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Faces of Aeneas. Representations on Roman Coins and Medallions
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016)On the basis of numismatic material I present aspects of the figure of Aeneas as they appear in ancient tradition. I have concentrated on the iconographic details and the arrangement of the reverse scenes which allow one ... -
The Family Strategy for Purple – Comparing the Methods of Andronikos I and Alexios I Komnenos of Constructing Imperial Power
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)In this paper I would like to concentrate on strategies and methods that were guiding Alexios I and Andronikos I of the Komnenos dynasty during the process of gaining and consolidating their power in the Byzantine Empire. ... -
Female Monastic Patronage in Medieval Georgia: Queen Tamar and Her Monastery in Tighva
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-30)Tighva Monastery was founded by Queen Consort Tamar, the daughter of David the Builder, a famous Georgian king who succeeded in uniting the country and making it a dominant regional power. According to the written sources, ... -
A Few Remarks on the Ransom Paid for Releasing Captives in Selected Early Byzantine Hagiographic Texts
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The article analyzes certain early Byzantine hagiographic texts concerning various forms of brigandage (both maritime and land-based). Two such accounts are studied in detail, one by Gerontius of Jerusalem and another by ... -
The First Woman Yamī, Her Origin and Her Status in Indo-Iranian Mythology: Demigoddess or Half-human? (Evidence from R̥gveda 10.10, Iranian Parallels and Greek Relatives)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)This paper focuses on the mythology of Yamī and her twin-brother Yama (the first humans according to Indo-Iranian mythology), their non-human origin and some aspects of Yamī’s behaviour which presumably betray a number of ... -
Food for Life: Galen’s "On Health" ("De sanitate tuenda")
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-30)In Galen’s view, health was a natural state and disease unnatural. If a body became unwell, balance was best restored by adjustments to daily life, in particular to the environment, food and drink, exercise, sleep, ... -
Food of Plant Origin in the Life of Early Medieval Bulgarians (End of 7th – Beginning of 11th Century)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The article surveys the available data on food of plant origin used in the period of the First Bulgarian Empire. The information is based on written sources and paleobotanical data, which show the presence of diverse plants ... -
From Enemies to Allies: the Mystery of Prince Oleg’s Campaign against Constantinople
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)This article proposes a rethinking of the main patterns of Rus-Byzantine relations at the turn of the 9th–10th centuries. The Christianization of some groups of Rus’ elite after 860 seems to be plausible, but short-lived. ... -
From Paganism to Christianity. General Remarks on the Religious Changes in Petra (1st–6th Cent. AD)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)The aim of this paper is to shed some light on the period of Petra’s passage from paganism to Christianity, which saw the deterioration of pagan beliefs and the struggle for survival between paganism and Christianity. The ... -
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Fund Collection through Litigation by the State Treasury in the Roman Empire (with Special Reference to the First Three Centuries A.D.)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2012)The paper discusses the confiscation of property (publicatio bonorum) as a source of revenue for the fiscus in ancient Rome. The term fiscus means, among other things, the public property, State funds, but also the private ... -
Future Constructions in the Medieval South Slavonic Translations of Vita Antonii Magni
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-28)This paper aims at systemising the observations on the constructions used for expressing Future tense in the three known Old Slavonic translations of Vita Antonii Magni by Athansius Alexandrinus. The text was first translated ... -
Galen, Body and Soul in Vita Cyrilli XI, 13–20
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)The paper points to a hitherto not recognized quotation from Galen in the Old Church Slavonic Life of S. Cyril of the 9th century (chapter XI, 15) which demonstrates the Galenic maxim “contraria contrariis curentur”. The ... -
Garum or Grain? Crimea and the Provisioning of Constantinople (7th to 9th centuries)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-30)Historians have relied for too long on written sources (the letters that Pope Martin I wrote from Cherson, as well as De Administrando Imperio) to assess the economic situation in the Crimea, especially in Cherson, during ... -
Genealogy as a Method to Legitimise Rulership in Some Balkan and Scandinavian Sources
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-23)This paper will focus on several sources from Scandinavia and the Balkans, and compare the types of genealogies portrayed in them – descent from gods, descent from another kind of supernatural being, descent from a legendary ... -
General Overview of the Three-dimensional Architectural Models as Acroteria in Medieval Georgia
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)Medieval architecture of the South Caucasus developed a unique tradition of making acroteria shaped as three-dimensional models of churches. Since the church-shaped acroteria have never been thoroughly explored in Georgia, ... -
Georgios Theotokis, Byzantine Military Tactics in Syria and Mesopotamia in the Tenth Century. A Comparative Study, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 2018, pp. 348.
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Girolamo Arnaldi, Federico Marazzi, "Tarda Antichità e Alto Medioevo in Italia" ["Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages in Italy"], Viella, Roma 2017, 232 pp.
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Gnesioi filoi: George Syncellus and Theophanes the Confessor – Addenda
(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 ... -
Gnesioi filoi: the Search for George Syncellus’ and Theophanes the Confessor’s Own Words, and the Authorship of Their Oeuvre
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015)In a nutshell: 1. I believe that Ekloge Chronographias of George Syncellus and Chronographia of Theophanes the Confessor should be treated as a single project, undertaken in turn by two authors; 2. There are important ...