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The Clergy during the Fourth Crusade as Portrayed in Robert of Clari’s Chronicle
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-23)This article deals with the view of clerical participants in the Fourth Crusade found in Robert of Clari’s Old-French chronicle La conquête de Constantinople. The author has analysed the chronicler’s references to members ... -
Merchants in Early Byzantine Hagiographic Texts
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-23)This article deals with accounts devoted to merchants and merchant activity that can be found in hagiographic texts from the early Byzantine era. Such accounts are few and far between, which is surprising, especially when ... -
Civil Authority in the Byzantine Provinces (7th–9th Centuries)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-30)The issue of the rise of the thematic system of administration sparked off an intense debate that has engaged scholars for the past few decades. Those inclined to the view of a one-time reform have argued that the themata ... -
Sardinia and the Byzantine West Paradigm Shifts and Changing Perceptions
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-30)The paper focuses on Sardinia from the fall of Carthage (698) to the rise of its autonomous rulers, the iudikes, in the mid-9th c. During these centuries, the island managed to convey a sense of historical standing between ... -
Representing the altra bilis: The ‘Said’ and ‘Unsaid’ of the Melancholic in Cesare Ripa’s Iconologia
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-23)This article is the third in a series of works which aims to contribute to documenting the influence of the medical theory of individual temperaments, derived from the theory of the four humors, through the major work ... -
The Revolts of the Varangians in Constantinople: Two Incidents at the Palace
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-30)This article deals with the revolts staged by the Varangians at the imperial palace in 1068 and 1078. The first part of the article focuses on the revolt at the beginning of Romanos IV Diogenes’s reign as described by the ... -
4th-Century Orations on Farming: The Case of Themistius and Libanius
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-30)The paper analyses two rhetorical texts from the 4th century – one by Themistius, found in the corpus of his so-called private speeches, titled Should one engage in agriculture (Θέσις εἰ γεωργητέον), and another by Libanius ... -
Garum, Fish Blood Taboos in the Judaeo-Christian World and the Evolving Nature of Ancient Fish Sauce
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-23)Der Verzehr einer fermentierten Fischsoße erscheint in allen Gesellschaftsschichten als grundlegender Bestandteil der römischen und griechischen Küche und war, was die Verbreitung von Amphoren betrifft, in allen Regionen ... -
Ambroise Paré and Laurent Joubert, Knowledge and Beliefs about Pregnancy in 16th Century France
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-23)Our article is devoted to the science of female anatomy in the 16th century, particularly the practices and beliefs related to pregnancy and childbirth. We analysed the academic discourse presented in the Œuvres of Ambroise ... -
Byzantine Reconquista (10th–11th Centuries) and the Attacks on Christians in the Lands of Islam (Egypt, Syria and Iraq)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-30)The paper discusses a wave of attacks on Christians in the lands of Islam that accompanied Byzantine victories on the battlefield in 10th–11th centuries, including pogroms and attacks in the capital of Egypt, Antioch, ... -
Taxonomy of Patience in Sixteenth-century Florentine Political Thought
Czapińska-Bambara, Marta
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-23)
This article examines the concept of pazienza present in the writings of Machiavelli and Guicciardini. It turned out that it is closely related to key concepts for their considerations, such as Fortune, Time or Opportunity, ... -
The Theme of the First Muslim Women in Chronographia of Theophanes the Confessor
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-30)This article concerns itself with a small fragment of Chronographia by Theophanes the Confessor. The fragment is devoted to the role of women in the rise and spread of Islam. Although generally considered to express ... -
“The Unbroken Fellowship” What Did Khan Boris and Empress Theodora Agree upon?
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-30)This article presents a novel hypothesis regarding the events surrounding the Christianization of Khan Boris of Bulgaria. The author proposes the possibility of a marriage between Empress Theodora and Khan Boris, primarily ... -
Peaches at Medieval Site Ras, Serbia: Unraveling Routes of Introduction and Local Cultivation in the Balkans
; Jagusiak, Krzysztof; (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-30)
The study combines archaeological evidence, written sources, and genetic studies to trace the routes of peach introduction to the Balkans and explore the local cultivation practices and it revisits the discovery of peach ... -
Mars Pater – in the Strategy of Constantine the Great
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-23)During his reign Constantine the Great sought protection of various gods, finally choosing the Christian God as his main protector. The iconographic material gathered from the mints remaining under his power in the early ... -
The Byzantine East and Bulgaria – The Eastern Armies of Byzantium in the Wars Against the First Bulgarian Empire (680–1018)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-23)This article deals with the engagement of the Byzantine eastern troops in the wars the empire waged against Bulgaria from the late seventh until the early eleventh centuries. To this end, both narrative and sphragistic ... -
Sweet and Salty Recipes: Some Examples from the Muslim and Byzantine Culinary and Medicinal Common Tradition
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-30)This paper discusses the use of salt, vinegar, honey, and sugar in some Byzantine and Arabic-Islamic recipes in cooking and pastry-making as well as for food preservation and in medical preparations. It draws mostly on ... -
The Short Redaction of Joannes Zonaras’ Ἐπιτομὴ Ἱστοριῶν in the Slavonic Manuscript Tradition
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-30)The paper will focus on the four known Slavic witnesses of the so-called short redaction of Zonaras’ Chronicle and will try to explore its provenance and development. The conclusions will be based on the comparison of the ... -
Essence and Ways of Infiltration of the Paulician Heresy in the Medieval Bulgarian Lands
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-30)Paulicianism in Bulgaria has its origins in the forced resettlement of Paulicians from Asia Minor and the eastern regions of the empire to Northern Thrace by the authorities of the Eastern Roman Empire in the 8th–10th ... -
Interlinear and Marginal Glosses in the Athonite Translation of John Chrysostom’s De Statuis
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-30)According to a colophon in manuscript RM 3/6 from the Rila Monastery, a complete Slavonic translation of John Chrysostom’s Homilies on the Statues was made on Mount Athos by the Serbian monk Antonije and copied by Vladislav ...