Browsing Studia Ceranea Vol. 2/2012 by Issue Date
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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 ... -
Peculatus – Several Remarks on the Classification of the Offence of Embezzlement of Public Funds in Roman Law
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2012)The offence of embezzlement of public funds – peculatus – is an interesting research subject due to the Roman legislator’s original approach to the issue of the classification of types of criminal offences (crimina). The ... -
On Some Fiscal Decisions of Caligula and Vespasian
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2012)The history of the Roman Empire is a history of continuously looking for new sources of state revenues. Numerous public loads, spontaneously created during the early Empire, without any deeper analysis, created a disordered ... -
Imprisonment of Tax Non-payers – an Abuse of Power or a Measure of Legal Discipline?
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2012)In the field of taxation there existed many casuistic crimes of Roman criminal law, committed both by tax payers and tax collectors, but non-payment of taxes was not one of them. As a rule taxpayers risked confiscation of ... -
Remarks on Some Tax Exempts in Ancient Rome
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2012)The author tries to classify the tax privileges that existed in Ancient Rome. He gives a few examples of reliefs and exemptions, and provides their short legal and lexical analyses. Finally, he discusses whether some of ... -
The Abuses of Exactores and the Laesio Enormis – a Few Remarks
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2012)The text discusses in detail the emperor’s constitution concerning the abuses of tax collectors in Africa (CTh, X, 17, 3 = CJ, IV, 44, 16 – a. 391/392), arguing against associating it with the idea of laesio enormis developed ... -
Periodic Revival or Continuation of the Ancient Military Tradition? Another Look at the Question of the Katáfraktoi in the Byzantine Army
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2012)This article discusses the question of origin and identity of katáfraktoi – heavy-armoured cavalry in Byzantium. In the specialist literature on the subject, there is a widespread opinion that the heavily-armoured elitist ... -
St. Symeon the New Theologian and Western Dissident Movements
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2012)The trial at Orleans in 1022 of a group of aristocratic clergy, who included the confessor of Queen Constance of France, and their followers on the charge of heresy is the most fully reported among the group of heresy ... -
The Defence of the Long Walls of Thrace (Μακρά Τείχη τῆς Θρᾴκης) under Justinian the Great (527–565 A.D.)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2012)The paper discusses the question of the defence of the Long Walls of Thrace (Μακρά Τείχη τῆς Θρᾴκης) or the Anastasian Wall (Αναστάσειο Τείχος) under Justinian the Great (527–565 A.D.). Emperor Anastasius I (491–518 A.D.) ... -
Moving through Medieval Macedonia: Late Modern Cartography, Archive Material and Hydrographic Data Used for the Regressive Modelling of Transportation Networks
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2012)The aim of this article is to illustrate how the rich data which was gathered during the scholarly work on Macedonia, Southern Part (Tabula Imperii Byzantini, 11) as well as on Macedonia, Northern Part (Tabula Imperii ... -
Digital Presentation of Bulgarian Lexical Heritage. Towards an Electronic Historical Dictionary
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2012)The article presents the results of the project “ICT Tools for Historical Linguistic Studies”, funded by the European Social Fund, OP Human Resources. The main project goal was to elaborate electronic tools for creating ... -
Book Reviews: Abū Ğa‘far Muhammad Ibn Ğarīr At-Tabarī, Historia proroków i królów. Z dziejów Bizancjum (do połowy VII wieku) [History of the Prophets and Kings. Byzantine History (to the middle 7th c.)]. Z języka arabskiego przetłumaczył, wstępem i komentarzami zaopatrzył Filip Andrzej Jakubowski, Instytut Historii UAM, Poznań 2011, pp. 207 [= Źródła, 2].
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Islam, the Arabs and Umayyad Rulers according to Theophanes the Confessor’s Chronography
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2012)As the Chronography of Theophanes the Confessor includes a lot of information about the foreign states and tribes which were connected with the Byzantine Empire. It is legitimate, in the Author’s view, to analyse the ... -
Book Reviews: Илия Илиев, Св. Климент Охридски. Живот и дело [Saint Clément d’Ohrid. Vie et oeuvre], Фондация Българско историческо наследство, Пловдив 2010, pp. 262.
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A „Divine Sanction” on the Revolt: The Cult of St. Demetrios of Thessalonike and the Uprising of Peter and Asen (1185–1186)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2012)The paper examines the role of the cult of St. Demetrius of Thessalonica as a tool of maintaining legitimacy of the anti-Byzantine revolt in Tărnovo, 1185–1186, led by brothers Theodore- Peter and Asen-Belgun, which is ... -
Book Reviews: V. Tăpkova-Zaimova, A. Miltenova, Historical and Apocalyptic Literature in Byzantium and Medieval Bulgaria, East-West Publishers, Sofia 2011, pp. 605.
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Book Reviews: Emperor and author: The writings of Julian the Apostate, eds. Nicholas Baker-Brian, Shaun Tougher, The Classical Press of Wales, Cardiff 2012, pp. 384.
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Book Reviews: Martin Hurbanič, Posledná vojna antiky. Avarský útok na Konštantínopol roku 626 v historických súvislostiach [The Last War of Antiquity. The Avar Siege of Constantinople, 626, in Historical Sources], Vydavatel’stvo Michala Vaška, Prešov 2009, pp. 377.
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Abbreviations
; ; Skowronek, Małgorzata
; ; Kompa, Andrzej ; (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2012)
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; ; Skowronek, Małgorzata; ; Kompa, Andrzej ; (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2012)