Browsing Studia Ceranea Vol. 2/2012 by Title
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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 ... -
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
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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.) ...