Book Reviews: Vladimír Vavřínek, Encyklopedie Byzance [Encyclopedia of Byzantium], s autorskou spoluprací Petra Balcárka, Nakladatelství LIBRI, Slovenský Ústav AV ČR, Praha 2011, pp. 550.
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
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Jan Wolski
Eparchikon biblion V, 2: Is Thalassai the Same as Byssos?
The article examines a kind of fabric described as ‘θάλασσαι’ in The Book of the Prefect (Τὸ ἐπαρχικὸν βιβλίον). The meaning of this term by both editors and commentators of the document has not been satisfactorily expla...
Some Anti-heretic Fragments in the 14th Century Bulgarian Canon Law Miscellanies
It is well known that the major anti-heretic written source from the Second Bulgarian Empire is the Tsar Boril’s Synodicon, proved to have been compiled to serve the Synod against the Bogomils, convened in Tărnovo in 121...
Remarks on the Letter of the Patriarch Theophylact to Tsar Peter in the Context of Certain Byzantine and Slavic Anti-heretic Texts
The Letter of patriarch Theophylact to tsar Peter is the oldest, but seemingly not the most informative Greek source for the history of Bogomilism. It is in essence a standard document, a typical product of the patriar...
Health and Culinary Art in Antiquity and Early Byzantium in the Light of De re Coquinaria
The article is aimed at indicating and analyzing connections existing between De re coquinaria and medicine. It is mostly based on the resources of extant Greek medical treatises written up to the 7th century A.D. As s...
Book Reviews: А.А. Чекалова, Сенат и сенаторская аристократия Константинополя. IV - первая половина VII века, Наука, Москва 2010, pp. 338.
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