• НИКОЛАЙ ХРИСИМОВ, България и европейският Запад през първите десетилетия на IX век [Bulgaria and the European West in the First Decades of the Ninth Century], Изток–Запад, София 2023, pp. 294 

  Leszka, Mirosław J. (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-23)

• Българска национална история, vol. IV, Византийското владичество и епохата на Второто българско царство (1018 г. – средата на XV в.), ed. П. ПАВЛОВ [The Bulgarian national history, vol. IV, The Byzantine rule and the epoch of the Second Bulgarian Tsardom (1018 – the mid-fifteenth century), ed. P. Pavlov], Абагар, Велико Търново 2023, pp. 727 

  Leszka, Mirosław J. (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-23)

• The Incantation against Snakebite from Norov’s Psalmbook – Linguistic and Historical Aspects 

  Saldzhiev, Hristo (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-30)

  The paper explores the linguistic and cultural patterns behind an oral incantation against snakebite that appears on the last page of a Middle Bulgarian book of psalms. The manuscript dates back to the 14th century, and ...

• Il re e le sue lingue. Comunicazione e imperialità / Le roi et ses langues. Communication et impérialité, ed. Fulvio Delle Donne, Benoît Grévin, Basilicata University Press, Potenza 2023 [= Imperialiter, 2], pp. 176, https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-31309-2 

  Cecota, Błażej (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-23)

• Paul Magdalino, Roman Constantinople in Byzantine Perspective. The Memorial and Aesthetic Rediscovery of Constantine’s Beautiful City, from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance, Brill, Leiden–Boston 2024 [= Brill Research Perspectives in Byzantine Studies, 1], pp. 177, https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004700765 

  Garnczarska, Magdalena (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-23)

• Toponyms in the Slavonic Excerpt from the Chronicle of Julius Africanus 

  Totomanova, Anna-Maria (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-30)

  For a long time, Julius Africanus’ Chronicle has only been known through hundreds of fragments scattered across Greek, Latin and Oriental (Syriac, Arabic, and Armenian) manuscripts. About fifteen years ago, a long and ...

• Imagining One’s Own Infidel: Balkan Dhimmī Christians in Ottoman Historical Writing until 1600 

  Rusev, Delyan (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-30)

  Non-Muslim dhimmīs, i.e. Christians and Jews, were an integral part of Ottoman society but left a negligible – and so far, largely neglected – trace in Ottoman (Muslim) historical writing of the fifteenth and the sixteenth ...

• A Sixth-century Story in a Nineth-century Tract? Torna, torna, frater Revisited 

  Negrău, Elisabeta (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-23)

  This article focuses on the Latin words torna and frater. According to the accounts of Theophylact Simocatta and Theophanes the Confessor, the words were used by soldiers participating in the Byzantine-Avar war campaign ...

• The Clergy during the Fourth Crusade as Portrayed in Robert of Clari’s Chronicle 

  Pentek, Zdzisław (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 

  Milewski, Ireneusz (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) 

  Malatras, Christos (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 

  Muresu, Marco (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 

  Koźluk, Magdalena (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 

  Fylypchuk, Oleksandr (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 

  Kosznicki, Michał (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 

  Grainger, Sally (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 

  Bujak, Victoria (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) 

  Czyż, Maciej (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 

  Cecota, Błażej (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 ...

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