CERANEUM

- Project funded by the IDUB, Interdisciplinary Research Programs, 2023, entitled  Medieval Byzantine-Slavic Heresiology, Emotions and Arguments carried out in 2024-2026 by a team led by Dr. Jan Mikołaj Wolski. Participating in the work are Prof. Georgi Minczew, and Prof. Malgorzata Skowronek (both Department of Slavic Philology). The planned result of the project is a series of academic papers.

- Grant from the National Science Center (the OPUS 24 programme, panel HS3), entitled Hamartolos rediscovered. Byzantine Chronicle of George Monk from the 9th century in the light of hitherto unpublished Greek and Orthodox Slavic manuscripts, carried out at the Ceraneum Center of the University of Lodz (2023-2027) in cooperation with the Department of History and International Relations of the University of Bialystok (under a consortium agreement). The project is interdisciplinary in nature. The two main substantive executors, overseeing research on manuscript material, are dr. hab. Rafal Kosinski, professor at the University of Bialystok (Greek codex) and dr hab. Zofia A. Brzozowska, professor at the University of Lodz (Department of Slavonic Philology, Faculty of Philology, University of Lodz - Orthodox Slavonic manuscripts). Planned outcome of the project: book publications (edition and translation of the chronicle) and scientific articles in periodicals of international scope, indexed in Web of Science and Scopus databases;

- Grant of the Minister of Science (Excellent Science II, Module of Support for Scientific Conferences) entitled Towards the Application of Humanistic Research: Reconstruction and the Study of Historical Sources, carried out in 2024-2025 under the direction of Prof. Maciej Kokoszko.

- Grant from the National Science Centre (27th edition of OPUS) entitled The Slavic Life of Euthymius Zygabenos's Treatise Dogmatike panoplia.Heresiology of the Byzantine Commonwealth Circle in the 13th–16th Centuries, carried out at the Department of Slavic Philology, University of Lodz (2025–2029) by a team led by Dr. Hab.Małgorzata Skowronek, prof.UŁ, composed of: Prof. Dr. Hab.Georgi Minczew, Dr. Agata Kawecka and Prof. Mariyana Tsibranska-Kostova and Prof. Ivan Biliarski (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences).The aim of the project is to examine the tradition of the Church Slavonic translation of the treatise Dogmatikē panoplia;

- Grant of the Ministry of Education and Science (12th edition of NPRH, module: Universalia 2.2) entitled In the Shadow of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth or Russian Imperial Myth? Kiev Synopsis - a monument of Ukrainian language and historiography of Eastern Europe from the 17th century. Edition, Polish translation and scholarly study, carried out at the Department of Slavonic Philology of the University of Lodz (2023-2027) by a team consisting of Halyna Naienko, Ph.D., Prof. of the University of Lodz (project leader), Zofia A. Brzozowska, Ph.D., Prof. of the University of Lodz, and Piotr Kręzel, Ph. D. The aim of the project is to prepare a critical edition, a Polish translation and a comprehensive scholarly study of the Kiev Synopsis - a latopis first published in Kiev in 1674, which is the oldest Ukrainian interpretation of native history, shown at the background of Eastern European history;

- Grant from the Ministry of Education and Science (11th edition of NPRH, Module: Universalia 2.2) entitled Between Serbia, Austria, Poland and Russia. Memoirs of Simeon Piščević (1731-1797) - translation into Polish and scientific study of a unique monument of Slavic memoirs from the 18th century, carried out in the Department of Slavic Philology under the direction of Dr. Piotr Kręzel (2023-2027). Also participating in the research team is Dr. Sanja Miletić from the same unit. The aim of the project is to prepare a translation and critical study of the Memoirs of Simeon Piščević;

– Grant of the National Science Centre (call: BEETHOVEN CLASSIC 4, panel: HS2) entitled Orthodox Slavic Linguistic Varieties at the Threshold of Modernity: Continuity and Innovation. A Mixed-Methods Approach, carried out at the Department of Slavic Philology at the Faculty of Philology, University of Lodz, in cooperation with the investigators from the Department of Slavic Studies at the University of Freiburg, Germany. The leader of the Polish part of the project is Prof. Ivan N. Petrov from the Department of Slavic Philology (University of Lodz), and the leader of the German part of the project is Prof. Achim Rabus from the University of Freiburg. The project team also includes: Dr. Zofia A. Brzozowska, Dr. Agata Kawecka and Prof. Małgorzata Skowronek from the Department of Slavic Philology, University of Lodz (2022–2025).
 

– Project financed under the IDUB program, Interdisciplinary Research Grants ed.2023, entitled Ars medica (1525–1650): the heritage of European medical thought and the art of printing, carried out in 2024–2026 by a team led by dr hab. prof.UŁ Magdalena Koźluk from the Institute of French Studies, University of Lodz.The work involves the Institute of French Studies, University of Lodz (dr hab. prof. UŁ Magdalena Koźluk), the University of Lodz Library (dr Monika Sulejewicz-Nowicka, mgr Tomasz Piestrzyński), the Department of Classical Philology (dr Marta Czapińska-Bambara), the Ceraneum Center and the Department of Slavic Philology (dr hab. prof. UŁ Ivan N. Petrov).Planned project result: a series of scientific articles.

– Project financed by the Scientific Research Foundation of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Bulgaria Богомилството в историята и в наши дни, carried out by: Sofia University, the Institute of Historical Research of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, New Bulgarian University, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg and the Ceraneum Center of the University of Lodz (prof. dr hab. Georgi Minczew, dr hab. prof. UŁ Małgorzata Skowronek), planned for 2024–2026.

 

– Project financed by the Bulgarian Ministry of Science and Education, entitled Mapa interaktywna skryptoriów w średniowiecznej Bułgarii (Интерактивна карта на скрипториумите в Средновековна България), implemented by Prof. Georgi Minczew (2020–);

– Project financed by Ministry of Education and Science in the framework of the program Development of scientific journals issue of successive issues of the yearbook Studia Ceranea. Journal of the Waldemar Ceran Research Centre for the History and Culture of the Mediterranean Area and South-East Europe, carried out in cooperation with the University of Lodz Publishing House (2023-2024);

– Grant of the Minister of Education and Science (Excellent Science II, Module of Support for Scientific Conferences) entitled Selected Aspects of Everyday Life in the Age of Antiquity and Byzantium in the Light of Interdisciplinary Research, carried out in 2023-2024 under the direction of Dr Zofia Rzeźnicka.

– Grant of the National Science Centre (call: MINIATURA 6, panel: HS) entitled Martyrium of Sts. Karpos and Papylos in Constantinople (Istanbul), its frescoes and their identification, carried out in the Department of Byzantine History of the Faculty of Philosophy and History by Dr. Andrzej Kompa (2023). Expected results: a research trip to libraries in Vienna and Istanbul, examining the frescoes in the Martyrium of Sts.Karpos and Papylos;

– Grant of the National Science Centre (call: SONATINA 3, panel: HS2), entitled The Cultural Implications of the Migrations of Serbs in the Early Modern Era, carried out by Piotr Kręzel from the University of Lodz, Faculty of Philology in cooperation with Prof. Izabela Lis-Wielgosz from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Faculty of Polish and Classic Philology (2019–2022);
Part of the platform Mapping Eastern Europe in the 13th–17th Centuries (2020 Rapid Response Magic Project of the Princeton University Humanities Council, USA): https://mappingeasterneurope.princeton.edu/item/the-cultural-implications-of-the-migrations-of-ser.html

– Grant of the National Science Centre (call: OPUS 17, panel: HS2), entitled How deep in the past is ‘deeper’? The comparative degree in the Slavic languages – origin, evolution, typology, carried out by a research consortium formed by the Department of Slavic Studies at the University of Lodz and the Institute of Polish Language at the Polish Academy of Sciences. The principal investigator of the project will be Dr. Marek Majer, assistant professor at the Department of Slavic Studies at the University of Lodz; the co-investigator from the Polish Academy of Sciences will be Dr. Rafał Szeptyński (2020–2023);

– Grant of the National Science Centre (the Harmonia 9 program, panel HS), entitled Orthodox Slavic Polemical Writings in the Middle Ages, carried out at the Department of Slavic Philology at the Faculty of Philology, University of Lodz by a team composed of: prof. dr hab. Georgi Minczew (coordinator), dr Zofia Brzozowska, dr Agata Kawecka, dr Marek Majer, dr hab. Ivan Petrov, dr Małgorzata Skowronek and dr Jan Wolski, an employee of the Ceraneum Center, University of Lodz and dr Anna Maciejewska, an employee of the Foreign Languages Center, University of Lodz. The project will be implemented in cooperation with foreign partners from universities and academic institutions of Bulgaria, Denmark and Italy on the formal rights of project co-contractors (2018–2023);
Part of the platform Mapping Eastern Europe in the 13th–17th Centuries (2020 Rapid Response Magic Project of the Princeton University Humanities Council, USA): https://mappingeasterneurope.princeton.edu/item/orthodox-slavic-polemical-writings-in-the-middle-a.html

– Grant of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (National Programme for the Development of Humanities in the module Universals 2.1), entitled Translation into Russian language and publication in “Aletheia” Scientific Publishing House, as a part of the series „Византийская библиотека”, a monograph by Zofia A. Brzozowska „Sofia – upersonifikowana Mądrość Boża. Dzieje wyobrażeń w kręgu kultury bizantyńsko-słowiańskiej”, carried out by monograph’s author, with engagement of Jan Morawicki from the Ceraneum Centre and Department of Slavic Studies, University of Lodz, as a translator (2020–2023);
Part of the platform Mapping Eastern Europe in the 13th–17th Centuries (2020 Rapid Response Magic Project of the Princeton University Humanities Council, USA): https://mappingeasterneurope.princeton.edu/item/sophia-wisdom-of-god-personified-history-of-per.html

– Grant of the National Science Centre (the Opus 16 program, panel HS3), entitled Eastern Roman Military Elites from Theodosius II to Anastasius I (408-518). A Socio-Political Study, carried out in the Ceraneum Centre by a team led by prof. dr hab. Mirosław J. Leszka (2019–2023). Expected results: two book publications and series of articles.

– Project financed by the OPUS Centre, entitled Horyzonty humanistyki 2023: łódzkie spotkania z zagranicznymi badaczami antyku, średniowiecza i nowożytności, part of the program Łódź akademicka – naukowa, kreatywna i wielokulturowa 2023, implemented at the Ceraneum under supervision of dr Zofia Rzeźnicka and dr. Jan Wolski, with participation of the UŁ Foundation. As part of the project, Łódź will be visited by eminent specialists in ancient and Byzantine medicine and historians of culture (March—November 2023),

– Grant of the Bulgarian government agency “Research Foundation“, entitled Bulgaria on the Edge of Christianity, Paganizm and Heresies. The Old Bulgarian Translation of the Discourses against the Arians, carried out by prof. Georgi Minczew from the Departmentof Slavic Studiesat the Facultyof Philology, University of Łódź, a member of the project team headed by prof. Tatiana Sławowa from the  Faculty of Slavic Philology, Sofia University (2019–2021),

– Project financed by the OPUS Centre, entitled Horyzonty humanistyki. Nowe osiągnięcia mediewistyki światowej w Łodzi, part of the program Łódź akademicka – naukowa, kreatywna i wielokulturowa 2022, implemented at the Ceraneum under supervision of dr Zofia Rzeźnicka and dr. Jan Wolski, with participation of the UŁ Foundation. As part of the project, Łódź will be visited by eminent specialists in ancient and Byzantine medicine and historians of heresy (April—December 2022),

– Grant of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (National Programme for the Development of Humanities  in the module Universals 2.1), entitled Translation and publication of I. Petrov’s monograph “From Incunabula to First Grammars. Contexts of the Development of the Bulgarian Literary Language (Late 15th – Early 17th Century)”, carried out by Prof. Dr. Ivan Petrov of the Department of Slavic Studies, University of Lodz, with engagement of dr Marek Majer of the Department of Slavic Studies, University of Lodz, as a translator (2019–2021);
Part of the platform Mapping Eastern Europe in the 13th–17th Centuries (2020 Rapid Response Magic Project of the Princeton University Humanities Council, USA): https://mappingeasterneurope.princeton.edu/item/from-incunabula-to-first-grammars-contexts-of-the.html

– Visiting Research Fellow Project within the framework “Excellence Initiative – Research University Programme”, entitled Slavonic Versions and Translations of the Homily “De salute animae”, Attributed to John Chrysostom or Ephraem the Syrian, and Their Textual History, carried out in the Ceraneum Centre by prof. Aneta Dimitrova from the University of Sofia (2021);

– Grant of the National Science Centre (the Opus 12 program, panel HS3), entitled Muhammad and the Origin of Islam – Stereotypes, Knowledge and Notions in the Byzantine-Russian Culture, carried out in the Ceraneum Centre by a team led by dr Zofia Brzozowska (2017–2021). Expected results: two book publications;
Part of the platform Mapping Eastern Europe in the 13th–17th Centuries (2020 Rapid Response Magic Project of the Princeton University Humanities Council, USA): https://mappingeasterneurope.princeton.edu/item/muhammad-and-the-origin-of-islam-stereotypes-kn.html

– Grant of the National Science Centre (the Harmonia 8 program, panel HS), entitledDualist Heresies in the History of South-East Europe (9th-15th century), carried out by a team of Ceraneum workers and members led by Prof. G. Minczew from the Department of Southern Slavic Studies, Faculty of Philology of UŁ,  in collaborationwith the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Sofia and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (2017–2021);
Part of the platform Mapping Eastern Europe in the 13th–17th Centuries (2020 Rapid Response Magic Project of the Princeton University Humanities Council, USA): https://mappingeasterneurope.princeton.edu/item/dualist-heresies-in-the-history-of-south-east-euro.html

– Grant of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education within the framework of funds for dissemination of research results, entitled Edition of English-language version of the “Studia Ceranea. Journal of the Waldemar Ceran Research Centre for the History and Culture of the Mediterranean Area and South-East Europe” (2019–2020), carried out in collaboration with the University of Łódź Publishing House;

– Grant of the international program “Transnational Access to Special Collections and Archival Documents” (TAAD) run by the Europe-wide Consortium Research Infrastructure on Religious Studies (ReIReS) entitled Materials for teaching the Old Church Slavic language in Bulgaria (19th–21st cent.), carried out by dr Agata Kawecka from the Department of Slavic Philology at the University of Lodz (2019); the project includes a several-week academic apprenticeship at a selected partner institution – Center for Byzantine-Slavic Studies “Ivan Duychev” at the University of Sofia;

– Grant of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (National Program for the Development of Humanities, “Uniwersalia” 2.2 module), entitled The Novgorod First Chronicle – Polish Translation and Scientific Account of the Oldest Chronicle of Novgorod the Great, carried out in the Ceraneum Centre by a team led by dr Zofia Brzozowska, in collaborationwith the IT Department at the Faculty of Physics and Applied Informatics, University of Łódź (2017–2019). Expected results: a book publication, preparing the electronic version of the text and making it accessible;
Part of the platform Mapping Eastern Europe in the 13th–17th Centuries (2020 Rapid Response Magic Project of the Princeton University Humanities Council, USA): https://mappingeasterneurope.princeton.edu/item/the-novgorod-first-chronicle-polish-translation.html

– Grant of the National Science Centre (the Sonata Bis 1 program, panel HS), entitled Reception of the literary output and folk culture of Slavia Orthodoxa circle in Poland – history and bibliography of the translatory production, carried out in the Ceraneum Centre by a team led by Ph.D. I. Petrov from the Department of Slavonic Philology of UŁ (2013–2018). Expected result: two book publications;

– Grant of the National Science Centre (the Miniatura 2 program, panel HS), entitled Research on the morphology of early Slavic borrowings in the Albanian language,  carried out at the Department of Slavic Philology at the Faculty of Philology, University of Lodz by dr Marek Majer (2018–2019). Goals: participation in the Slavic Linguistics Society Meeting scientific conference (USA), preparation of texts to be published in international scientific journals; 

– Grant of the National Science Centre (the Miniatura 1 program, panel HS), entitled Ancient and Byzantine cosmetology. Myrrh and frankincense in beauty products (1st–7th c. AD), carried out in the Ceraneum Centre by dr Zofia Rzeźnicka (2018). Goals: a few foreign queries, preparation of source texts to be published in international scientific journals;

– Grant of the National Science Centre (the Harmonia 6 program, panel HS), entitled The Bulgarian State in 927-969. The Epoch of Tsar Peter I the Pious, carried out in the Ceraneum Centre by a team led by Prof. M. Leszka from the Department of History of Byzantium, University of Łódź, in collaboration with the University of Sofia (Bulgaria) (2015–2018). Expected result: an English book publication;

– Grant of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education within the framework of funds for dissemination of research results, entitled Edition of English-language version of the “Studia Ceranea. Journal of the Waldemar Ceran Research Centre for the History and Culture of the Mediterranean Area and South-East Europe” (2017–2018), carried out at the Ceraneum Centre in collaboration with the University of Łódź Publishing House, a part of the larger grant awarded to the Publishing House UŁ. The coordinators are: dr hab. Ivan Petrov from the Ceraneum Centre (Secretary of the Editorial Board of “Studia Ceranea” and employee of the Department of Slavic Studies at the Faculty of Philology, University of Łódź) and PhD Agnieszka Kałowska from the University of Łódź Publishing House;

– Grant of the National Science Centre (the Etiuda 4 program, panel HS), entitled Christian everyday life in East according to the Church normative sources (IV-V Century), carried out by mgr A. Hołasek, a doctoral student in the Department of History of Byzantium. The project is implemented in cooperation with the Pontificio Istituto Orientale in Rome. During the project (2016–2017) mgr A. Hołasek will take a three-month research internship at the PIO in Rome;

– Grant entitled Bulgaria. History and Culture (academic monography – development and prepress), financed by theHonorary Consul ofthe Republic of Bulgariain Wrocławand carried out bya team led by Prof.G.Minczewin the Departmentof Slavic Studiesat the Facultyof Philology, University of Łódź (2015);

– International educational project within the framework of LLP-Erasmus Intensive Programme (IP), funded by the Bulgarian Human Resource Development Centre, acting as the Erasmus National Agency in this country, entitled Standards of Everyday Life in the Middle Ages and in Modern Times (3 editions: 2012, 2013, 2014); the project is being implemented by a consortium consisting of:
St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Turnovo (Bulgaria) – coordinator
St. Clement of Ohrid University of Sofia (Bulgaria)
University of Łódź (Ceraneum, as well as the Department of Byzantine History and the Department of Ethnology and Folklore – Faculty of Philosophy and History; coordinator: Dr. Hab. Prof. of the UŁ Maciej Kokoszko)
Uludag University (Bursa, Turkey)
Ankara University (Turkey)
Ovidius University (Constanța, Romania).
The program is interdisciplinary and is based on a series of lectures, seminars, talks, group work and thematic tours, which include the field studies planned for the second and third year of the IP. Its main objectives are: dissemination and application of diverse methodologies in the study of historical, anthropological and ethnological issues on an academic level; discussion on modern, interdisciplinary topics related to study of everyday life of people belonging to various social groups in different historical epochs; giving prominence to innovative approaches combining methodology typical to anthropology and ethnology, as well as multidisciplinary character of history teaching at academic level; creation of favourable conditions for direct and active contact and exchange of ideas between students and lecturers from various countries; bringing about international cooperation between universities that could aid in developing future joint projects.
The target groups of the IP are outstanding students from such fields as history, ethnology, tourism and anthropology, as well as doctoral students working on topics and problems related to those of the IP;

– Grant of the National Science Centre (the Harmony 2 program, panel HS3), entitled Byzantium and the Arabs. A meeting of civilizations in 6th-8th centuries, carried out in the Ceraneum Centre by a team led by Dr. Hab. Prof. of the UŁ T. Wolińska in collaboration with the Aristotle University in Thessalonica (Greece); the team consists of the staff of the Faculty of Philosophy and History of the UŁ and of the Faculty of International and Political Studies of the UŁ (2012-2015). Expected result: a Polish-English book publication, a website and an internet platform;

– Grant of the Humanities in European Research Area (“Cultural Encounters” cycle), entitled Defining and Identifying Middle Eastern Christian Communities in Europe, carried out by scholars from Scottland, Denmark and Poland (2013–2015); Polish part of the project is headed by Dr. Marta Wozniak from the Faculty of International and Political Studies of the UŁ;

– Grant of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (the third edition of the programme “Mobilność Plus”), entitled Ruch monastyczny w drugim carstwie bułgarskim i jego rola społeczna, carried out in the Ceraneum Centre by MA Jan Wolski, a doctoral student in the Department of History of Byzantium, University of Łódź. During the project (2014–2015) MA Jan Wolski will take an annual internship at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Sofia;

– an NCN grant (program Preludium 2, panel HS2), entitled Sophia – Wisdom of God personified. History of perceptions in the Byzantine-Slavic culture, carried out by Mgr. Z. Brzozowska in the Department of Byzantine History at the Faculty of Philosophy and History of the UŁ (2012-2015). Expected result: a doctoral thesis, articles in Polish and in foreign languages;

– an NCN grant (program Opus 1, panel HS3) entitled Food for the body and soul. Nutrition and culinary arts of antiquity and early Byzantium, 2nd-7th centuries, carried out by a team led by Dr. Hab. Prof. of the UŁ M. Kokoszko in the Department of Byzantine History of the Faculty of Philosophy and History of the UŁ (2011-2014). Expected result: a monograph in Polish and English, articles in Polish and English, primary source translations;

– Project co-financed by the City of Łódź within the framework of the competition for the promotion of Łódź as a research and academic centre (2014), entitled Organizacja Międzynarodowej Konferencji Naukowej XI Dni Arabskie. Ciągłość i zmiana w świecie islamu. Responsible for the implementation of the task is the Department of Middle East and North Africa, Middle East Student Association “Al-Mashriq”, Faculty of International and Political Studies of the University of Lodz (Coordinator: prof. zw. dr hab. Marek Dziekan) in collaboration with the Ceraneum Centre;

– Grant of the Marshal of the Łódź Region for prominent young researchers (second edition), entitled Patronka zabytkowej łódzkiej cerkwi – święta księżna Olga. Rys biograficzny, historia kultu i polski przekład korpusu źródeł, carried out by MA Z. Brzozowska, a doctoral student in the Department of History of Byzantium, University of Łódź (2014); expected result: a book publication;

– Grant of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (National Program for the Development of Humanities, the module for dissemination of research results 3.1), entitled Translation into French and printing of the book by Prof. Waldemar Ceran, entitled „Rzemieślnicy i kupcy w Antiochii i ich ranga społeczna (II połowa IV wieku)”, (=The Scientific Committee on Ancient Culture, Philological Archive XIX), Wrocław – Kraków: Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich 1969, pp. 134, carried out in the Ceraneum Centre under the direction of Dr. Hab. Prof. of the UŁ S. Bralewski and Dr. P. Filipczak (2011-2013). Result: a book publication;

– Project co-financed by the the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, within the framework of dissemination of research results (2013), entitled Publication of the second issue of the journal “Studia Ceranea. Journal of the Waldemar Ceran Research Centre for the History and Culture of the Mediterranean Area and South-East Europe”, implemented in Ceraneum Centre in collaboration with the Library of the University of Lodz (Coordinator: director Tomasz Piestrzyński) within a broader grant awarded BUŁ;

– Project co-financed by the City of Łódź within the framework of the competition for the promotion of Łódź as a research and academic centre (2013), entitled Organizacja Międzynarodowej Konferencji Naukowej Biblia Slavorum Apocryphorum. III. Varia. Responsible for the implementation of the task is the Ceraneum Center (Coordinator: Dr. Hab. Prof. of the UŁ Georgi Minczew) in collaboration with the Department of Southern Slavic Studies of the Faculty of Philology and the Department of Byzantine History of the Faculty of Philosophy and History;

– International educational project within the framework of LLP-Erasmus Intensive Programme (IP), funded by the Bulgarian Human Resource Development Centre, acting as the Erasmus National Agency in this country, entitled Syncretic Societies: Bridging Traditions and Modernity? Balkan Summer School for Religion and Public Life (2013); the project is being implemented by a consortium consisting of:
Plovdiv University „Paisiy Hilendarski” (Bulgaria) – coordinator
University of Eastern Finland (Finland)
Istanbul Bilgi University (Turkey)
University of Bucharest (Romania)
University of Milan (Italy)
University of Łódź (Ceraneum, and the Department of Southern Slavic Studies – Faculty of Philology; coordinator: Dr. Hab. Prof. of the UŁ Georgi Minczew)
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece).
The project of the Balkan Summer University began as an initiative of the Faculty of Philosophy and History of the University of Plovdiv, focused on the issue of the place of religion in society.
The inaugural session of the program “Syncretic societies – combining tradition with modernity” is scheduled for August 2013 in Plovdiv. Representatives of the universities, clergy, media and leaders of non-governmental agencies will be invited to participate. Classes will take the form of traditional academic lectures, field practices and group sessions requiring involvement of the participants.
The organizers are aiming to assist in identifying religious prejudices and enabling a reflection through transformation of common opinions which would lead to opening up to different religious traditions rather than perceiving them as a threat. This goal will also be furthered by practical teaching of tolerance and of living within the diverse global society;

– Project of the Ceraneum Centre entitled Translation and publication of the first issue of the journal “Studia Ceranea”, co-funded by the City of Łódź within the framework of the competition for implementing the project “Cooperation with universities” for the promotion of Łódź as a research and academic centre (2011). The project resulted in publication of the journal;

– Grant of the Ministry of Science and Higher Eductation, entitled: Digitized corpus of the Slavic Old Testament apocrypha. Palaeography, textual criticism and codicology, carried out by a team led by Dr. Hab. Prof. of the UŁ G. Minczew in the Department of Paleoslavistics and Folk culture of the Faculty of Philology (2008-2011). The main result of the project is the online publication on the Palaeoslavica website and the monographs: Biblia Slavorum Apocryphorum. Novum Testamentum, ed. G. Minczew, M. Skowrotnek and I. Petrov, Łódź 2009 and Г. Минчев, Слово и обред. Тълкуванията на литургията в контекста на други културно близки текстове на славянското средновековие, Cофия 2011;

– Grant of the Ministry of Science and Higher Eductation, entitled: Constantinople – the New Rome and its inhabitants from the 4th to the beginnings of the 7th century, carried out by a team led by Dr. Hab. Prof. of the UŁ M. Leszka in the Department of Byzantine History of the Faculty of Philosophy and History (2007-2010). The main results of the project are the publications: M. J. Leszka, T. Wolińska (eds.), Constantinople. New Rome. The city and the people during the early Byzantine period, Warszawa 2011 and A. Kompa, M. J. Leszka, K. Marinow (eds.) From the studies on the early Byzantine Constantinople in: “Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Historica” 87, Łódź 2011.

 

Dear Colleagues,

It is for the sixth time that we have the pleasure of inviting you to take part in the international, interdisciplinary scholarly conference Colloquia Ceranea, organised by the Waldemar Ceran Research Centre for the History and Culture of the Mediterranean Area and South-East Europe “Ceraneum”, University of Łódź, Poland, to take place between 9 and 11 May 2024.

As in the recent years, Colloquia Ceranea VI will be held in a hybrid mode. However, as our meetings tend to turn into lively discussions (which are often continued after the official debates) and since we are planning a few extras to the main sessions, we would encourage you to visit Łódź in person.

 

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27A Kaminskiego Street, Łódź

 

Plenary lectures will be delivered by:

• Dr. Andrew Dalby (independent scholar, profile): A last dinner with Alexander (abstract)
• Prof. Alessia Guardasole (French National Centre for Scientific Research, profile): ‟So that those who are searching can find them easily”: Crito's Cosmetics table of contents in Galen's Compound drugs according to places; how Galen's censuring marked the success of a work. (abstract)

 

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

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ABSTRACTS

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Links for the online proceedings

 

 

 

 

In 2024 Colloquia Ceranea will be held under the auspices of:

• The Committee on Ancient Culture of the Polish Academy of Sciences
• The Commission for the Investigation of Byzantine Medical Studies, International Association of Byzantine Studies.

Moreover, we will be supported by our local and international partners, i.e.:

• Faculty of Philosophy and History, University of Łódź
• Institute of History, University of Łódź
• Department of Byzantine History, University of Łódź
• Department of Slavonic Philology, University of Łódź
• Faculty of History, University of Warsaw
• Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions (Washington, DC).

During our symposium, we would once again like to focus on issues from the main research fields of the Ceraneum Centre, i.e. food and medicine from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period, the history and culture of Byzantium and the Slavic World in the Middle Ages.

History of medicine and food

We intend to conduct further interdisciplinary discussion on various aspects of medical and culinary history in Antiquity and Byzantium. To that end we have secured collaboration with a group of eminent scholars representing diverse research areas to form the conference’s international Scientific Committee. They are:

• Dr. Alfred Galik, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
• Dr. phil. Dr. habil. Isabel Grimm-Stadelmann, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
• Prof. Alessia Guardasole, French National Centre for Scientific Research, Paris
• Dr. Andrew Dalby, independent scholar
• Prof. Maciej Kokoszko, University of Łódź
• Dr. Paulina Komar, University of Warsaw
• Dr. Erica Rowan, Royal Holloway, University of London
• Prof. Alain Touwaide, Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions, Washington, DC
• Prof. John Wilkins, Emeritus Professor, University of Exeter
• Dr. Barbara Zipser, Royal Holloway, University of London

The diverse fields of the committee members guarantee that the conference will be truly multidisciplinary, furthering our strong believe that only by means of mutual support will we be able to boldly step across the borders between our separate research fields, and thus paint a more holistic picture of everyday life in Antiquity and Byzantium in their social and economic context.

We are particularly interested in papers covering such topics as:

• Reception and modification of Greek medical theory in Byzantium;
• Transmission of ancient medical heritage into the Arab and Western world;
• Byzantine and Post-Byzantine medical manuscripts;
• Plant, animal and mineral substances in cosmetology and pharmacology from Antiquity to the modern times – continuity or change?;
• New arrivals in the cuisine and pharmacology of Byzantium;
• Dangerous foodstuffs: materia medica between poison and remedy;
• Archaeology of Ancient and Byzantine medicine;
• Archaeology of Ancient and Byzantine alimentation;
• Ancient and Byzantine dietary patterns;
• Reconstruction of ancient and Byzantine culinary recipes;
• Foods and medicaments as markers of social status in the Mediterranean of Antiquity and Byzantium.

State administration in the early Byzantine Empire (4^th – 7^th c. AD)

Since the reign of Emperor Diocletian, the governance of the Roman state went through such a profound transformation that its full understanding by modern scholars still remains only a postulate.

A number of new offices were created, the competences of which were never precisely defined. Although these were generally divided into civilian and military, the process was never ubiquitous nor uniform.

Eventually, for our contemporary norms based on precision and clarity of structures, the system of state governance was unclear and sometimes even chaotic. Other factors, undeniably present in the Roman administration of the late imperial period which were intensifying its disorganisation, were such vices as corruption and nepotism (both commonly condemned nowadays).

At the same time, it is generally accepted that the administrative changes introduced by Diocletian and continued by many of his successors, up to Justinian I, ensured that the Byzantine state was able to survive for hundreds of years. Thus, perhaps, what today we perceive as a symptom of administrative imperfections was, in fact, an intentional act of its creators. Such a complex administrative structure provokes a whole range of further questions: who administered the provinces, dioceses and prefectures, and how? Who were ‘Emperor’s men’? Were they loyal and merit-worthy ‘statesmen’, or rather the careerists they are usually perceived as in later epochs? What do we know about their ethnic or religious identity (and is it worth considering these issues today and were such issues considered in Antiquity)? How far did the division of the Roman state into smaller and smaller provinces affect the efficiency of the tax system? What was the real role of dioceses and prefectures in the governance of the whole Empire? Was there subordination of service, as one would expect from a strictly hierarchical structure? Finally, what effect did the transition from paganism to Christianity (which though reasonably smooth in the 4^th c. AD, later became more difficult) have on the functioning of the state administration?

Given the new publications on the Roman and Byzantine administration, and even on topics that would seem to have been well covered previously (prosopography is the best example), it proves that we are still seeking answers to the above-mentioned questions, as well as many others.

Medieval dualist heresies in the Balkans and Asia Minor, a return to the sources

Recent years have brought new editions and translations of the most important sources on Bogomilism: the works of Kosmas the Priest, Euthymius Zigabenos, Euthymius of Peribleptos and also minor writings on the subject. The work in this direction serves to strengthen our knowledge of the Bogomil heresy, as well as to clarify a number of specific issues related to the confessions or history of the heretics. Focusing research on the sources themselves is important because of how intricate the materials are and how incomplete a picture they give us. We should always distinguish between the interpretations, hypotheses and historiographical facts accumulated over the years and what is actually found in the actual texts that witness history. Therefore, it should also be appreciated that the "return to the sources" we have been observing in recent years is also being realized in another way: the subject of lively interest is the history of the discipline itself, that is, the history of the study of Bogomilism and related movements.

Submissions of papers on the heretical movements of the area and also on interreligious relations will be accepted, especially with a focus on the topics of Bogomilism, Paulicianism, the Patarenes; the eastern connections of the Cathars; new interpretations of original sources; analysis of the contradictory information from the source material or coherent reports from different traditions (apocryphal and heresiological, Latin and Greek, etc.)

As always, we await papers discussing other research fields, such as:

• material culture and everyday life;
• historical and political geography;
• historiography;
• peace and war studies;
• society, mores and social norms;
• education;
• language;
• art and visual culture;
• political culture and ideology.

CONFERENCE PUBLICATION:

Selected conference papers will be published in article format in “Studia Ceranea”, a yearly journal indexed in Scopus, the Web of Science Core Collection (Emerging Sources Citation Index), EBSCOhost, and a number of other databases.

The deadline for submitting papers to “Studia Ceranea” is May 31, 2024.

However, if you are not able to finish by that time, there will still be the possibility to deliver your text by December 31, 2024, for it to be published in the volume covering 2025.

You will find all editorial instructions on the journal’s website.

CONFERENCE FEE:

Transfer details and card payment.

CONFERENCE SECRETARIES:

• Dr. Krzysztof Jagusiak
• Dr. Karolina Krzeszewska
• Dr. Zofia Rzeźnicka
• Dr. Jan Mikołaj Wolski

Should you have any question, please contact us at colloquia.ceranea@uni.lodz.pl.

Projekt finansowany ze środków budżetu państwa, przyznanych przez Ministra Nauki w ramach Programu "Doskonała Nauka II".

 

 

 

VENUE:

Institute of History UL, 27A, Kaminskiego St. [GOOGLE MAPS]

& online

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BOOK OF ABSTRACTS:

You may download here the book of abstracts and programme in pdf file:

Book of abstracts

In person participants will get printed copies on arrival.

 

PROGRAMME of THE CONFERENCE:

all times are CEST, UTC+2

11 V 2023

Room 103

8.50-9.00 Conference opening

9.00-10.00 Plenary lecture I (online): John Wilkins, Food for Life: Galen’s On Health (De sanitate tuenda)

10.00-11.00 Plenary lecture II (online): John Haldon,The dynamics of transformation: why did Byzantium survive into the 8^th century?

11.00-11.15 Coffee break

 

11.15-13.15 Room 103

Online moderator: John Wilkins

Gerasimos Merianos     Humble but not insignificant: References to wine lees in Greek (al)chemical texts

Laurence Totelin (online participant)    Beyond amulets: healing stones in Graeco-Roman medicine

Barbara Zipser    Outliers in John the Physician's Therapeutics. Weird, wonderful and rare materia medica

11.15-13.15 Room 204

Moderator: Andrzej Kompa

Martina Čechová (online participant)   Crimean Cherson in the “times of turmoil”

Maciej Czyż    No need to go further. Byzantine Reconquista of 10^th-11^th centuries and attacks on Christians in the lands of Islam.

Elisabeta Negrău (online participant)    A 6th-Century Story in a 9^th-Century Tract? Torna, Torna, Frater Revisited

Marco Muresu    Sardinia and the Byzantine west. Paradigm shifts and changing perceptions

 

13.15-14.30 Lunch break

 

14.30-16.30 Room 103

Online moderator: Petros Bouras-Vallianatos

Sean Coughlin (online participant)    The meaning of ‘stypsis’ in the context of perfumery

Tomasz Tadajczyk, Krzysztof Jagusiak    Venenum malum or bonum? Mandrake in the light of  ancient Greek and Latin written sources

Isabel Grimm-Stadelmann (online participant)    The newly founded Commission for the Investigation of Byzantine Medical Studies (CIBMS): Concept and Activities

14.30-16.30 Room 204

Online moderator: Martina Čechová

Sławomir Skrzyniarz    Two Types of Images of Christ on the Coins of Justinian II

Christos Malatras(online participant)    Civil administration in the Byzantine provinces (7^th-9^th c.)

Luca Zavagno (online participant)    “The Navigators.” Mediterranean Cities and Urban Spaces in the passage from  Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages (ca. 600 - ca. 850 CE)

Andrzej Kompa    Implications of Justinian II's downfall and return

16.30-16.45  Coffee break

 

16.45-18.45 Room 103

Online moderator: Sean Coughlin

Veronika Kelbecheva, Gergana Petkova (online participants)    Medical Latin in practice. Methodology for self-preparation in   professional language of terminology

Maciej Kokoszko, Zofia Rzeźnicka    John Chrysostom’s physical frailty and how it was cured: the case of polyarchion

16.45-18.45 Room 204

Online moderator: Yanko Hristov

Francesco Dall’Aglio (online participant)    Byzantium in Times of Turmoil – Again (Late 12^th – Early 13^th C.). The Role of the Bulgarian Insurrection and Provincial Separatism

Ivelin Ivanov (online participant)    The Impact of the Fourth Crusade and the Latin Empire of Constantinople on the Second Bulgarian Tsardom

Paweł Lachowicz (online participant)    Cognatic primogeniture in practice. The recurring pattern of first born daughters and their husbands as claimants in the 12^th and 13^th century Byzantine Empire

Kirił Marinow    Tărnovgrad, the capital-city of Late Medieval Bulgaria, in the ‘Memoirs’ of Emperor John VI Kantakouzenos (i.e. Monk Joasaph Christodoulos)

 

19.00 Banquet

 

12 V 2023

Room 103

10.00-11.00Plenary lecture III: Ilias Anagnostakis,Lessons and insights from Chrysothemis: We are also what we don't eat or shouldn't or would like to eat (presented by Maria Leontsini)

11.00-11.15 Coffee break

 

11.15-13.15 Room 103

Online moderator: Isabel Grimm-Stadelmann

Irene Calà (online participant)    Reading medical manuscripts: new fragments of Philagrios

Elias Valiakos    The physician Theon and his unpublished work

Antoaneta Granberg    The interpolation on the human body and the four elements in the Slavonic Alexander romance

Maria Totomanova-Paneva, Lilly Stammler    Women and Their Afflictions According to Iatrosophion D Gr. 352

11.15-13.15 Room 204

Moderator: Jan Mikołaj Wolski

Yanko Hristov (online participant)    Ethnic, Religious and Social Diversity in the Early Medieval Bulgaria Seen by a 10^th–Century Hagiographer.

Piotr Czarnecki (online participant)    Authenticity of the Interrogatio Iohannis in the light of contemporary deconstructionist source criticism

Dick Van Niekerk (online participant)    Portrait of Sir Dimitri Obolensky Patron of the Study of the Bogomils

 

13.15-14.15   Lunch break

 

14.15-16.15 Room 103

Moderator: Gerasimos Merianos

Dimitra Makri (online participant)    Varieties of wine and wine-tasting in Graeco-Roman and Byzantine Egypt

Ksenija Borojevic, Krzysztof Jagusiak, Ksenija Gasic (online participants)    Peaches (Prunus persica [L.] Batsch) at the medieval site Ras, Serbia

Aleksander Chrószcz, Vedat Onar, Dominik Poradowski (online participant)    Animals from Theodosius Harbour

14.15-16.15 Room 204

Moderator: Antoaneta Granberg

Marina Čistiakova(online participant)    A Cycle of Memories and Verses of the Old Testament Righteous in the Prologues of Athos Hil. 424 and Hil. 427

Mariyana Tsibranska-Kostova (online participant)    Towards the History of the 15^th Сentury Repentance Prayers in the Slavonic South

Illia Rudyk (online participant)    The Itinerant Greek Orthodox Hierarchy in the 17^th Century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

 

16.30                    How did Ancient and Byzantine Food Taste Like?
Dégustationprepared by Maciej Helbig

 

13 V 2023

9.00-10.45 Room 103

Moderator: Maciej Helbig

Ayman Atat(online participant)    Paul of Aegina and his Food Therapy's Knowledge as quoted by Ibn Al- Bayṭār (13^th Century)

Maria Leontsini    Condiment or medicine? Capers from the Hippocratic Corpus to the Byzantine and Arab dietary treatises

Sally Grainger (online participant)    Garum, fish blood taboos in Christianity and the  evolving nature of ancient fish sauce

9.00-10.45 Room 204

Online moderator: Dmytro Dymydyuk

Magdalena Garnczarska    The light studies of the Byzantine Institute in the Holy Wisdom Church in Constantinople. Some remarks on troublesome gold tesserae

Zeynep Çakmakçı, Ceren Ünal (online participants)    Byzantine Reliquary Crosses from Haluk Perk Museum in Istanbul

Anastasios Kantaras(online participant) Il mondo dei simboli nel periodo bizantino: forme, interpretazione, evoluzione/The world of symbols during the Byzantine period: forms, interpretation and evolution.

10.45-11.00                      Coffee break

 

11.00-12.45 Room 103

Moderator: Maria Leontsini

Ferdinando Ferraioli(online participant)    Considerations on the role of fish and meat in the alimentation of Ancient Greece

Maciej Helbig    A roast lamb was set down in front of them. The mutton and the lamb in Ancient Roman and Byzantine culinary tradition.

11.00-12.45 Room 204

Moderator: Bogna Kosmulska

Dmytro Dymydyuk (online participant)    New interpretation and datation of the so-called “King Levon’s dagger” from the History Museum of Armenia

Marina Bastero Acha(online participant)    Flaminicae and priestesses as public benefactors in Hispania

Victor Humennyi (online participant)    Looking for identities through language? Analyzing the epigraphical habit of the Roman soldiers in the Late Antique Syria

12.45-13.00                      Coffee break

 

13.00-14.45 Room 103

Online moderator: Bojana Radovanović

Michail Theodosiadis  (online participant)    Early Byzantine political thought and the contemporary global political project

Dorothea Valentinova (online participant)    Law and Justice in Breviarium Alaricianum and Lex Visigothorum

BognaKosmulska    Constantinople III – A Lost Potential? A Philosopher’s Viewpoint

Grzegorz Rostkowski(online participant)    Once Again Concerning the Conversion of the Khazars to Judaism

 

CONFERENCE PUBLICATION:

Selected conference papers will be published in article format in “Studia Ceranea”, a yearly journal indexed in Scopus, the Web of Science Core Collection (Emerging Sources Citation Index), EBSCOhost, and a number of other databases.

 The deadline for submitting  papers to “Studia Ceranea” is May 31, 2023.

However, if you are not able to finish by that time, there will still be the possibility to deliver your text by December 31, 2023, so that it would be published in the volume covering 2024.

You will find all editorial instructions on the journal’s website:

Studia Ceranea. Editorial Instructions.

 

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CONFERENCE SECRETARIES

Dr. Krzysztof Jagusiak

Dr. Karolina Krzeszewska

Dr. Zofia Rzeźnicka

Dr. Jan Mikołaj Wolski

If you have any question, please contact us at colloquia.ceranea@uni.lodz.pl.

Fourth Colloquia Ceranea International Conference
12-14 May 2022, Łódź

Biedermann Palace, Franciszkańska 1/5 & online

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Programme (pdf, click to download)

Book of abstracts (pdf, click to download)

Thank you for your contribution! 

 

12 V 2022

8.50 – 9.00         Conference opening

9.00 – 10.00      Plenary lecture I (online): Alain Touwaide Lost in Scholarship. Byzantine Medicine

10.00 – 11.00   Plenary lecture II (online): Dirk Krasmüller Fasting on Wednesdays and Fridays in Byzantium

 

11.15 – 13.00 Room 202

Diana Míčková (online moderator)

Sean Coughlin (online participant)   Antyu and Stakte: Resins and Perfume Production in Ptolemaic Egypt

Manuela Marai (online participant)  Distillation in the Graeco-Roman World: Production and Fractionation of Resinous Substances for Pharmaceutical Use

Medhat Mohamed Ibrahim Abd El Rahman (online participant)    Application of Raman Spectroscopy to Suspected Residues of Ancient Perfumes

 

11.15 – 13.00 Room 203

Bojana Radovanović (online moderator)

Martina Biamino (online participant) Monasteries and Pilgrimage in Procopius of Caesarea’s De Aedificiis V

Andrew Wade (online participant) Multi-lingual, pluri-ethnic Orthodox monasticism in Palestine and on Sinai, with particular reference to the liturgical manuscript Sinai Arabic 232 (13th century)

Aneta   Dimitrova (online participant) Old Church Slavonic Translations and Revisions of Thalassius’ Centuriae iv de caritate et continentia (CPG 7848)

 

14.00 – 16.45 Room 202

Maciej Kokoszko (moderator)

Giulia   Freni (online participant) Herbs as pharmaka: between medicine, astrology and magic

Krzysztof Jagusiak, Tomasz Tadajczyk Aconite – a poison, or a medicine? Ancient and Byzantine testimonies

Barbara Zipser The lexicography of plant names

 

14.00 – 16.45 Room 203

 Andrew R. Roach (online moderator)

Maja Angelovska-Panova (online participant) Marxist and religious dichotomy in Kosta Racin’s publicism: The case of Bogomilism

Vladislav Atanassov (online participant) The Bogomils and the Cross

Boyana Radovanović (online participant) The Slavic population of Peloponnese in the Middle Ages and their implication for the study of Bogomilism         

Piotr Czarnecki (online participant) The doctrine of the ordo Sclavoniae in the light of the Western sources and the issue of the origins of the dualist heresy in Bosnia

 

17.00 – 18.45 Room 202

Barbara Zipser (moderator)

Sorin    Paliga Is Romanian mămăliga an enigmatic word? A brief enquiry into some old names of plants

Gergana Petkova, Vanya Ivanova (online participants) Cases of synonymy and antonymy in the Latin medical terminological system

Anne  Grons (online participant)    Coptic Medical Prescriptions. Status quo and Future Perspectives

 

17.00 – 18.45 Room 203

Mitko B. Panov (online moderator)

Tomasz Pełech “Sclavonia is a forsaken land” – the image of Slavic territories and their inhabitants in the “Liber” of Raymond of Aguilers

Dorothea Valentinova (online participant) Iustitia and Corruptio in Liber Constitutionum sive Lex Gundobada

Paola    Druille (online participant)     The violent collection of taxes in Philo of Alexandria’s De Specialibus Legibus II 92-95 and III 159-163

 

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13 V 2022

Gallery, part 3: Plenary lecture by Dr. Petros Bouras-Vaillanatos.

Room 202

9.00 – 10.00      Plenary lecture: Petros Bouras-Vallianatos Byzantine medicine matters: current trends and future avenues [click here to listen the lecture @soundcloud]

 

10.00 – 11.45 Room 202

 Petros Bouras-Vallianatos (moderator)

Sophia Xenophontos (online participant) Moral Medicine in Galen

Masayuki Fukushima The pseudo-Galenic treatise On Leeches and its reception by late antique authors

Isabel   Grimm-Stadelmann (online participant) »Blood is a very precious liquid« (Goethe, Faust I, v. 1740) – The value of blood as elixir of life, materia medica and energetic principle

 

10.00 – 11.45 Room 203

Marek Majer (moderator)

Thomas Daiber              Periphrastic (Future) Tense in Old Church Slavonic

Andriy Danylenko       How Many Futures Does Ukrainian Need?

Ivan P. Petrov             Future constructions in the Old Slavonic translations of Vita Antonii Magni

Björn   Wiemer           Diachronic layers in the interaction of the perfective present and the development of future grams in Slavic languages

 

12.00 – 13.45 Room 202

Maciej Helbig (online moderator)

Michiel Meeusen Saving Plato from the Doctors: Medical Zetema in Plutarch (Table Talk 7.1)

Giulia Gollo   (online participant) Food as Medicament in Byzantine Incubation Literature’s Healing Dreams. The Case of MS Lond. Add. 37534

Yanko Hristov (online participant)   Disease, Healing and Medical Knowledge in an Old-Bulgarian Collection of Miracle Stories

 

12.00 – 13.45 Room 203

Paweł Lachowicz (online moderator)

Ivelin Argirov Ivanov (online participant) Medieval Bulgaria in Polish Historiography After 1980

Francesco Dall’Aglio (online participant) Paristrion as centre and periphery: from Byzantine Border Province to Heartland of the ‘Second Bulgarian Kingdom’

Kirił Marinow  Τέρνοβος, ἐν ᾗ τὰ βασίλεια ἦν τῶν Βουλγάρων: the image of the Bulgarian capital city in Ῥωμαικὴ ἰστορία by Nikephoros Gregoras

Mitko B. Panov (online participant)  Reconstructing the image of Tsar Samuel from the perspective of the Ohrid Archbishopric (11th-17th Century)

 

15.00 – 16.45 Room 202

Ian Goh (moderator)

Erica Rowan                    Peasant chic: Elite food poverty in the Roman world

Andrew Jotischky         Grazers and foragers in medieval monastic discourse

Eike Faber (online participant) Poverty as an Ideal, or the Fundamentalism of the Wealthy

Judith Bronstein (online participant) Food, Identity and the military orders of the Templars and the Hospitallers, XIIth-XIIIth centuries

 

15.00 – 16.45 Room 203

Kirił Marinow (moderator)

Paweł Lachowicz (online participant) “The Foreign Element” as a Rhetorical Device of Criticizing Aristocratic Rebels in the Byzantine Narrative Sources of the 12th Century

Michał Stachura The distant beginnings of “fat shaming”, or why people of Antiquity did not ridicule fat women

Marina Bastero Acha (online participant) Epulum dedit: women and public banquets in the Hispano-Roman epigraphic landscape

Anastasios Kantaras    (online participant) Alcune osservazioni sulla posizione delle donne a Bisanzio attraverso gli epigrammi per la croce di Nicholas Kallikles (Some observations on woman’s position in Byzantium through the epigrams for the cross of Nicholas Kallikles)

 

 17.00 – 18.45 Room 202

Isabel Grimm-Stadelmann (online moderator)

Viktor Humennyi (online participant) Between the perception of “other” and culinary: the “Parthian tastes” of Roman cuisine

Maciej Helbig (online participant) L’Aile ou la Cuisse? The Hen and the chicken in De observatione ciborum by Anthimus

Zofia Rzeźnicka, Maciej Kokoszko Beef in the Byzantine period: dietetic advice and dietary reality

Lilia Isabel Lopez (online participant) Milk in medicine. The case of Spain (18th century)

 

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14 V 2022

 

9.00 – 10.45

Andrzej Kompa (moderator)

Chiara Di Serio (online participant)  The Indian River Which Flows from Paradise

Magdalena Garnczarska (online participant) Revival and Change: the Backgrounds of the Miniatures of the Paris Psalter

Stela Tasheva, Sasha Lozanova (online participants) Furniture and spatial environment of Eastern Christian miniatures and icons: scenes of evangelists

Dominika Grabiec (online participant) Musical Instruments of King David in the Byzantine scenes of the death of poor Lazarus

 

11.00 – 12.45

Magdalena Garnczarska (online moderator)

Aleksander Mikołajczak, Rafał Dymczyk (online participants) Phonation of apocalyptic Athos frescoes from the monastery of Dionisiou versus Apokalipsis cum figuris by Albrecht Dürer

Kalina Mincheva (online participant) A note on the ktetor’s image in the church of St Archangel Michael Monastery of Bilintsi located in the vicinity of town of Breznik

Andrzej Kompa Martyrium of Sts. Karpos and Papylos, its frescoes and their identification

 

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CONFERENCE SECRETARIES

Dr. Krzysztof Jagusiak

Dr. Karolina Krzeszewska

Dr. Zofia Rzeźnicka

Dr. Jan Mikołaj Wolski

If you have any question, please contact us at colloquia.ceranea@uni.lodz.pl.

 

To access the recording of the paper click on its title or the name of the speaker. If you are interested in the discussion, scroll through the recording to the end of the panel.

 

Book of Abstracts [PDF]

 

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PROGRAMME

(ALL TIMES ARE CEST, UTC+2)

15 APRIL

PLENARY ROOM:

11.50 Conference opening

12.00 Mariyana Tsibranska–Kostova

The Slavic South and Byzantium: Prochiron and its Slavic Translation in the 13^th Century – Traditions, Functions, Statehood

 

13.00

PLENARY ROOM:

Panel: Bogomil religious culture; written, oral and landscape
organizer: Andrew P. Roach
moderator: David Zbíral

Maja Angelovska-Panova The Phenomena of Bogomilism in  Context of Hagiographic Literary Works
Bojana Radovanović Spreading the word: the role of the oral transmission and Biblical exegesis among the Bogomils
Andrew P. Roach Bogomils in context: Religious Culture in the tenth century Bulgarian empire
Jan Mikołaj Wolski Letter of Patriarch Teophilact Lekapenos and heresies in Bulgaria

 

PORPHYRY CHAMBER:

Panel: Diaetetics as medicine for body and soul: dietary qualities in byzantine medicine
organizer: Isabel Grimm-Stadelmann
moderator: Günter Prinzing

Isabel Grimm-Stadelmann A Byzantine Burnout-Therapy
Danilo Valentino Cooking Plants for Healing Diseases. Vegetable Decoctions from the Anthologium Iatrosophicum in MS. Panorm. XIII C 3
Elias Valiakos Dosage of drugs and diet for treatments in Nikolaos Myrepsos’ Dynameron
Frederick Lauritzen Kekaumenos and Absinthe

 

15.00   Lunch break

 

16.00

PLENARY ROOM:

Panel: Infidels, heresies and heresiology in the Byzantine World
moderator: Maja Angelovska-Panova

Dženan Dautović The krstjani from Bosnia in antiheretical treatises from Western Europe: knowledge based on experience or from projection? (the paper was not presented)
David Zbíral From History to Identity Narrative and Back: Discussing the Beginnings of the Cathars (12^th-13^th Century)
Piotr Czarnecki If not Bogomilism than what? The origins of Catharism in the light of the sources
Vladislav Atanassov Тhe Eucharistic Controversy between the Official Church and the Early Representatives of Bogomilism and Catharism

 

PORPHYRY CHAMBER:

Panel: Food and medicine in Byzantium
moderator: Maciej Kokoszko

Laurence Totelin Intimate cosmetic care in Byzantine medical treatises
Sean Coughlin Recreating Democritus’ Party Tricks
Chiara Thumiger Πόθεν φρενῖτις? The popular reception of the disease phrenitis in Christian sources

 

18.00

PLENARY ROOM:

Panel: Infidels, heresies and heresiology in the Byzantine World
moderator: Piotr Czarnecki

Chiara Di Serio Customs of the Brahmans and Other Barbarian Peoples in the Byzantine Chronicles
Martina Čechová Crimean Cherson and the “heretics”: what was the relationship between the locals and the exiles?
Yuri Stoyanov Christian Heretical Participation in the Rebellion of Börklüce Mustafa & Sheikh Bedreddin – Reappraising the Evidence (presented by Jan Mikołaj Wolski)
Julian Wood To Fight a Schism with a Sura: The Islamic Lexis of Christian Image-Debates in 9^th-Century Syria

 

PORPHYRY CHAMBER:

Panel: Food and medicine in Byzantium
moderator: Laurence Totelin

Giuseppe Squillace  Preliminary notes on the physician Krateuas (II-I Century BC). A New Collection of his Testimonies and Fragments
Maciej Kokoszko Anthimus on trutledoves, starlings and bustards
Zofia   Rzeźnicka „Lepores vero si novelli…”, i.e. about connections between medicine and culinary art in Anthimus’ De observatione ciborum
Nikos Tsivikis, Thanasis Sotiriou, Olga Karagiorgou, Ilias Anagnostakis On the vine road between Bithynia and the East: Production and Consumption of the Amorian wine in the Middle Byzantine period

 

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16 April 

 

13.00

PLENARY ROOM:

Panel: Infidels, heresies and heresiology in the Byzantine World
moderator: Andrew P. Roach

Petra Melichar Maria the nun Makaria and the last entry of the Synodikon of Orthodoxy
Paolo Angelini Περὶ αἱρετικῶν: heresies in the Syntagma of Blastares
Pavla Gkantzios Drápelová Prokopios on the Religion of the Slavs: A statistical approach
Johann Anton Zieme The De haeresibus et synodis of Germanos I of Constantinople as a source on early Byzantine heresies? Prospects of a critical edition and commentary

 

PORPHYRY CHAMBER:

Panel: Food and medicine in Byzantium
moderator: Zofia Rzeźnicka

Veronika Kelbecheva The Language of Medicine used in Medicinae ex Holeribus et Pomis by Gargilius Martialis
Petkova Gergana, Ivanova Vanya Eponyms in Latin Medical Terminology Derived from a Toponym (Compared with their Bulgarian and English Equivalents)
Tatiana Popova Naming of Food and Drinks in the “Ladder” of John Climacus
Daniel Asade, Paola Druille The Syriac christianization of a medical Greek recipe: From Bárbaros Héra to the ‘Apostles´ Ointment’

 

15.00 Lunch break

 

16.00

PLENARY ROOM:

Panel: Infidels, heresies and heresiology in the Byzantine World
moderator: Petra Melichar

Boris Stojkovski Saint Sava and Konstantin Mihailović: two Serbian medieval views on Islam
Ivelin Ivanov Crusading in Livonia and Romania (end of the 12^th – beginning of the 13^th century). An attempt at a comparative approach
Silvia Notarfonso Giulio Mancinelli, a Jesuit missionary between Dalmatia and Constantinople (1575-1586)

 

PORPHYRY CHAMBER:

Panel: Food and medicine in Byzantium
moderator: Frederick Lauritzen

Maciej Gdaniec Coaches, athletes – relationships and selection for training according to Flavius Philostratos
Maciej Helbig The Byzantine garden – what to plant in the garden according to 12^th book Geoponica by Cassianus Bassus
Lilia Isabel López Ferman  Galactology in Spanish medicine, 16^th and 17^th centuries
Ekaterina Dikova The Saint as Food, the Torture as Medicine: Some Aspects of Christopher of Mytilene’s Imagery in His Dodecasyllabic Calendar and Its Translations in South Slavonic

 

18.00

PORPHYRY CHAMBER:

Panel: Food and medicine in Byzantium
moderator: Isabel Grimm-Stadelmann

Thomas Daiber Mens sana in corpore – Body and Soul in Vita Cyrilli
Adelina Angusheva-Tihanov, Margaret Dimitrova To Nourish and to Heal in Equal Measures: Food and Cooking Methods in the Healing Practices of Byzantine and Medieval Slavonic Cultures
John Wilkins ‘Whole Substance’ in Galen’s Simple Medicines
Ekaterina Todorova Mental Illnesses in the Middle Ages and their Reflection in the South Slavonic Hagiographic Literature
Irina Kuzidova-Karadzhinova Distribution of the Dietary Calendars among the Slavs in the Middle Ages

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17 April 

 

PLENARY ROOM:

9.00 Stephanie Roussou

Why textual criticism of obscure grammatical texts matters
(the beginning of the lecture was not recorded)

PLENARY ROOM:

10.00

moderator: Ekaterina Dikova

Anissava Miltenova Once Again about the Multifold Slavonic Translations and Their Context: „On Prayer” by Evagrius of Pontus
Vladislav Knoll Written languages in Wallachia during the reign of Neagoe Basarab (1512-1521)
George Michailidis  Prostitution in the early and middle Byzantine period. Saints former prostitutes, holy fools and merciful monks
Margarita Papageorgiou An approach of the language of George of Nikomedia

 

PLENARY ROOM:

12.00

moderator: Mitko Panov

Marcin Böhm Constantine X Doukas (1059-1067) versus Uzes – about the Nomads on boats on the Danube in 1065
Arkadiusz Filip Siwko A commonwealth of interest in the Rus’ian-Byzantine treaty (944/5)
Francesco Dall’Aglio Between Rebellion and Statesmanship: Attempting a Biography of Ivanko, 1196/1200 (?)
Kirił Marinow Tărnovgrad viewed by the Others: Bulgarian capital city in the light of Byzantine sources

 

14.00 Lunch break

 

PLENARY ROOM:

15.00

moderator: Francesco Dall’Aglio

Andrzej Kompa Was John Malalas the author of the 18^th book of Chronography? – a few additional points
Nikolaos Kostourakis Literary Representations of Descent and Social Mobility: the Case of the Lakapenoi
Paweł Lachowicz The Title Hierarchy of the Last Komnenoi and the Angelos Dynasty – From Sebastohypertatos to Sebastokrator

 

PLENARY ROOM:

16.30

moderator: Kirił Marinow

Grigorios Papagiannis, Maria Tziatzi-Papagianni, Vasileios-Alexandros Kollias, Anastasia Nikolaou The portrayal of the Empire’s ruler in the novels of Leo VI the Wise
Mitko B. Panov Ideology behind the Naming: On the origin of Basil II’s appellation ‘Scythicus’ (the end of the presentation was not recorded)
Teresa Wolińska The Use of the Title of Basileus in Procopius’ Writings and Basileia of Arethas (the beginning of the presentation was not recorded)
Yanko Hristov, Dafina Kostadinova “Because to this day … the plain near the city called Anchialos housed the bones of the massacred…”: Chr. 72 of Patriarch Nikephoros’ Antirrheticus III as a historical source.

 

PLENARY ROOM:

18.30

moderator: Teresa Wolińska

Raffaele D’Amato, Dmytro Dymydyuk The sword with the sleeve cross-guard in the fresco from the Cathedral of the Holy Cross on Aghtamar Island
Michael Selzer Byzantine Aesthetics and the Concept of Symmetry
Magdalena Garnczarska On the meaning of gold backgrounds in the mosaic panels of the Deesis in the Hagia Sophia and the donor portrait of Theodore Metochites in the church of the Chora monastery

 

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Programme [PDF]

Book of Abstracts [PDF]

 

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CONFERENCE SECRETARIES

Dr. Krzysztof Jagusiak

Dr. Karolina Krzeszewska

Dr. Zofia Rzeźnicka

Dr. Jan Mikołaj Wolski

If you have any question, please contact us at colloquia.ceranea@uni.lodz.pl.

Second Colloquia Ceranea International Conference
24-26 April 2020, Łódź

 

 

Programme [pdf]

Book of abstracts [pdf]

 

SCOPE

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The conference is targeted at scholars who study the history and culture of the Mediterranean (the Greco-Roman world, the Byzantine Empire, the Slavic world, the Balkans), the Middle East, and the Caucasus over the period from Antiquity to the Early Modern Times.

 

SPECIAL GUESTS

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Four plenary lectures will be delivered. Our keynote speakers are:

Prof. Albrecht Berger (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

Prof. Ivan Biliarsky (Българска Академия на Науките)

Prof. Philip van der Eijk (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Prof. Marcello Garzaniti (Università degli Studi di Firenze)

 

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Papers should be presented in English. Other languages are acceptable too, provided that the speaker prepares an English handout (or multimedia presentation) outlining the main points of the talk.

Provided they meet the applicable requirements, the papers from the conference will be published in article format in the yearly Studia Ceranea, a journal indexed in Web of Science Core Collection (Emerging Sources Citation Index), EBSCOhost, and a number of other databases.

 

VENUE

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Due to the spread of SARS-COV-2 the conference is organised on the web.

First Colloquia Ceranea International Conference
11-13 April 2019, Łódź

FULL PROGRAMME AND ABSTRACTS

[download]

 

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11 April

Plenary lectures:

Prof. Béatrice Caseau, Sorbonne University (Paris IV)

Food and monasticism in Byzantium

 

Prof. Anna-Maria Totomanova, University of Sofia “St. Kliment Ohridski”

The Glagolitic Script and the So Called Trilinguist Heresy

 

12 April

Plenary lecture:

Prof. Anna Kotłowska, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań

Jan Sajdak’s Byzantine Studies

 

13 April

Guided tour around Łódź

 

 

VENUE

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Biedermann Palace:

ul. Franciszkańska 1/5, Łódź

2022

 

Prof. Iwelin Iwanow, The Nomads against the Knights. Military Campaigns of the Cumans and the Latins in the Balkans (1205–1225), 25.10.2022, g. 10.15, Instytut Historii, s. 13.

Mgr Aneta Bąk, Obraz kobiety w wybranych zachodnich epistolografiach późnoantycznych, 18.10.2022, g. 17.15, Pałac Biedermanna, s. 215.

Dr Grzegorz Rostkowski, Zagadnienie konwersji Chazarii na judaizm w nowszej literaturze przedmiotu, 28.09.2022, g. 16.00, Pałac Biedermanna, s. 215.

Dr Tristan Schmidt (Uniwersytet Śląski), The megaloi domestikoi of the Komnenoi and Angeloi – a position in between institutional consolidation and containment, 28.09.2022, g. 17.00, Pałac Biedermanna, s. 215.

Dr Tomasz Pełech (Uniwersytet Warszawski), Bizantynki w Outremer i Łacinniczki nad Bosforem – związki dynastyczne pomiędzy państwami krzyżowców a Konstantynopolem w XII w., 10.03.2022, g. 17.00, Pałac Biedermanna, sala 215.

2021

Dr Aneta Dimitrova (Uniwersytet Sofijski), The Greek Versions of the Homily De salute animae (CPG 4031 / 4622) and Their Old Church Slavonic Translations, 9.12.2021, s. 215, Pałac Biedermanna

Dr Yanko Hristov (Katedra Historii Południowo-Zachodniego Uniwersytetu „Neofita Rylskiego” w Błagojewgradzie), Written not with ink but with tears: Byzantine civilians in the enemy hands, according to the early 10th century accounts, 27.10.2021, sala rady wydziału, Instyt Historii UŁ

Prof. dr hab. Ivelin Ivanov (Katedra Historii Starożytnej i Średniowiecznej Uniwersytetu „św. św. Cyryla i Metodego” w Wielkim Tyrnowie), Late Medieval Nomads in the Bulgarian Historical-Apocalyptic Literature, 23.09.2021, czytelnia Centrum Ceraneum (Biblioteka Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego)

Dr Adrian Szopa (Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny w Krakowie), Wizerunek barbarzyńców w późnoantycznych panegirykach łacińskich, 18.06.2021, wykład online

Dr. hab. Andrzej Gillmeister (Uniwersytet Zielonogórski), Rerum sacrarum et epularum. O ofierze w religii rzymskiej, 28.05.2021, wykład online

Dr hab. Łukasz Różycki (Pracownia Historii Bizancjum Wydziału Historii Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu), Wojna przychodzi po zmierzchu – teoria i praktyka nocnych walk w VI wieku, 26.02.2021, wykład online

2020

Dr hab. Jan Stradomski, prof. UJ ( Instytut Filologii Słowiańskiej Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego)​, Idea unii kościelnej i/czy jedności Kościoła? O polisemantyczności dyskursu w polsko-ruskiej polemice religijnej w dawnej Rzeczypospolitej (2 poł. XVI–pocz. XVIII w.), 4.12.2020, wykład online

2019

 

Dr Zofia Brzozowska (Katedra Filologii Słowiańskiej UŁ), Koran na obszarze Slavia Orthodoxa? Fragmenty tłumaczeń i ślady recepcji w piśmiennictwie Słowian prawosławnych w średniowieczu, 1.06.2019, Sala Dziekańska gmachu Instytutu Historii Uniwersytetu Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu (Collegium Historicum)

Prof. dr hab. Ivelin Ivanov (Katedra Historii Starożytnej i Średniowiecznej Uniwersytetu „św. św. Cyryla i Metodego” w Wielkim Tyrnowie), Weapons, Armor and Armed Men in the Gospels of Tsar Ivan Alexander, 14.10.2019, sala seminaryjna Centrum Ceraneum (Pałac Biedermanna)

Doc. Dr Valentin Kitanov (Katedra Historii na Wydziale Prawno-Historycznym Uniwersytetu Południowo-Zachodniego im. Neofita Rylskiego w Błagoewgradzie), Tabaco in the historical development of Bulgaria, 9.10.2019, Instytut Historii UŁ

Dr. Yanko M. Hristov (Katedra Historii na Wydziale Prawno-Historycznym Uniwersytetu Południowo-Zachodniego im. Neofita Rylskiego w Błagoewgradzie), Byzantine prisoners of war in Bulgaria during the period 976 to 1018, 9.10.2019, Instytut Historii UŁ

Prof. dr hab. Ivelin Ivanov (Katedra Historii Starożytnej i Średniowiecznej Uniwersytetu „św. św. Cyryla i Metodego” w Wielkim Tyrnowie), Medieval Bulgaria and Constantinople. The Bulgarian actions in support of and against the Byzantine capital in the period from the 8th to the14th century, 14.05.2019, sala seminaryjna Centrum Ceraneum (Pałac Biedermanna)

Ks. dr hab. Janusz Lewandowicz (Wyższe Seminarium Duchowne w Łodzi), Życie monastyczne na Zachodzie w czasach Grzegorza Wielkiego, 16.01.2019, sala seminaryjna Centrum Ceraneum (Pałac Biedermanna)

2018

Prof. Ivelin Ivanov (St. St. Cyril and Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo), Teutons, Cumans and Bulgarians in the Second Decade of the Thirteenth Century (1211–1225), 11.10.2018, sala seminaryjna Centrum Ceraneum (Pałac Biedermanna)

Dr hab. Jacek Bonarek (Uniwersytet Jana Kochanowskiego, Filia w Piotrkowie Trybunalskim), Echa śmierci Nikefora Fokasa w historiografii Wschodu i Zachodu, 30.05.2018, sala seminaryjna Centrum Ceraneum (Pałac Biedermanna)

Dr Szymon Wierzbiński (Instytut Nauk Społecznych i Zarządzania Technologiami Politechniki Łódzkiej), Suum cuique? Kilka uwag o żołdzie i warunkach służby w armii bizantyńskiej w X w., 16.05.2018, sala seminaryjna Centrum Ceraneum (Pałac Biedermanna)

Доц. д-р Ценка Досева (Софийски Университет „Св. Климент Охридски”, Факултет по славянски филологии), Гимнографический материал, посвященный св. пророку Илии, в славянской книжности, 09.05.2018, sala seminaryjna Centrum Ceraneum (Pałac Biedermanna)

Dr Andrzej Hołasek, Moralność chrześcijan w świetle kanonów Bazylego Wielkiego, 18.04.2018, sala seminaryjna Centrum Ceraneum (Pałac Biedermanna)

Dr hab. Anna Kotłowska, prof. Uniwersytetu Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, Alegoria miłości: odrodzenie powieści w czasach Komnenów, 1.03.2018,  sala seminaryjna Centrum Ceraneum (Pałac Biedermanna)

2017

Prof. dr hab. Dariusz Dąbrowski (Uniwersytet Kazimierza Wielkiego, Bydgoszcz), dr Adrian Jusupović (Instytut Historii Polskiej Akademii Nauk), O potrzebie wydawania w Polsce pomników średniowiecznego piśmiennictwa ruskiego. Rozważania na podstawie Kroniki halicko-wołyńskiej, 27.11.2017, sala seminaryjna Centrum Ceraneum (Pałac Biedermanna)

Prof. Mirosław Jerzy Leszka (Katedra Historii Bizancjum UŁ), Car Piotr (927–969) w pamięci Bizantyńczyków i średniowiecznych Bułgarów, 08.11.2017, sala seminaryjna Centrum Ceraneum (Pałac Biedermanna)

Prof. Anna-Maria Totomanova (Uniwersytetu im. św. Klemensa Ochrydzkiego w Sofii), The Synodikon of Orthodoxy in Medieval Bulgaria, 10.05.2017, sala seminaryjna Centrum Ceraneum (Pałac Biedermanna)

Prof. Zdzisław Pentek (Instytut Historii UAM), Dziwy Królowej Miast, czyli śladami Roberta z Clari w Konstantynopolu 1204 roku, 29.03.2017, sala seminaryjna Centrum Ceraneum (Pałac Biedermanna)

Dr Marcin Cyrulski, Mała wielka kronika. „Kronika trapezuncka” Michała Panaretosa, 01.03.2017, sala seminaryjna Centrum Ceraneum (Pałac Biedermanna)

2016

Dr Magdalena Łaptaś (Instytut Historii Sztuki Uniwersytetu Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie), Wizerunek i funkcja władców nubijskich w malarstwie średniowiecznego Sudanu, 15.12.2016, sala seminaryjna Centrum Ceraneum (Pałac Biedermanna)

Doc. dr Stefan Jordanow (Uniwersytet im. Św. Św. Cyryla i Metodego w Wielkim Tyrnowie), Władza i organizacja pierwszego państwa bułgarskiego w okresie przedchrześcijańskim, 26.09.2016, sala seminaryjna Centrum Ceraneum (Pałac Biedermanna)

Doc. dr Angeł Nikołow (Katedra Historii Bułgarii Uniwersytetu Sofijskiego im. Klemensa Ochrydzkiego), Политическая идеология и публичная пропаганда болгарских правителей в первое столетие после принятия христианства в Болгарии (864–971 гг.), 08.06.2016, sala seminaryjna Centrum Ceraneum (Pałac Biedermanna)

Dr Martina Čechová  (Wydział Słowiański Czeskiej Akademii Nauk), Byzantine Cherson: the place of refuge and banishment, 07.06.2016, Instytut Historii UŁ

Dr hab. Ireneusz Milewski (Instytut Historii Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego), Flavia Iulia Helena. Kilka uwag na temat ideologicznych aspektów mennictwa epoki konstantyńskiej, 01.06.2016, sala seminaryjna Centrum Ceraneum (Pałac Biedermanna)

Prof. Marek Wilczyński (Instytut Historii i Archiwistyki Uniwersytetu Pedagogicznego im. Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie), Gejzeryk i „czwarta wojna punicka”, 05.05.2016, sala seminaryjna Centrum Ceraneum (Pałac Biedermanna)

Dr Ireneusz Jakubowski (Katedra Prawa Rzymskiego UŁ), Cesarz Justynian – człowiek i prawodawca w opinii Tadeusza Czackiego, 27.04.2016, sala seminaryjna Centrum Ceraneum (Pałac Biedermanna)

Prof. Jarosław Dudek (Uniwersytet Zielonogórski), Rola Bizancjum w chrystianizacji ludów stepowych Europy Wschodniej, 16.03.2016, sala seminaryjna Centrum Ceraneum (Pałac Biedermanna)

Prof. Georgi Minczew (Katedra Filologii Słowiańskiej UŁ), Czy istniała teologia bogomilska? Idee dualistyczne w ekumenie bizantyńsko-słowiańskiej, 09.03.2016, sala seminaryjna Centrum Ceraneum (Pałac Biedermanna)

Prof. Teresa Wolińska (Katedra Historii Bizancjum UŁ), Sojusznik cesarza Justyniana. Kariera Al-Haritha z plemienia Ghassanidów, 24.02.1016, sala seminaryjna Centrum Ceraneum (Pałac Biedermanna)

Prof. Maciej Kokoszko (Katedra Historii Bizancjum UŁ), Malábathron (μαλάβαθρον). Kilka uwag o roli Cinnamomum tamala w kuchni i medycynie antyku i Bizancjum w okresie pomiędzy I a VII w., 13.01.2016, sala seminaryjna Centrum Ceraneum (Pałac Biedermanna)

2015

Prof. Michael Vickers (Uniwersytet Oksfordzki), Euesperides, Berenice, Benghazi: 2500 years of a Cyrenaican city, 01.12.2015, sala seminaryjna Centrum Ceraneum (Pałac Biedermanna)

Doc. dr Nikołaj Kynew (Uniwersytet im. Św. Św. Cyryla i Metodego w Wielkim Tyrnowie), Bizantyńska hierarchia godności w IX–XI w., 10.11.2015, Instytut Historii UŁ

Doc. dr Oleg Aleksandrow (Uniwersytet im. Św. Św. Cyryla i Metodego w Wielkim Tyrnowie), Kulty prywatne armii rzymskiej na terenie prowincji Mezji Dolnej, 07.05.2015, sala seminaryjna Centrum Ceraneum (Pałac Biedermanna)

Doc. dr Oleg Aleksandrow (Uniwersytet im. Św. Św. Cyryla i Metodego w Wielkim Tyrnowie), Religia oficjalna armii rzymskiej w prowincji Mezji Dolnej, 05.05.2015, Instytut Historii UŁ

Dr hab. Tomasz Waliszewski (Centrum Archeologii Śródziemnomorskiej Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego), Produkcja oliwy w rzymskiej i bizantyńskiej Syro-Palestynie. 1000 lat tradycji, 03.03.2015, sala seminaryjna Centrum Ceraneum (Pałac Biedermanna)

Referaty wygłoszone przez studentów podczas zebrań SNS Ceraneum

Marcin Antczak, Polityka cara Kałojana wobec Konstantynopola, 20.04.2015, sala 13 Centrum Ceraneum (Pałac Biedermanna)

Michał Frąckiewicz, Czy Galowie mieli szansę obronić się przed Cezarem?, 16.03.2015, sala 13 Centrum Ceraneum (Pałac Biedermanna)

2014

Assoc. Prof. Nadezhda Hristova, PhD. (Uniwersytet im. Św. Św. Cyryla i Metodego w Wielkim Tyrnowie), Women’s Legal Status in the Kingdoms of Franks and Anglo-Saxons (5th–9th cc.), 25.09.2014, sala seminaryjna Centrum Ceraneum (WPiA UŁ)

Prof. dr Vladimír Vavřínek (Czeska Akademia Nauk, Praga), Cyril and Methodius: The Story of a Lost Mission, 07.06.2014, Instytut Historii UŁ

Prof. Ivan Biliarsky (Instytut Historii, Bułgarska Akademia Nauk), Małżeństwo i władza. Kobieta jako osoba legitymizująca władzę w kulturze bizantyńskiej, 29.05.2014, sala seminaryjna Centrum Ceraneum (WPiA UŁ)

Prof. Hassan Badawy (Uniwersytet Arystotelesa w Tesalonice), Egypt between Byzantines and Arabs. Consequences and Dimensions in the Eastern Mediterranean Area, 22.05.2014, sala seminaryjna Centrum Ceraneum (WPiA UŁ)

Doc. Dr. Ivelin Ivanov (Uniwersytet im. Św. Św. Cyryla i Metodego w Wielkim Tyrnowie), The Bulgarian Campaigns of Kniaz Sviatoslav from 968–971 and Viking Invasion of Europe, 7.05.2014; The Bulgarian-Latin War of 1205–1207: Strategy and Tactics of The Two Sides, 8.05.2014, Instytut Historii UŁ.

Referaty wygłoszone przez studentów podczas zebrań SNS Ceraneum

Zofia Rzeźnicka, Gęś w gastronomii, dietetyce i medycynie antycznej i bizantyńskiej, 14.12.2014, sala 13 Centrum Ceraneum (Pałac Biedermanna)

Aleksandra Radzyńska, Więzi rodzinne a ambicje polityczne, czyli relacje między synami Manuela II do 1448 r., 19.05.2014, sala seminaryjna Centrum Ceraneum (WPiA UŁ)

Andrzej Lubikowski, Wzór filozofa neopitagorejskiego na przykładzie Apolloniosa z Tyany. Na temat wyglądu i sprawowania ofiar słów kilka, 17.03.2014, sala seminaryjna Centrum Ceraneum (WPiA UŁ)

2013

Referaty wygłoszone przez studentów podczas zebrań SNS Ceraneum

Katarzyna Muszyńska (slawistyka UŁ), Bułgaria w rękach Boga i Szatana – wieloraka natura świata wedle bułgarskich wierzeń ludowych, 18.11.2013, sala seminaryjna Centrum Ceraneum (WPiA UŁ)

Anna Łazuchiewicz (historia UŁ), Starożytna medycyna oczami Jana Chryzostoma, 21.10.2013, sala seminaryjna Centrum Ceraneum (WPiA UŁ)

Radosław Siarkowski (historia UŁ), Jedwab w Bizancjum, 06.05.2013, sala seminaryjna Centrum Ceraneum (WPiA UŁ)

To see the schedule and abstracts of the lectures click HERE.

Alain Touwaide (Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions)

June 6: Being Sick, Being Treated in Byzantium. Byzantine Remedial Therapy

June 7: Medicine at the Border. Cross-cultural Exchanges in Medicine in Sicily and Southern Italy

Gerasimos Merianos (National Hellenic Research Foundation)

May 11:  Humble but not insignificant: References to wine lees in Greek (al)chemical texts

Maria Leontsini (National Hellenic Research Foundation)

May 13: Condiment or medicine? Capers from the Hippocratic Corpus to the Byzantine and Arab dietary treatises (youtube)

The talks by Gerasimos Merianos and Maria Leontsini were delivered within the fifth edition of the international, interdisciplinary scholarly conference Colloquia Ceranea.

Ivan Biliarsky (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)

October 3: Sources of the Medieval Bulgarian Law

Rudolf Dekker (Centre for the Study of Egodocuments and History / Erasmus University Rotterdam)

October 19: The Privacy of the Prison. Writing about Yourself in Jail, 1500–2000 (recording in preparation)

Ineke Huysman (Huygens Institute, Amsterdam)

October 20: The Person behind Johan de Witt: The Daily Life of the Grand Pensionary and His Circles (recording in preparation)

François-Joseph Ruggiu (Sorbonne Université / Oxford University)

October 20: What Was Private in Early Modern Privacy? What Was Intimate in Early Modern Intimacy? An Exploration Through the French Personal Writings (recording in preparation)

The talks by Rudolf Dekker, Ineke Huysman and François-Joseph Ruggiu were delivered within the international scholarly conference Egodocuments and Privacy in the Early Modern Era.

Mohammed Ismail Al-Nasarat (Al-Hussein Bin Talal University)

October 24: Petra and the Nabataeans in the Classical Writings (photo report from the event)

Barbara Zipser (University of London)

October 30

First lecture: Vision and Blindness in Ancient and Medieval Medicine  (soundcloud) (photo report from the event)

Second lecture: Treatment in Ioannes Archiatrus (soundcloud)

Isabel Grimm-Stadelmann (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich / Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities)

November 7: The Aktouarios John Zacharias (c. 1275–1330) and his Treatise on the “Psychic Pneuma”: a Byzantine “Burnout Therapy”? (soundcloud)

November 8: Byzantine Medicine: Professional Interaction between Tradition and Innovation (soundcloud) (photo report from the event)

 

Dr Laurence Totelin, Perfumers and their perfumes in the ancient drug trade, 10.11.2022, g. 17.00, Instytut Historii, sala 202.

Dr Laurence Totelin, A remedy fit for a king: rulers as consumers and creators of drugs in the Greek and Roman world, 08.11.2022, g. 12.00, Instytut Historii, Sala Rady Wydziału Filozoficzno-Historycznego.

Dr Irene Calà, Medical theory and practice in the Eastern Roman Empire: medical treatises, physicians and hospitals, 25.10.2022, g. 12.00, Instytut Historii, Sala Rady Wydziału Filozoficzno-Historycznego.

Dr Irene Calà, The physician’s instruments in medieval Constantinople: hands, tools and machines, 24.10.2022, g. 17.00, Instytut Historii, s. 202.

Bojana Radovanović, Profiling the Bogomils in the later Byzantine period: some notes on the Koudougheroi, 14.10.2022, Biblioteka UŁ, s. 302.

Alessandra Bucossi, Repertorium auctorum polemicorum de pace et discordia inter Ecclesiam Graecam et Latinam: an introduction, 14.10.2022, Biblioteka UŁ, s. 302.

Marie-Hélène Blanchet, Analysing the corpus of East-West christian polemics with the help of a database, 14.10.2022, Biblioteka UŁ, s. 302.

Petros Bouras-Vallianatos, Byzantine medicine matters: current trends and future avenues, 13.05.2022, g. 9.00, Pałac Biedermanna, s. 201.

THE BOGOMIL SEMINAR: Bogomil Heresiology, its Aspects, Concepts, Reflections, Implications and Heritage

Is our knowledge of medieval heresies sustainable? Any short answer to this question would be a rash one. Join us for a series of sessions on key issues pertaining to the history of Bogomilism and related dualist heresies from a comparative perspective. The relationship between the Bogomils, the Paulicians and Cathars, role of the Balkan corridor, the nature of the Bosnian church, the significance of apocrypha and credibility of heresiologies and heresiologists’ methodological approaches – are among the pivotal issues of controversy. Establishing positions on these crucial points will determine or alter our picture of the past, elaborating the delineation of the most important traits which marked the religious history of the heterodox medieval landscape and heretical movements.
Organizers: Bojana Radovanović and Jan Mikołaj Wolski

 

6. Session, March 17th 2023, Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences

Medieval Heresies: Along The Roads Less Travelled (Programme)

 

5. Session, October 14th 2022, 9.00 AM. Venue: Biblioteka UŁ, sala 302 & online.

Polemical Literature in Byzantium and the Slavic World (click to watch the recording on YT)

9.00

Alessandra Bucossi (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice), Repertorium auctorum polemicorum de pace et discordia inter Ecclesiam Graecam et Latinam: an introduction

Marie-Hélène Blanchet (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Analysing the corpus of East-West christian polemics with the help of a database

11.00

Octavian-Adrian Negoiță (University of Copenhagen), “But No Prophet Was Sent to the Arabs”: Some Considerations on the Byzantine Anti-Islamic Polemical Literature in the Early Modern World (online participation)

Zofia Brzozowska (University of Lodz), The Image of Persian and Arab Women in the Medieval Eastern Slavic Literature (11th–mid-16th century)

Mariyana Tsibranska-Kostova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), “Panoplia Dogmatica” in Slavonic translation: research state and prospective (online participation)

12.30

Angel Nikolov (University of Sofia), A South-Slavic Reworking of the ‘Dialogue of Panagiotes with an Azymite’: ‘A Tale of How Rome Fell from the Orthodox Faith’

Bojana Radovanović (University of Vienna), Profiling the Bogomils in the later Byzantine period: some notes on the Koudougheroi

Jan Mikołaj Wolski (University of Lodz), Anchorites, cenobites, Cosmas the Priest and the beginnings of Bogomilism

 

4. Session, February 2nd 2022, 5.00 PM: Dr. Andrew P. Roach, Senior Lecturer in History, University of Glasgow (UK), Cosmas, Bulgaria and Bogomil: the other in the other Balkan empire.

 

3. Session, December 16th 2021, 5.00 PM: Dr hab. Piotr Czarnecki, Professor of the Jagiellonian University (Poland), Catharism – a Western version of Bogomilism?

 

2. Session, November 9th 2021, 6.30 PM: Prof. John H. Anrold, Professor of Medieval History, University of Cambridge (UK), What was the Albigensian crusade directed against?

 

1. Session, June 16th 2021, 5 PM: Dr. Dženan Dautović, Docent/Lecturer in Medieval History at University of Tuzla (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Reception of John V. A. Fine Jr.’s New interpretation of the Bosnian Church: Interesting sleeve of a never ending historiographical debate.

Prof. Véronique Boudon, The new Galenic manuscript Vlatadon 14: history of a discovery, 20.05.2019, Instytut Historii UŁ. 

Prof. John Wilkins, Galen on how food and medicine work in the body, 21.03.2019, Instytut Historii UŁ.

Prof. Jean-Paul Pittion, The animal analogue in human anatomy and physiology: Galen, Vesalius and Harvey, 21.01.2019, sala seminaryjna Centrum Ceraneum (Pałac Biedermanna).

Prof. Vivian Nutton, The new Galen, 2005–2018, 13.12.2018, Instytut Historii UŁ.

Prof. Danielle Gourevitch, History of medicine for beginners: scholarly wanderings in places, museums, words, and books, 17.10.2018, Sala Kominkowa Pałacu Biedermanna.

Currently there are no open calls.

From the academic year 2014/2015 LLP-Erasmus was replaced by the new program – Erasmus+: http://erasmusplus.org.pl/

Information on teaching staff mobility can be found on the International Relations Office of Lodz University website:
http://bwz.uni.lodz.pl/wyjazdy-pracownikow

Erasmus Partner Universities (with details of the individual agreements):

Czech Republic – Charles University (CZ PRAHA07)

Bulgaria

– Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BG SOFIA30)

– Veliko Turnovo University “Cyril and Methodius” (BG VELIKO01)

– University of Plovdiv (BG PLOVDIV04)

Lithuania – Vilnius University (LT VILNIUS01)

Macedonia – Skopje University “Ss. Cyril and Methodius” (MK SKOPJE01)

Germany – Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (D FREIBUR01)

Slovenia

– University of Primorska (SI KOPER0)

– University of Ljubljana (SI LJUBLJA01)

Turkey – Suleyman Demirel University (TR ISPARTA01)

Italy

– Universita Degli Studi di Firenze (I FIRENZE01)

– Universita Degli Studi di Napoli “l’Orientale” (I NAPOLI02)

– Universita Della Calabria (I COSENZA01)

For more information, please contact the Coordinator for the Erasmus Program dr Agata Kawecka (agata.kawecka@uni.lodz.pl) and the International Relations Office of Lodz University.