The article examines the important topic of the limits of interpretation when studying medieval sources through the prism of a particular example taken from the History of George Akropolites. Without sufficient information ...

The paper presents new ethnomedical and philological evidence for a disease that is commonly identified as smallpox, predating the earliest known and convincing descriptions of the 10th century AD physician Rhazes. Our ...

The paper proposes numerous possible changes to the French translation of the chronicle of Al-Anṭākī. The proposed corrections are based on Arabic editions (including neglected variant readings of the manuscripts) and the ...

Constantine of Preslav’s Učitel’noe evangelie was written at the end of the ninth century but came down to us in only four full, much later, copies from the twelfth (the single East Slavonic manuscript [S]) to the fourteenth ...

The depiction of Isaac II Angelos in the History of Niketas Choniates, rounded off with the full description of the emperor in the final paragraph of the account on his first reign (1185–1195), is by far the most complex ...

This article is devoted to a brief Cyrillic text, known as “Polish Chronicle”. Presently kept in the library of the Romanian Academy in Bucharest, it was included in a 16th century Tetraevangelium (BAR, Ms. sl. 722). Only ...

In this paper, I will focus on the images of Constantinople’s past glory in literary texts written between the fifteenth and seventeenth century in vernacular Greek to express the sorrow after the fall of the City in 1453. ...

This article presents the results of qualitative research on the methods of constructing and performing roles in tabletop role-playing games (tRPGs). From the sociological perspective, tRPGs constitute a unique laboratory ...

This article examines two feminist interventions for access to abortion: the Canadian Abortion Caravan of 1970 and the Polish Abortion Patrol of 2023. Despite being separated by more than half a century and thousands of ...