RSS 1.0Studia Ceranea Vol. 8/2018
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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE FEMALE DEITIES AND DEMONS IN INDO-EUROPEAN CULTURE, 19TH–21ST OCTOBER, 2017
1. Indo-European Roots of the Helen of TroyMACIEJ JASZCZYŃSKI
2. Characteristics of Roman Female Deities
IDALIANA KACZOR
3. The First Woman Yamī, Her Origin and Her Status in Indo-Iranian Mythology: Demigoddess or Half-human? (Evidence from R̥gveda 10.10, Iranian Parallels and Greek Relatives)
LEONID KULIKOV
4. Circe and Rome. The Origin of the Legend
HANNA ZALEWSKA-JURA
ARTICLES
5. On the Possibilities of Researching the Marriage Policies of the Rurikids: The Case of Mstislav Fyodor Vladimirovich MonomakhovichDARIUSZ DĄBROWSKI
6. Electronic Diachronic Corpus and Dictionaries of Old Bulgarian
GERGANA GANEVA
7. Prolegomena to the Christian Images Not Made by Human Hands
MATEJ GOGOLA
8. Catechumens in the East in the Light of Pseudo-epigraphic Normative Church Sources from the 4th Century
ANDRZEJ R. HOŁASEK
9. Byzantine Rank Hierarchy in the 9th–11th Centuries
NIKOLAY KANEV
10. Asparuh and His People on the Lower Danube through the Eyes of Theophanes, or a Story that Was Not Meant to Happen
KIRIŁ MARINOW
11. The Economic Condition of the Bishopric of Gaza (Palestine) during the Rule of Bishop Porphyry (circa 395–420)
IRENEUSZ MILEWSKI
12. From Paganism to Christianity. General Remarks on the Religious Changes in Petra (1st–6th Cent. AD)
MOHAMMED AL-NASARAT
13. Berichus and the Evidence for Aspar’s Political Power and Aims in the Last Years of Theodosius II’s Reign
ŁUKASZ PIGOŃSKI
14. Prospective Gain or Actual Cost? Arab Civilian and Military Captives in the Light of Byzantine Narrative Sources and Military Manuals from the 10th Century
SZYMON WIERZBIŃSKI
15. The Byzantine-Poetic Path of the Works of St. Maximus the Greek (Mikhail Trivolis, *Arta, ca. 1470 – St. Maximus the Greek, †Moscow, 1556)
NEŽA ZAJC
BOOK REVIEWS
16. Athenais-Eudocia – the Augusta of Palestine (remarks on the book: Т.Л. АЛЕКСАНДРОВА, Византийская императрица Афинаида-Евдокия. Жизнь и творчество в контексте эпохи правления императора Феодосия II (401–450) [Byzantine Empress Athenais-Eudocia. Life and Works in the Context of the Reign of Theodosius II (401–450)], Алетейя, Санкт-Петербург 2018, pp. 415 [Новая византийская библиотека. Исследования])MAŁGORZATA B. LESZKA, MIROSŁAW J. LESZKA
17. Małgorzata Skowronek, Średniowieczne opowieści biblijne. Paleja historyczna w tradycji bizantyńsko-słowiańskiej [Medieval Biblical Stories. Palaea Historica in the Byzantine-Slavic Tradition], Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Łódź 2017 [= Series Ceranea, 4], pp. 396.
MACIEJ DAWCZYK
18. Libanios, Discours, t. III, Discours XI. Antiochicos, texte établi et traduit par M. Casevitz, O. Lagacherie, notes complémentaires par C. Saliou, Les Belles Lettres, Paris 2016 [= Collection des Universités de France. Série grecque, 524], pp. CIII, 213.
PAWEŁ FILIPCZAK
19. Św. Jan Chryzostom, Mowy do Antiocheńczyków o posągach [Spechees for Antiochenes on the Statues], przekład i komentarz J. Iluk, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego, Gdańsk–Sopot 2017, pp. XXII, 278.
PAWEŁ FILIPCZAK
20. Zofia A. Brzozowska, Mirosław J. Leszka, Maria Lekapene, Empress of the Bulgarians. Neither a Saint nor a Malefactress, translated by M. Majer, A. Mękarski, M. Zytka, Łódź University Press, Jagiellonian University Press, Łódź–Kraków 2017 [= Byzantina Lodziensia, 36], pp. VII, 226.
ANNA KOTŁOWSKA
21. ЛЕВ ХИРОСФАКТ, Сочинения, перевод с греческого, подготовка издания, комментарии, вступительная статья Т.А. СЕНИНОЙ (монахини Кассии) [Leo Choirosphaktes, Works, translated from Greek and edited with a commentary and introduction by T.A. Senina (nun Kassia)], Алетейя, Санкт-Петербург 2017 [= Новая византийская библиотека. Источники], pp. 279.
MIROSŁAW J. LESZKA
22. Leonora Neville, Guide to Byzantine Historical Writing, with the assistance of David Harrisville, Irina Tamarkina, and Charlotte Whatley, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2018, pp. XII, 322.
MIROSŁAW J. LESZKA
23. Leonora Neville, Heroes and Romans in Twelfth-Century Byzantium. The Material for History of Nikephoros Bryennios, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2016, pp. XIV, 243 (paperback).
ZDZISŁAW PENTEK
24. Małgorzata Skowronek, Palaea Historica. The Second Slavic Translation: Commentary and Text, trans. Y. Loske, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Łódź 2016 [Series Ceranea, 3], pp. 204.
ŁUKASZ PIGOŃSKI
25. Średniowieczne herezje dualistyczne na Bałkanach. Źródła słowiańskie [Medieval Dualist Heresies in the Balkans. Slavic Sources] opracowanie, przekład i komentarz Georgi Minczew, Małgorzata Skowronek, Jan Mikołaj Wolski, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Łódź 2015 [= Series Ceranea, 1], pp. 240.
ŁUKASZ PIGOŃSKI
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