In the Mediterranean Basin, leeks were a popular vegetable used in cooking and medicine. Many authors have commented on the dietary properties and medical uses of the plant. Its taste was also appreciated, which is confirmed ...

Describing diseases was not the aim of Ammianus Marcellinus. He mentioned them whenever the narrative and the events he described required it. He did not treat them instrumentally. Neither he intended to use them to convince ...

The letters written by Theodore Daphnopates, a high Byzantine dignitary, and sent to Bulgarian Tsar Symeon (r. 893–927; d. May 27, 927) on behalf of the Byzantine Emperor Romanos I Lekapenos (r. 920–944; d. June 29, 948) ...

The article is dedicated to the history of the Przecław branch of the Koniecpolski family, Pobóg coat of arms in the 16th and 17th centuries. Its progenitor was the Rozprza castellan, Mikołaj Przedbór (d. 1586). One of his ...

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the Cossacks were used to suppress anti-Russian and anti-tsarist uprisings and revolts. However, during the Civil War in Russia, the Cossacks were subjected to repression and often ...

The issue of ancient warfare was often included in the publications of Polish classicists, although it usually did not constitute an independent research area. The long and well-established tradition of classical studies ...

In old Poland, when one of the spouses died, the surviving parent took over not only the care of the orphaned children, but also of their property, making every effort to prevent it from squandering. As the consequence of ...

The article has systematized and analyzed the digital indicators of the evolution of the eparchial women’s colleges, which existed in the Russian Empire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries on the basis of the reports ...