Book Reviews: А.А. Чекалова, Сенат и сенаторская аристократия Константинополя. IV - первая половина VII века, Наука, Москва 2010, pp. 338.
Journal Title: Studia Ceranea. Journal of the Waldemar Ceran Research Centre for the History and Culture of the Mediterranean Area and South-East Europe - Year 2012, Vol 2, Issue
Abstract
Book Review.
Authors and Affiliations
Mirosław Leszka, Andrzej Kompa
The Porphyry Column in Constantinople and the Relics of the True Cross
The complicated fates of the Porphyry Column of emperor Constantine resemble the reach and difficult history of Constantinople, the New Rome and capital of the eastern Empire from its very beginnings. Perceived by the Co...
Periodic Revival or Continuation of the Ancient Military Tradition? Another Look at the Question of the KATÁFRAKTOI in the Byzantine Army
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 elit...
The Image of the Town: Medieval Sofia in Original Bulgarian Works from the 16th Century
The paper follows out the way of denomination and description of Sofia town in manuscripts from different genre during the period of the 15th –17th centuries, namely: the original hagiographic and hymnographic works of...
Prisoners of War in Early Medieval Bulgaria (Preliminary Remarks)
The work is concentrated on the problem of war prisoners in the chronological period of the existance of the so-called First Bulgarian state. The analysis is based predominantly on various Byzantine and selected Latin...
Possessive Adjectives Formed from Personal Names in Polish Translations of the New Testament
The study focused on possessive adjectives derived by means of the suffixes -ow(y), -in, -sk- formed from proper personal names in old and contemporary translations of the New Testament. Adjectival derivatives have been...