• Ronald A. Bleeker, Aspar and the Struggle for the Eastern Roman Empire, AD 421–71, Bloomsbury Publishing, London 2022, pp. XII, 234. 

  Pigoński, Łukasz (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-28)

• The Mobility of Serbs in Early Modern Times. Some Remarks on the Margins of Ilona Czamańska’s New History of Serbia. Ilona Czamańska, Historia Serbii. Od pojawienia się Serbów na Bałkanach do 1830 roku [History of Serbia. From the Arrival of the Serbs in the Balkans to 1830], vol. I, Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, Poznań 2021 [= Biblioteka Europy Środkowej i Południowo-Wschodniej], pp. 280. 

  Kręzel, Piotr (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-21)

• Николай A. Кънев, Византия и България на Балканите. Студии върху политическата история и българо-византийското имперско противоборство на Балканския полуостров през периода VII–X в. (Византинобългарски студии II) [Nikolay A. Kănev, Byzantium and Bulgaria in the Balkans. Studies on the Political History and the Bulgarian- Byzantine Political Conflict on the Balkan Peninsula in the Period 7th–10th c. (Byzantine-Bulgarian Studies II)], УИ “Св. св. Кирил и Методий”, Велико Търново 2021, pp. 308. 

  Hristov, Yanko M. (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-21)

• Jan Prostko-Prostyński, A History of the Herules, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, Poznań 2020 [= Historia, 244], pp. 196. 

  Bralewski, Sławomir (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-10-12)

• The Chieftains of the Eastern Roman Empire in Light of the Chronicle of Marcellinus Comes 

  Wierzbiński, Szymon (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-21)

  It is clear that while Chronicle of Marcellinus Comes belongs to most important works from the 6th century, there is significant problem with indicating his personal attitude towards the discussed characters and the described ...

• Ideology behind the Naming: On the Origin of Basil II’s Appellation ‘Scythicus’ 

  Panov, Mitko B. (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-10-12)

  The paper examines the terminology used by the Byzantine authors of the 10th and 11th century as regards the Samuel’s State, which was largely shaped by the Byzantine ideology and momentary aim of the political propaganda. ...

• Hare in Sauce According to Anthimus’ Recipe: Meat 

  Rzeźnicka, Zofia (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-10-12)

  The present article examines the beginning of the recipe for hare meat (leporis vero si novellae […]) preserved in Chapter 13 of the dietetic treatise De observatione ciborum written in the first half of the 6th cent. by ...

• Cyril of Scythopolis on Relieving the Damage in Palestine Inflicted during the Samaritan Revolt (529–531) 

  Milewski, Ireneusz (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-30)

  The text analyses a short account by Cyril of Scythopolis concerning the imperial decision to finance the repair of the damages caused in Palestine by the Samaritan uprising of 529–531. A description of the alleged ...

• The Competition for Cumania between Hungary and Bulgaria (1211–1247) 

  Madgearu, Alexandru (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-28)

  Because the alliance between the Cumans and Bulgaria was a danger both for Hungary and the Latin Empire, it was preferable for Hungary to extend its domination over Cumania. The Teutonic knights were settled in south-eastern ...

• Marcellinus Comes on Emperor Anastasius A Handful of Remarks 

  Leszka, Mirosław J. (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-10-12)

  Anastasius was for Marcellinus not only a historical figure, but a ruler whose reign he was first able to observe from the perspective of his native Illyricum, and later as an inhabitant of Constantinople. The dominant ...

• The Violation of Christian Graves in the Light of Eusebius’s Ecclesiastical History VIII, 6, 6–7 

  Leraczyk, Izabela (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-10-12)

  The main focus of the article are the reasons and circumstances behind the desecration of the graves of the Christians in Nicomedia in the year 303, as presented in Eusebius’s account. A short time before that, another ...

• Représenter la flaua bilis: le portait du colérique dans l’Iconologia de Cesare Ripa 

  Koźluk, Magdalena (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-21)

  Representing the flaua bilis: the Portrait of the Choleric in Cesare Ripa’s Iconology. The theory of the four humours (blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile) forms the basis of ancient medicine. Coming from the Hippocratic ...

• The Legal and Fiscal Situation of the Serbs in the Patriarchate of Peć during the First Decades of the 18th Century 

  Kręzel, Piotr (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-28)

  In the early modern era, the Serbs who lived in the Balkan Peninsula under Ottoman rule formed what was known as a millet. From 1557, their leader was the head of the Patriarchate of Peć, whose jurisdiction and scope of ...

• Gnesioi filoi: George Syncellus and Theophanes the Confessor – Addenda 

  Kompa, Andrzej (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-30)

  The paper provides the addenda to A. Kompa, Gnesioi filoi: the search for George Syncellus’ and Theophanes the Confessor’s own words, and the authorship of their oeuvre, Studia Ceranea 5, 2015, p. 155–230. All the expressions ...

• Two Byzantine Seals from the Excavation of the Medieval Fortress “Malkoto kale” (Yambol Region, Bulgaria) 

  Kanev, Nikolay (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-10-12)

  The present article aims to put into scholarly circulation two new unpublished Byzantine lead seals from the medieval fortress in the area of the village of Voden (municipality of Bolyarovo, Yambol region, Bulgaria). They ...

• Written Languages in Moldavia during the Reign of Peter Rareş (1527–1538, 1541–1546) 

  Knoll, Vladislav (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-30)

  The language of the Moldavian books and chancery documents written during the reign of Peter Rareş (1527–1538, 1541–1546) shows an unneglectable variability depending on the purpose, addressee and format of the texts. Using ...

• Bulgarians, Cumans, Teutons, and Vlachs in the First Decades of the Thirteenth Century 

  Ivanov, Ivelin (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-10-12)

  The article refers to some aspects of the history of today’s Bulgarian and Romanian territories, going back to the end of the 12th and the beginning of the 13th century. First, the author emphasizes the impact of the ...

• Some Questions about the Slavic Tribes that participated in the Anti-Bulgarian Uprisings along the Mid-Danube in the First Decades of the 9th Century 

  Hrissimov, Nikolay (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-21)

  The article tries to answer three questions related to the tribes that came into conflict with the Bulgarian state during its expansion to the west in the first third of the 9th century. And the questions addressed in it ...

• Повесть о юноше и чародее в славянской книжности 

  Gritsevskaya, Irina M.; Lytvynenko, Viacheslav V. (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-28)

  A Narrative about a Young Man and the Magician Mesites in the Slavonic Medieval Tradition. This article is devoted to the study of the Narrative about the Young Man and Magician that widely circulated in the Medieval ...

• The Attack of the Rus’ on Constantinople in the Light of the Chronicon Bruxellense 

  Fylypchuk, Oleksandr (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-28)

  The Chronicon Bruxellense does not simply provide useful information on the date of the date (year, month, and day) of the Rus’ attack on the Constantinople (18 June 860), but is crucial for a deeper understanding of nature ...

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