Book Reviews: ADRIAN SZOPA, Flavius Merobaudes. Wódz i poeta z V wieku [Flavius Merobaudes. General and Poet from the 5th century], Wydawnictwo AVALON, Kraków 2014, pp. 240.
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 2015, Vol 5, Issue
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Łukasz Pigoński
A Lost Byzantine Chronicle in Slavic Translation
Until recently the so-called Slavic version of the Chronicle of George Synkellos has not been paid proper attention. The attribution of Vasilij Istrin who in the beginning of the 20th c. identified the Slavic text as a t...
A “Divine Sanction” on the Revolt: The Cult of St. Demetrius of Thessalonica and the Uprising of Peter and Asen (1185–1186)
The paper examines the role of the cult of St. Demetrius of Thessalonica as a tool of maintaining legitimacy of the anti-Byzantine revolt in Tărnovo, 1185–1186, led by brothers Theodore- Peter and Asen-Belgun, which is...
The Iconographic Motif of a Griffin and a Hare on the So-called Saracenic-Sicilian Casket from the Wawel Cathedral Treasury in Cracow
The article examines a kind of community of aesthetic tastes that was connecting Arab and Byzantine courtly culture. This community concerned the secular and luxurious works of art. The silver casket, called a Saraceni...
Book Reviews: Luigi Santagati, Storia dei Bizantini di Sicilia, Edizioni Lussografica Caltanissetta, Caltanisetta 2012, pp. 421.
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Book Reviews: Арсен К. Шагинян, Армения и страны Южного Кавказа в условиях византийско-иранской и арабской власти, Алетейя, Санкт-Петербург 2011, pp. 511.
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