Browsing Studia Ceranea Vol. 2/2012 by Title
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Health and Culinary Art in Antiquity and Early Byzantium in the Light of De re coquinaria
; Rzeźnicka, Zofia
; Jagusiak, Krzysztof (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2012)
The article is aimed at indicating and analyzing connections existing between De re coquinaria and medicine. It is mostly based on the resources of extant Greek medical treatises written up to the 7th century A.D. As ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Taxes in the Mediterranean. Ancient Roman Perspective. Preface
Filipczak, Paweł; (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2012)
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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 ... -
The Church of Divine Wisdom or of Christ – the Incarnate Logos? Dedication of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople in the Light of Byzantine Sources from 5th to 14th century
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2012)The article attempts to answer the question of how the name of the most important Byzantine church of Constantinople, the basilica of Hagia Sophia, built in the mid-4th cent., and then rebuilt during the reign of Justinian ... -
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.) ...