Przeglądaj Studia Ceranea Vol. 10/2020 według tytułu
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
A Companion to the Byzantine Culture of War, ca. 300–1204, ed. Yannis Stouraitis, Brill, Leiden–Boston 2018 [= Brill’s Companions to the Byzantine World, 3], 6 maps, 3 figures, index, pp. X, 490.
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Constantine’s City: the Early Days of a Christian Capital
Berger, Albrecht
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-06-02)
In his new city Constantinople, Constantine the Great established an imperial cult with pagan elements prevailing over Christian ones. This can be seen from a number of monuments and buildings, such as the Forum of Constantine ... -
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.
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Genealogy as a Method to Legitimise Rulership in Some Balkan and Scandinavian Sources
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-23)This paper will focus on several sources from Scandinavia and the Balkans, and compare the types of genealogies portrayed in them – descent from gods, descent from another kind of supernatural being, descent from a legendary ... -
Georgios Theotokis, Byzantine Military Tactics in Syria and Mesopotamia in the Tenth Century. A Comparative Study, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 2018, pp. 348.
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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 ... -
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 ... -
John the Scythian – a Slayer of Usurpers and the Isaurians
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-23)The paper is devoted to John the Scythian – one of the chiefs of the Byzantine army in the eighties and nineties of the 5th century. Based on the sources, the military career of John the Scythian lasted 16 years. He spent ... -
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 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, ... -
The Linguistic Creation of a City in the 16th-century Polish Accounts from Travels to the Holy Land
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-23)The article tries to describe the linguistic creation of a city in Polish 16th-century diaries from journeys to the Holy Land. During long trips, the authors visited many exotic, for the Polish traveller, cities and towns ... -
The Monastic Diet in the Light of Medical Science. Theodoret of Cyrus and Medics on Dates and Figs
; Jagusiak, Krzysztof; (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 ... -
Nikephoros Bryennios the Younger – the First One Not to Become a Blind Man? Political and Military History of the Bryennios Family in the 11th and Early 12th Century
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-23)Nikephoros Bryennios the Younger has a place in the history of Byzantium as the author of one of the works devoted to the Komnenos family coming to power. This outstanding observer and talented leader, who was fascinated ... -
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 ... -
Pope Honorius (625–638) – a Pacifist or a Doctrinal Arbiter?
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-23)The purpose of this article is to analyze the standpoint of Pope Honorius (625–638) at the early stage of the controversy over operation in Christ. Patriarch Sophronius (633/634–638) expressed his protest against the ... -
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 ...