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Quss Ibn Sa’ida al-Iyadi (6th–7th cent. A.D.), Bishop of Najran: An Arabic and Islamic Cultural Hero
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2012)
The article deals with the half-legendary Quss Ibn Sa’ida from an ancient North Arab tribe
Iyad, who is believed to have been a bishop of the Yemeni city of Najran and a monk (anachorete). The sources from the Quranic and ...
Characteristics of Roman Female Deities
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)
Ancient Romans’ sacral community established a cohesive and complex religious system. Its reflection was a multi-figural pantheon of gods with a variety of sacral functions that were supposed to meet the most essential ...
Medical Science of Milk Included in Celsus’ Treatise De medicina
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016)
Milk was a very significant food product in the Mediterranean. The present study is not devoted to milk as such, but to therapeutic galactology, galaktologia iatrike (γαλακτολογία ἰατρική), a version of which is extant in ...
Asparuh and His People on the Lower Danube through the Eyes of Theophanes, or a Story that Was Not Meant to Happen
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)
The Bulgarians’ settlement in the Lower Danube area constituted one of the most significant events in the history of the Balkan Peninsula in the Middle Ages. The Danube Bulgaria’s rise and its territorial expansion changed ...
Bread as Food and Medicament in Oribasius’ Writings
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016)
Treatises left by Oribasius (first and foremost his Collectiones medicae and Eclogae medicamentorum) preserve a vast body of information on the varieties of bread eaten in late antiquity, characterise them from the point ...
The Chickpea (ἐρέβινϑος; Cicer arietinum L) as a Medicinal Foodstuff and Medicine in Selected Greek Medical Writings
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)
Leguminous plants were a crucially important element in the Mediterranean diet, and, as such, these plants were second only to cereals. It is also important to note that according to medical writings preserved from antiquity ...
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 ...
Professor Oktawiusz Jurewicz as a Byzantinist (1926–2016)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016)
The authors summarize the academic legacy of late Oktawiusz Jurewicz and his role as a leading Polish byzantinist of the second half of the 20th century. The text is supplemented by the detailed and updated bibliography ...
Book Reviews: А.А. Чекалова, Сенат и сенаторская аристократия Константинополя. IV - первая половина VII века, Наука, Москва 2010, pp. 338.
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2012)
Kandaulos: the Testimony of Select Sources
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2011)
The current study attempts to trace the history and retrieve the recipe of a specific dish called kándaulos/kándylos. It was a Greek delicacy developed in Lydia and named after a Lydian ruler, known by the name Candaules. ...