Browsing Studia Ceranea Vol. 10/2020 by Issue Date
Now showing items 1-20 of 29
-
Halina Evert-Kappesowa, (Co-)Founder of Post-War Polish Byzantine Studies
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-23)This article aims to expand information on the life and academic career of a historian from Łódź, the co-founder of Polish post-war Byzantine studies – Halina Evert-Kappesowa. Based on student files preserved at the ... -
The Spoils of War “Divided into Three Parts”: A Comparison between Two Accounts in Skylitzes’ Synopsis historiarum and Kritoboulos’ History of Mehmed the Conqueror
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-23)One can say without hesitation that during the highly dynamic medieval epoch rivalries and military clashes were of paramount importance in the struggles for dominance over the Balkan Peninsula. During the entire period, ... -
Barbarians on the Coins of Trajan Decius (249–251):
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-23)During Trajan Decius’s reign (249–251) in a number of provincial mints – Alexandria, Caesarea Maritima, Magnesia ad Sipylum and Nicomedia – coins were issued featuring the theme of the barbarian (an enemy or a captive) in ... -
ПЛАМЕН ПАВЛОВ, Забравеното Средновековие [Plamen Pavlov, The Forgotten Middle Ages], Българска История, София 2019, pp. 303.
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-23) -
The Labarum – from Crux Dissimulata and Chi-Rho to the Open Image Cross
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-23)Based on the testimony of emperor Constantine the Great himself, Eusebius of Caesarea presented a labarum in the form of crux dissimulata crowned with the Chi-Rho. The continuers of his Church History in the next century, ... -
Responsibilities of the Church Steward in the Light of The Canons of Pseudo-Athanasius
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-23)The office of a steward was known in Egypt back in the time of the Pharaohs. It appears that in the East, this function first emerged in the structures of the Egyptian Church. The Canons of Pseudo-Athanasius, which probably ... -
Georgios Theotokis, Byzantine Military Tactics in Syria and Mesopotamia in the Tenth Century. A Comparative Study, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 2018, pp. 348.
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-23) -
Historical Master Narratives and the Master Narrative of the Bulgarian Middle Ages
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-23)The article is a brief and schematic presentation of the notion of a “master narrative” and of the master narrative of the Bulgarian Middle Ages, which is the subject a detailed book of mine in Bulgarian. This master ... -
Crypto-Christianity and Religious Hybridisation in the Ottoman Balkans: a Case Study (1599–1622)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-23)In this paper I intend to address the issue of crypto-Catholicism in the early Ottoman Balkans, a complex phenomenon which has drawn historians’ attention over the decades. More specifically, I will attempt to define and ... -
The Emperor in the Byzantine World. Papers from the Forty-Seventh Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, ed. Shaun Tougher, Routledge, New York–London 2019 [= Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies Publications, 21], 32 figures, index, pp. XXIII, 378.
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-23) -
Some Remarks on the Significance of Gold Based on Byzantine Ekphraseis of Works of Art
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-23)The abundance of gilding is considered to be a particularly characteristic feature of Byzantine art. This attribute can be confirmed by even a cursory analysis of works of art. In short, Byzantine artists used gold on a ... -
Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy in the Mythologem of “Heavenly Customs”, between Rumanian Popular Books and Folklore
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-23)The article shows that the mythologem associated with the ascension of the soul, despite its very antique origin and its presence as a citation in the writings of the Fathers of the Eastern Church, emerges with time ... -
Power and Aristocracy – Transformation and Composition of the Komnenos “Clan” (1081–1200) – A Statistical Approach
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-23)The fall of imperial authority and the decline of the Byzantine state at the end of the 12th century has its cause not only in foreign policy but also, to a large extent, in the family policy of the Komnenoi emperors. The ... -
Scribal Habits in the Slavonic Manuscripts with Athanasius’ Second Oration against the Arians
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-23)This article introduces the readers to the scribal habits/practices in ten Slavonic manuscripts that contain Athanasius’ Second Oration against the Arians. These scribal habits are classified and analyzed according to ... -
Textile Prices in Early Byzantine Hagiographic Texts. Three Case Studies
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-23)This text analyzes three early Byzantine source accounts on clothing prices from the beginning of the 5th to the early 7th centuries in Italy (Rome), Palestine (probably in Jerusalem), and Egypt (Alexandria). The compiled ... -
The Apocryphal Bulgarian Sermon of Saint John Chrysostom on the Оrigin of Paulicians and Manichean Dimensions of Medieval Paulician Identity
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-23)The article deals with one of the medieval Bulgarian sources about the origin of Paulicianism – the so called Sermon of Saint John Chrysostom on the Оrigin of Paulicians. On the basis of linguistic, textological and ... -
John the Water-Bearer (Ивань Водоносьць). Once Again on Dualism in the Bosnian Church
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-23)The article examines the debate as to the direct influence of Bulgarian and Byzantine Bogomilism upon the doctrine of the Bosnian Church. The author traces some scholarly views pro et contra the presence, in the Bosnian-Slavic ... -
The Burden, the Craving, the Tool. The Provisioning of the 10th Century Byzantine Army in the Light of Leo’s Tactica and Sylloge Tacticorum
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-23)It seems obvious that 10th century was a period in which the Byzantine polemology flourished once again, before it collapsed one hundred years later. During that period numerous authors of Byzantine military treaties ... -
The Monastic Diet in the Light of Medical Science. Theodoret of Cyrus and Medics on Dates and Figs
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-23)The aim of this article is to present the menu of early Christian monks in the context of the findings of Greek and Roman medicine in the field of dietetics. It draws from the passages of Historia religiosa by Theodoret ... -
Utopian Elements in Porphyry’s De abstinentia
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-23)In the long passage of De abstinentia, IV, 2–18, Porphyry mentions a series of “groups” (ἔθνη) as examples of abstinence from animal food: the ancient Greeks of the “golden age”, the Lacedaemonians of Lycurgus’ era, the ...