA
18. Matej Gogola, Mandylion z Edessy. Rukou-nestvorený obraz a jeho miesto v byzantskom umení a duchovnej kultúre
ADAM MESIARKIN
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A Note on the Balto-Slavic and Indo-European Background of the Proto-Slavic Adjective *svętъ ‘Holy’
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The standard etymological explanation of the Proto-Slavic adjective *svętъ ‘holy, saint’ – a word of extreme literary, cultural and religious importance in the Slavic world – concentrates on the formal match with Lithuanian ... -
The Layers of Composition of the Synodikon of Alexius Studites
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The Synodikon of Orthodoxy, in its earliest version (Synodikon of Alexius Studites), has at least five different layers of composition. Beside the original one of 843/844, there is one after 845, another after 870, a fourth ... -
On the Reliability of Constantine Porphyrogenitus’ Account of the “Flight” of Prince Časlav from Bulgaria
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The present text aims to reflect on the reliability of Constantine Porphyrogenitus’ account about the departure of Časlav, a Serbian prince, from Bulgaria at the beginning of the reign of Peter I, the successor of Symeon. ... -
The Chickpea (ἐρέβινϑος; Cicer arietinum L) as a Medicinal Foodstuff and Medicine in Selected Greek Medical Writings
; Jagusiak, Krzysztof; (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)
Leguminous plants were a crucially important element in the Mediterranean diet, and, as such, these plants were second only to cereals. It is also important to note that according to medical writings preserved from antiquity ... -
Languages and Their Registers in Medieval Croatian Culture
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The linguistic situation in medieval Croatia was fairly dynamic. The present article discusses the stratification of linguistic culture in the Middle Ages as regards its division into the three registers (high, middle, ... -
Food of Plant Origin in the Life of Early Medieval Bulgarians (End of 7th – Beginning of 11th Century)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The article surveys the available data on food of plant origin used in the period of the First Bulgarian Empire. The information is based on written sources and paleobotanical data, which show the presence of diverse plants ... -
The Trisagion Riots (512) as an Example of Interaction between Politics and Liturgy
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)This article explores the political and cultural context of the riots provoked by changes in the Trisagion (512). Along with the advancing integration of the Byzantine Empire with Christianity, the state’s interest in ... -
Matej Gogola, Mandylion z Edessy. Rukou-nestvorený obraz a jeho miesto v byzantskom umení a duchovnej kultúre
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017) -
Τεοφύλακτος Σιμοκάττης, Οικουμενικὴ ἱστορία / Teofilakt Simokatta, Historia powszechna, przekład, wstęp, komentarz i indeksy Anna Kotłowska, Łukasz Różycki
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Marcin Böhm, Rola flot obcych w procesie ostatecznego rozkładu sił morskich cesarstwa bizantyńskiego (1118–1204)
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The Pious Life of Empress Helena, Constantine the Great’s Mother, in the Light of Socrates of Constantinople and Sozomen
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)In his Ecclesiastical history, Socrates depicts Helena as a pious, strong and independent woman, the mother of the emperor, realizing her own ideas and acting as a tool in the hands of God – the ultimate inspiration of her ... -
Paulicians Between the Dogme and the Legend
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The paper compares how Paulicians were described in different types of medieval Slavonic sources by using the approach of the linguistic and culturological conceptualization of the alterity. By means of linguistic analysis, ... -
The Synodikon of Orthodoxy in Medieval Bulgaria
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The paper compares the content and the structure of the three extant South Slavonic Synodika: Boril’s Synodikon as preserved in the so-called Palauzov copy of the 14th century (НБКМ № 289); Drinov’s Synodikon (НБКМ № 432), ... -
АНЕТА ДИМИТРОВА, Златоструят в преводаческата дейност на старобългарските книжовници
Kawecka, Agata (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)
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Zofia Rzeźnicka, Maciej Kokoszko, Ab ovo ad γάλα. Jajka, mleko i produkty mleczne w medycynie i w sztuce kulinarnej (I–VIII)
Jagusiak, Krzysztof (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)
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A Few Remarks on the Ransom Paid for Releasing Captives in Selected Early Byzantine Hagiographic Texts
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The article analyzes certain early Byzantine hagiographic texts concerning various forms of brigandage (both maritime and land-based). Two such accounts are studied in detail, one by Gerontius of Jerusalem and another by ... -
A Note on the Adoption of the Byzantine Models in Medieval Bulgaria (9th–10th Centuries). The Case with the Chrysorrhoas Collection
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The paper aims at examining the first Slavic collection of homilies of John Chrysostom, called Zlatostruy (i.e. Chrysorrhoas or Golden Stream). The peculiarities of its content, compilation strategy and impact on the ... -
The Byzantine Office of Ἐπὶ τῶν κρίσεων and Its Holders (in the Light of Sphragistic Evidence and Written Sources)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The paper investigates the establishment of the office of the epi ton kriseon during the Reign of emperor Constantine IX Monomachos (1042–1055), analysing the reasons behind its creation and its initial character. In ...