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Tărnovgrad Viewed by the Others: the Case of Niketas Choniates
Studia Ceranea, 2021 The text is devoted to the analysis of the portrayal of Tărnovo, the new capital of the restored near the end of the twelfth century Bulgarian state, in the historical work and speeches by Niketas Choniates, a Byzantine historian, official and ...
Kirił Marinow
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Heraclius. A Commander in the Service of Leo I and Zeno
Studia Ceranea, 2023 Heraclius’ career, the one that can be traced in primary sources, lasted seven years. In its course he held the position of comes rei militaris and, perhaps, magister militum vacans and magister militum per Thracias.
Mirosław J. Leszka
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“Ex Marte se procreatum” – Did the Roman Emperor Galerius Make Mars his Personal Protective Deitie?
Studia Ceranea, 2023 Lactantius referred in his work On the Deaths of the Persecutors (De mortibus persecutorum) to a great victory which Caesar Galerius won over the Persians.
Sławomir Bralewski
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Истраживања, 2021 The paper examines the concept of family patrimony on the example of three medieval monarchies between the mid-11th and late 12th centuries. Though far away from one another, Spain, England and Serbia witnessed almost identical political circumstances ...
IVANA KOMATINA, PREDRAG KOMATINA
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John the Scythian – a Slayer of Usurpers and the Isaurians
Studia Ceranea, 2020 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.
Mirosław J. Leszka
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The Image of Muhammad in Riccoldo da Monte di Croce’s "Contra legem Sarracenorum"
Studia Ceranea, 2019 Contra legem Sarracenorum written by the Dominican Riccoldo da Monte di Croce was considered one of the most influential medieval Christian anti-Islamic polemics.
Maciej Dawczyk
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The Byzantine and Hungarian Syrmia in the 10th–13th centuries [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta, 2018 It has been long known that the name “Syrmia” in the Middle Ages meant not only the area between the rivers Sava and Danube, but also the territory on the right bank of the Sava, today’s Mačva, which was called in the sources “Further Syrmia ...
Komatina Ivana, Komatina Predrag
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The Arabs in the Chronicle of Constantine Manasses
Studia Ceranea, 2019 This paper looks into the piece by Constantine Manasses considering how it depicts the Arabs. It appears Manasses saw the Arabs primarily as bloody and cruel plunderers who invaded the Byzantine lands.
Mirosław J. Leszka, Mikołaj Deckert
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The Labarum – from Crux Dissimulata and Chi-Rho to the Open Image Cross
Studia Ceranea, 2020 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.
Sławomir Bralewski
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Sergius, the Paulician Leader, in the Account by Peter of Sicily
Studia Ceranea, 2019 Peter of Sicily, a Byzantine high official from the times of Basil I, intended to warn the Archbishop of Bulgaria against certain heretics, known as the Paulicians, as he learned during his mission to Tefrike about their plans of sending their ...
Teresa Wolińska
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