Studia Ceranea Vol. 2/2012

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Editorial Board
Georgi Minczew (Editor-in-Chief)
Mirosław J. Leszka (Co-Editor-in-Chief)
Kirił Marinow (Scientific Secretary)
Małgorzata Skowronek (Scientific Secretary)
Andrzej Kompa
Karolina Krzeszewska (Secretary)

Editorial Council
doc. dr hab. Hana Gladkova (Uniwersytet Karola w Pradze)
prof. James Douglas Howard-Johnston (Corpus Christi College, Oxford)
prof. nadzw. dr Ewald Kislinger (Uniwersytet w Wiedniu)
prof. Eliza Małek (Uniwersytet Łódzki)
ks. prof. Józef Naumowicz (Uniwersytet im. Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego)
dr hab. Szymon Olszaniec (Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika)
prof. Stefano Parenti (Pontificio Ateneo S. Anselmo, Rzym)
prof. Rustam Shukurov (Uniwersytet Moskiewski)
dr Yuri Stoyanov (Uniwersytet w Londynie)

Reviewers (vol. 2, 2012)
Stanisław Adamiak (Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome), Hassan Badawy (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Katarzyna Balbuza (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań), Jacek Bonarek (Jan Kochanowski University of Humanities and Sciences in Kielce / Piotrków Trybunalski), Ilona Czamańska (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań), Wojciech Dajczak (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań), Cristiano Diddi (University of Salerno), Jarosław Dudek (University of Zielona Góra), Andrzej Gillmeister (University of Zielona Góra), Fiona Haarer (University of London), Marek Jankowiak (University of Oxford), Rafał Kosiński (University of Białystok), Marzanna Kuczyńska (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań), Franciszek Longchamps de Bérier (Jagellonian University in Cracow), Ireneusz Mikołajczyk (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń), Angel Nikolov (St. Clement of Ohrid University of Sofia), Georgi N. Nikolov (St. Clement of Ohrid University of Sofia), Zdzisław Pentek (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań), Günter Prinzing (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz), Bernardo Bissoto Queiroz de Moraes (University of São Paulo), Silvia Schiavo (University of Ferrara), Bronisław Sitek (University of Warmia-Mazury in Olsztyn), Yuri Stoyanov (University of London), Lawrence Totelin (Cardiff University), Frank Trombley (Cardiff University)

Linguistic editor
For English – Frederick Lauritzen

Cover designed by Sebastian Buzar
On the cover: Fragment of an inscription with the law of the emperor Anastasius I, concerning the custom and tax regulations in Hellespont, found in Abydos (Çanakkale, today in Archaeological Museum, Istanbul, nr inv. 3016 T)

Edition is financed by:
Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Poland
Pro-Rector in Charge of Research of the University of Łódź
The Director of the Centre of Tax Documentation and Studies of the University of Łódź

The issue is published in cooperation with the Library of the University of Łódź.

CONTENT

Taxes in the Mediterranean. Ancient Roman Perspective

1. Preface
Paweł Filipczak, Przemysław Kubiak
2. Peculatus – several remarks on the classification of the offence of embezzlement of public funds in Roman law
Krzysztof Amielańczyk
3. Fund Collection through Litigation by the State Treasury in the Roman Empire (with special reference to the first three centuries A.D.)
Marzena Dyjakowska
4. Imprisonment of tax non-payers – an abuse of Power or a measure of legal discipline?
Przemysław Kubiak
5. On some Fiscal decisions of caligula and vespasian
Anna Pikulska-Radomska
6. Remarks on some tax exempts in Ancient Rome
Piotr Sawicki
7. The abuses of exactores and the laesio enormis – a few remarks
Jacek Wiewiorowski

Articles

1. 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
Zofia Brzozowska
2. Islam, Arabs and Umayyad rulers according to Theophanes the Confessor’s Chronography
Błażej Cecota
3. A „Divine Sanction” on the Revolt: The Cult of St. Demetrios of Thessalonike and the Uprising of Peter and Asen (1185–1186)
Anastasia Dobyčina
4. Quss Ibn Sa’ida al-Iyadi (6th–7th cent. A.D.), Bishop of Najran: An Arabic and Islamic Cultural Hero
Marek M. Dziekan
5. St. Symeon the New Theologian and Western Dissident Movements
Bernard Hamilton, Janet Hamilton
6. Health and Culinary Art in Antiquity and Early Byzantium in the Light of De re coquinaria
Maciej Kokoszko, Zofia Rzeźnicka, Krzysztof Jagusiak
7. Moving through Medieval Macedonia: Late Modern Cartography, Archive Material and Hydrographic Data Used for the Regressive Modelling of Transportation Networks
Mihajlo Popović
8. The Defence of the Long Walls of Thrace (ΜακράΤείχητῆςΘρᾴκης) under Justinian the Great (527–565 A.D.)
Jacek Wiewiorowski
9. Periodic Revival or Continuation of the Ancient Military Tradition? Another Look at the Question of the katafraktoi in the Byzantine Army
Michał Wojnowski
10. Digital Presentation of Bulgarian Lexical Heritage. Towards an Electronic Historical Dictionary
Anna-Maria Totomanova

Book Reviews

1. Vasilka Tăpkova-Zaimova, Anisava Miltenova, Historical and Apocalyptic Literature in Byzantium and Medieval Bulgaria
Ivan Biliarsky
2. Священное Писание как фактор языкового и литературного развития. Материалы Международной конференции „Священное Писание как фактор языкового и литературного развития (в ареале авраамических религий)”, Санкт-Петербург, 30 июня 2009 г., ed. Е.Н. Мещерская
Zofia Brzozowska
3. Abū Ğa‘far Muhammad Ibn Ğarīr At-Tabarī, Historia proroków i królów. Z dziejów Bizancjum (do połowy VII wieku). Z języka arabskiego przetłumaczył, wstępem i komentarzami zaopatrzył Filip Andrzej Jakubowski
Błażej Cecota
4. Martin Hurbanič, Posledná vojna antyki. Avarský útok na Konštantínopol roku 626 v historických súvislostiach
Błażej Cecota
5. Mary Beard, Pompeii. The Life of a Roman Town / Pompeje. Życie miasta
Paweł Filipczak
6. Илия Илиев, Св. Климент Охридски. Живот и Дело
Dimo Češmedžiev
7. А.А. Чекалова, Сенат и cенаторская aристократия Константинополя IV – первая половина VII века
Andrzej Kompa, Mirosław J. Leszka
8. František Čajka, Církevněslovanská legenda o svaté Anastázii
Małgorzata Skowronek
9. Jacek Bonarek, Bizancjum w dobie bitwy pod Mantzikert
Teresa Wolińska
10. Yuri Stoyanov, Defenders and Enemies of the True Cross. The Sasanian Conquest of Jerusalem in 614 and Byzantine Ideology of Anti-Persian Warfare
Teresa Wolińska
11. Vladimír Vavřínek, Encyklopedie Byzance, s autorskou spolupraci Petra Balcárka
Jan Mikołaj Wolski
12. Emperor and Author: The Writings of Julian the Apostate, eds. N. Baker-Brian, S. Tougher
Michał Zytka

Abbreviations

Guidelines for the authors

Recent Submissions

Book Reviews: František Čajka, Církevněslovanská legenda o svaté Anastázii [The Church-Slavonic Legend of St. Anastasia], Slovanský ústav AV ČR, Praha 2011, pp. 239 [= Práce Slovanského ústavu AV ČR, Nová řada, svazek 34].

Skowronek, Małgorzata (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2012)
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.

Zytka, Michał (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2012)
Book Reviews: Vladimír Vavřínek, Encyklopedie Byzance [Encyclopedia of Byzantium], s autorskou spoluprací Petra Balcárka, Nakladatelství LIBRI, Slovenský Ústav AV ČR, Praha 2011, pp. 550.

Wolski, Jan Mikołaj (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2012)
Book Reviews: Jacek Bonarek, Bizancjum w dobie bitwy pod Mantzikert. Znaczenie zagrożenia seldżuckiego w polityce bizantyńskiej w XI wieku [Byzantium in the Times of the Battle of Mantzikert. Significance of the Seljuk Threat in the Byzantine Policy of 11th Century], Towarzystwo Wydawnicze “Historia Iagellonica”, Kraków 2011, pp. 296 [= Notos – Scripta Antiqua et Byzantina, 7].

Wolińska, Teresa (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2012)
Book Reviews: Yuri Stoyanov, Defenders and Enemies of the True Cross: The Sasanian Conquest of Jerusalem in 614 and Byzantine Ideology of Anti-Persian Warfare, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 2011, pp. 103 [= Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 819, Veröffentlichungen zur Iranistik, 61].

Wolińska, Teresa (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2012)
Book Reviews: А.А. Чекалова, Сенат и сенаторская аристократия Константинополя. IV - первая половина VII века, Наука, Москва 2010, pp. 338.

Kompa, Andrzej ; Leszka, Mirosław J. (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2012)
Book Reviews: V. Tăpkova-Zaimova, A. Miltenova, Historical and Apocalyptic Literature in Byzantium and Medieval Bulgaria, East-West Publishers, Sofia 2011, pp. 605.

Biliarsky, Ivan (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2012)
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.

Češmedžiev, Dimo (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2012)
Book Reviews: Mary Beard, Pompeii. The life of a Roman town, Profile Books, London 2008, pp. 360 [Polish translation – Pompeje. Życie rzymskiego miasta, trans. N. Radomski, Dom Wydawniczy REBIS, Poznań 2010, pp. 414].

Filipczak, Paweł (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2012)
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.

Cecota, Błażej (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2012)
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].

Cecota, Błażej (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2012)
Book Reviews: Священное Писание как фактор языкового и литературного развития. Материалы Международной конференции „Священное Писание как фактор языкового и литературного развития (в ареале авраамических религий)”, Санкт-Петербург, 30 июня 2009 г., ed. Е.Н. Мещерская, Издательство «Дмитрий Буланин», Санкт-Петербург 2011, pp. 336.

Brzozowska, Zofia Aleksandra (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (Lodz University Press), 2012)
Moving through Medieval Macedonia: Late Modern Cartography, Archive Material and Hydrographic Data Used for the Regressive Modelling of Transportation Networks

Popović, Mihailo St. (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 ...
Health and Culinary Art in Antiquity and Early Byzantium in the Light of De re coquinaria

Kokoszko, Maciej; 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 ...
St. Symeon the New Theologian and Western Dissident Movements

Hamilton, Bernard; Hamilton, Janet (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 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

Brzozowska, Zofia Aleksandra (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 ...
Digital Presentation of Bulgarian Lexical Heritage. Towards an Electronic Historical Dictionary

Totomanova, Anna-Maria (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 ...
Periodic Revival or Continuation of the Ancient Military Tradition? Another Look at the Question of the Katáfraktoi in the Byzantine Army

Wojnowski, Michał (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 ...
The Defence of the Long Walls of Thrace (Μακρά Τείχη τῆς Θρᾴκης) under Justinian the Great (527–565 A.D.)

Wiewiorowski, Jacek (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.) ...
A „Divine Sanction” on the Revolt: The Cult of St. Demetrios of Thessalonike and the Uprising of Peter and Asen (1185–1186)

Dobyčina, Anastasia (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 ...