• Georgios Theotokis, Byzantine Military Tactics in Syria and Mesopotamia in the Tenth Century. A Comparative Study, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 2018, pp. 348. 

  Różycki, Łukasz (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-23)

• 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. 

  Pełech, Tomasz (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-23)

• 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. 

  Pełech, Tomasz (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-23)

• ПЛАМЕН ПАВЛОВ, Забравеното Средновековие [Plamen Pavlov, The Forgotten Middle Ages], Българска История, София 2019, pp. 303. 

  Leszka, Mirosław J.; Marinow, Kirił (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-23)

• МАЯ ПЕТРОВА-ТАНЕВА, Помощница на царете: св. императрица Теофана в южнославянската традиция [Maja Petrova-Taneva, Supporter to the Tsars: Saint Empress Theophano in the South Slavic Tradition], Издателски център Боян Пенев, София 2018, pp. 335. 

  Biliarsky, Ivan (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-23)

• The Burden, the Craving, the Tool. The Provisioning of the 10th Century Byzantine Army in the Light of Leo’s Tactica and Sylloge Tacticorum 

  Wierzbiński, Szymon (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 Linguistic Creation of a City in the 16th-century Polish Accounts from Travels to the Holy Land 

  Zarębski, Rafał (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 ...

• Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy in the Mythologem of “Heavenly Customs”, between Rumanian Popular Books and Folklore 

  Valmarin, Luisa (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 ...

• The Apocryphal Bulgarian Sermon of Saint John Chrysostom on the Оrigin of Paulicians and Manichean Dimensions of Medieval Paulician Identity 

  Saldzhiev, Hristo (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 ...

• Textile Prices in Early Byzantine Hagiographic Texts. Three Case Studies 

  Milewski, Ireneusz (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 ...

• John the Water-Bearer (Ивань Водоносьць). Once Again on Dualism in the Bosnian Church 

  Minczew, Georgi (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 ...

• Halina Evert-Kappesowa, (Co-)Founder of Post-War Polish Byzantine Studies 

  Kolbuszewska, Jolanta (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 ...

• John the Scythian – a Slayer of Usurpers and the Isaurians 

  Leszka, Mirosław J. (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 ...

• Barbarians on the Coins of Trajan Decius (249–251): 

  Kluczek, Agata (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 Spoils of War “Divided into Three Parts”: A Comparison between Two Accounts in Skylitzes’ Synopsis historiarum and Kritoboulos’ History of Mehmed the Conqueror 

  Hristov, Yanko; Kitanov, Valentin (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, ...

• Pope Honorius (625–638) – a Pacifist or a Doctrinal Arbiter? 

  Kashchuk, Oleksandr (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 ...

• Responsibilities of the Church Steward in the Light of The Canons of Pseudo-Athanasius 

  Hołasek, Andrzej (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 ...

• Historical Master Narratives and the Master Narrative of the Bulgarian Middle Ages 

  Daskalov, Roumen (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 ...

• The Labarum – from Crux Dissimulata and Chi-Rho to the Open Image Cross 

  Bralewski, Sławomir (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, ...

• Crypto-Christianity and Religious Hybridisation in the Ottoman Balkans: a Case Study (1599–1622) 

  Notarfonso, Silvia (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 ...

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