Results 11 to 20 of about 500 (118)

Was Constantine the Great Aware of the Constantinian Shift?

Studia Ceranea, 2019
In this article, I try to answer the following question: was Constantine himself aware of the revolution that he was carrying out? Did he realise that his actions were going to change the course of the history of the Empire?
Sławomir Bralewski
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

“Philosopher” and “Philosophy” in Kyivan Rus’ Written Sources: of the 11-14th centuries. The Need for a new Asking of the “Old” Question

Sententiae, 2021
The author justifies the need to return to an analysis of the meaning of such words as “philosophy” and “philosopher” in the Kyivan Rus’ written sources of the 11th–14th centuries.
Oleksandr Kyrychok
doaj   +1 more source

“Where do these terrible diseases and pestilences come from?”. Illness in the Roman World in Light of the Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius of Caesarea

Studia Ceranea, 2022
Eusebius of Caesarea did not put diseases at the center of his introduction to Church History. He used them instrumentally to promote his theses. Therefore, he neither referred to the medical knowledge of that time nor did he conduct their scientific ...
Sławomir Bralewski
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

Lilingis, the Bastard Half-Brother of Illus

Studia Ceranea, 2021
The paper is devoted to Lilingis – one of the leaders in the Isaurian uprising against emperor Anastasius I. He was Illus’ half-brother. Illus was an Isaurian who, aside from Zeno, played the most important role in the life of the Byzantine state in the ...
Mirosław J. Leszka
doaj   +1 more source

Τέρνοβος, ἐν ᾗ τὰ βασίλεια ἦν τῶν Βουλγάρων: the Role of the Bulgarian Capital City According to Ῥωμαϊκὴ ἱστορία by Nikephoros Gregoras

Studia Ceranea, 2022
The paper is devoted to a detailed analysis of direct and indirect references to Tărnovo, the capital of the so-called Second Bulgarian Tsardom (12th–14th centuries) in Roman history of Nikephoros Gregoras, an outstanding Byzantine scholar of the first ...
Kirił Marinow
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

Marcellinus Comes on Emperor Anastasius A Handful of Remarks

Studia Ceranea, 2022
Anastasius was for Marcellinus not only a historical figure, but a ruler whose reign he was first able to observe from the perspective of his native Illyricum, and later as an inhabitant of Constantinople.
Mirosław J. Leszka
doaj   +1 more source