• Плач Адама и «адамический текст» в древнеславянской рукописной традиции 

  Рождественская, Милена В. (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2014)

  Apocryphal stories of Adam related to the subjects of the Paradise lost, Adam’s repentance and expulsion from Eden, life of Adam and Eve after the expulsion, the manuscript that Adam gave to Satan, the Holy Cross story ...

• Народные и апокрифические мотивы рождественского цикла, отраженные в углянских рукописях второй половины XVII века 

  Шашерина, Светлана (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2014)

  This paper deals with Apocryphas of the nativity cycle, particularly motives of the Three Wise Men arriving, which includes Afroditian’s legend as well, in cultural context of Transcarpatia, which is a border area between ...

• Несколько замечаний о необычной славянской редакции Видения апостола Павла из рукописных cобраний в Польше 

  Stradomski, Jan (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2014)

  The apocryphal Apocalypse of St. Paul the Apostle belongs to the group of early-Christian texts which exerted significant impact on people’s perception of the nether world and the Last Judgment. In the Middle Ages, the ...

• Kalin Yanakiev as a Writer of Apocrypha? Remarks on the Essay Дебат върху теодицеята (A Debate on Theodicy) 

  Szwat-Gyłybowa, Grażyna (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2014)

  The article engages with the philosophical and theological notion of theodicy as formulated by Kalin Yanakiev in Дебат върху теодицеята (A Debate on Theodicy), an essay which appeared in Yanakiev’s book Философски опити ...

• On Medieval Storytelling. The Story of Melchizedek in Certain Slavonic Texts (Palaea Historica and the Apocryphal Cycle of Abraham) 

  Skowronek, Małgorzata (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2014)

  The article analyses the story of the prophet-king Melchizedek (mentioned in Gen 14,17–20, Ps 110,4 and three passages in Heb: 5,6–10, 6,20, 7,1–17), recorded in Slavonic historical texts: the first and second translation ...

• Autoproscoptae, Bogomils and Messalians in the 14th Century Bulgaria 

  Wolski, Jan Mikołaj (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2014)

  This paper discusses the use of the names of heresies: bogomilism, messalianism and the heresy of autoproscoptae in 14th century Bulgarian sources. The author underlines that the names of bogomilism and messalianism do not ...

• Cured Meats in Ancient and Byzantine Sources: Ham, Bacon and Tuccetum 

  Rzeźnicka, Zofia; Kokoszko, Maciej; Jagusiak, Krzysztof (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2014)

  The present study discusses the role of salt-cured meat in dietetics, medicine and gastronomy demonstrated mainly in ancient and Byzantine medical (Galen, Oribasius, Aetius of Amida, Anthimus, Alexander of Tralles and ...

• Normans and Other Franks in 11th Century Byzantium: the Careers of the Adventurers before the Rule of Alexius I Comnenus 

  Wierzbiński, Szymon (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2014)

  The paper examines the Frankish presence in Byzantium during 11th century. It was stressed that the mentioned period was the time of a great influx of westerners to the East. At first, most of them visited Constantinople ...

• Some Anti-Heretic Fragments in the 14th Century Bulgarian Canon Law Miscellanies 

  Tsibranska-Kostova, Mariyana (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2014)

  It is well known that the major anti-heretic written source from the Second Bulgarian Empire is the Tsar Boril’s Synodicon, proved to have been compiled to serve the Synod against the Bogomils, convened in Tărnovo in 1211. ...

• Обрядовые уклонения и дурные привычки латинских еретиков в византийско- славянской полемической литературе Средневековья 

  Николов, Ангел; Станев, Камен (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2014)

  The paper discusses the differences between Eastern and Western Christians during the Middle Ages through the prism of the lists of ritual deviations and bad habits of the ‘Latin heretics’, which were circulated in Byzantium ...

• Сведения о дуалистических ересях и языческих верованиях в Шестодневе Иоанна Экзарха 

  Mintchev, Gueorgui; Skowronek, Małgorzata (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2014)

  The article aims to present and analyze those passages of the Hexameron (Šestodnev) in which ‘heretics’, ‘Manichaeans’, ‘pagans’ or ‘pagan Slavs’ are mentioned. The fragments are compared with their Greek counterparts (as ...

• Sophia – the Personification of Divine Wisdom in the Culture of Novgorod the Great from 13th to 15th Century 

  Brzozowska, Zofia Aleksandra (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2014)

  The idea of Sophia – the personified Wisdom of God served as a symbol of independence and identity of the republic in the political culture of Novgorod the Great. In Old Russian chronicles and other narrative sources which ...

• Selected Elements of Animated Nature Associated with the Birth of Jesus in the Bulgarian Oral Culture and Apocryphal Narratives 

  Krzeszewska, Karolina (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2014)

  The article attempts to extract textual and extratextual planes on which representatives of fauna made their mark in the folklore of the South Slavs, mainly Bulgarians; in their oral literature, rituals, and beliefs, ...

• Преславизмы в aпокрифических Вопросах апостола Варфоломея 

  Chromá, Martina (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2014)

  Paper deals with the lexical analysis of the Old Church Slavonic version of the Apocryphal Questions of Bartholomew, a literary monument written most likely in Greek in the 3rd century. The analysis shows that the Slavonic ...

• An Unstudied Compilation with the Name of Andrew the Apostle 

  Miltenova, Anissava (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2014)

  The paper presents an unstudied text with the name of the Apostle Andrew in the miscellany of 15th c., now Muz.10272, Rashka orthography. The text (with traces of archaic archetype) is a unique copy of the compilation. ...

• Славянский перевод апокрифа Didascalia Domini / Откровение святым апостолaм (BHG 812a-e) 

  Райнхарт, Йоханнес (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2014)

  The New Testament apocryphon Didascalia Domini is one of the least known. Its original was written in Greek, according to François Nau, at the end of the 7th century. Relatively early it was translated into Old Church ...

• (Post)Modern Apocrypha as an Epiphany of Sense (on the Basis of Bulgarian Literary Biblical Paraphrases) 

  Drzewiecka, Ewelina (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2014)

  The paper is devoted to the author’s concept of modern apocrypha in the context of the two main tendencies of (Post)modernity: unmasking and paraphrasing. On the basis of the literary paraphrases of the Evangelical story, ...

• The Bohemian Redaction of the Evangelium Nicodemi in Medieval Slavic Vernaculars 

  Izydorczyk, Zbigniew (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2014)

  The Bohemian Redaction of the Evangelium Nicodemi is a hybrid form of the apocryphon, combining elements of Latin traditions A and B. It circulated in central and eastern Europe, and was used as a source for late medieval ...

• Book Reviews: Izabela Lis-Wielgosz, O trwałości znaczeń. Siedemnastowieczna literatura serbska w służbie tradycji [On Permanence of Meaning. The Serbian Literature of the Seventeenth Century in Service with Tradition], Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, Poznań 2013, pp. 336. 

  Kręzel, Piotr (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2014)

• Book Reviews: Лев VI Мудрый. Тактика Льва. Leonis imperatoris Tactica, изд. подгот. В.В. Кучма, ed. Н.Д. Барабанов, Алетейя, Санкт-Петербург 2012, pp. 368 [= Византийская библиотека. Источники]. 

  Cecota, Błażej (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2014)

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