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Between Rebellion and Statesmanship: Attempting a Biography of Ivanko, 1196/1200 (?)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)The paper analyses the actions of Ivanko, a Bulgarian nobleman, possibly a member of the ruling family of the Asenides, who in 1196 killed the ruling tsar, Asen, and escaped to Constantinople once his plan to take control ... -
Byzantine Battleships and Military Transport Vessels along the Hostile Shores
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)The establishment of the Bulgarian Khanate along the Lower Danube River and the Northern Black Sea coast changed the geo-political situation in the early medieval Southeastern Europe. It is beyond doubt that the Bulgarians ... -
The Byzantine Garden. What to Plant in the Garden according to 12th Book of Geoponica by Cassianus Bassus?
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)The main aim of this paper is to analyse the text of the 12th book of Geoponica for the purpose of identification of vegetable plants, which were described by Cassianus Bassus. The analysis will serve as the first step for ... -
Captives and Refugees. The Forced Migration of the Inhabitants of the Byzantine Eastern Frontier during the 5th–7th Centuries in Light of Byzantine-Slavic Hagiographical Texts
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)This article is devoted to the image of a social situation in the eastern parts of the Byzantine Empire during the 5th–7th century, which is to be found in the East Christian hagiographical texts. They cannot be treated ... -
Christian Heretical Participation in the Rebellion of Börklüce Mustafa and Sheikh Bedreddin – Reappraising the Evidence
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)The outbreak and Balkan and Anatolian trajectories of the rebellions of Borkluce Mustafa and Sheikh Bedreddin in 1416 still pose a series of religio-historic problems which still do not allow a satisfactory and detailed ... -
Commonwealth of Interest in the Rus’ian-Byzantine Treaty (ca. 944)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)The preamble to the Rus’ian-Byzantine treaty, which was concluded around 944, contains dozens of anthroponyms – the names of members of the Kyivian elite, their envoys as well as merchants. Several of them can be identified ... -
The Concept of Whole Substance in Galen’s "Simple Medicines"
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)Galen’s great treatise on drugs, Simple Medicines, begins with 5 theoretical books which explain the mechanisms of drug actions in the following catalogues. The key agent of change is the mixture of the qualities hot, cold, ... -
Constantine X Doukas (1059–1067) versus Uzes – about the Nomads on Boats on the Danube in 1064
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)The reign of the Doukas dynasty in 1059–1078 was a time when new threats to the Byzantine Empire emerge in Europe and Asia. One of them was the increased activity of Turkmen who were penetrating the lands belonging to the ... -
Crusading in Livonia and Byzantine Romania Considered in a Comparative Review. Key Issues and Historiographical Notes
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)The article focuses on a topic that so far has not been studied in a comparative approach. The author addresses some basic problems of the comparative research, focusing on the general and the specific causes, the course, ... -
The De haeresibus et synodis of Germanos I of Constantinople as a Source on Early Byzantine Heresies? Prospects of a Critical Edition
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)A new, critical edition of the 8th-century treatise De haeresibus et synodis (CPG 8020) by Patriarch Germanus I of Constantinople is in progress; it will provide new insights, especially into the large extent of sources ... -
Dietary Calendars in the Slavic Middle Ages: A Case Study
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)Thе article attempts to delineate the boundaries of dissemination of dietary calendars in the Balkan Slavic cultural area through the evidence that can be obtained from the names, places, and very rarely patrons, found in ... -
The Early Christians in the Face of Epidemics
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)The purpose of the article is to present the reaction of the early Christians to the emergence and the spread of the great epidemics. During the early Christian ages (2nd–3rd centuries) different plagues devastated people ... -
An Ethnographic Catalogue in George the Monk’s Chronicle
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)In Book I of George the Monk’s Chronicle we read a long chapter dedicated to Alexander the Great, which includes an extensive section on his encounter with the Brahmans and the description of their customs. In particular, ... -
The Eulogy of Symeonic Miscellany: the Imperial Patronage of the First Slavic Anthology
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)The essay proposes an interpretation of the eulogy of Symeon’s Miscellany considering not only the cultural context of the First Bulgarian Empire at the beginning of the tenth century, but also the historical situation and ... -
From Enemies to Allies: the Mystery of Prince Oleg’s Campaign against Constantinople
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)This article proposes a rethinking of the main patterns of Rus-Byzantine relations at the turn of the 9th–10th centuries. The Christianization of some groups of Rus’ elite after 860 seems to be plausible, but short-lived. ... -
Galen, Body and Soul in Vita Cyrilli XI, 13–20
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)The paper points to a hitherto not recognized quotation from Galen in the Old Church Slavonic Life of S. Cyril of the 9th century (chapter XI, 15) which demonstrates the Galenic maxim “contraria contrariis curentur”. The ... -
General Overview of the Three-dimensional Architectural Models as Acroteria in Medieval Georgia
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)Medieval architecture of the South Caucasus developed a unique tradition of making acroteria shaped as three-dimensional models of churches. Since the church-shaped acroteria have never been thoroughly explored in Georgia, ... -
If not Bogomilism than What? The Origins of Catharism in the Light of the Sources
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)Since the end of the twentieth Century the traditional interpretation of Catharism, assuming it’s Eastern roots and dualist character is the object of a harsh criticism, formulated by the deconstructionist scholars. The ...