Dear Colleagues,
the 7th edition of the conference will be held 8-10 May 2025.
The conference will be devoted to various topics related to the history and culture of the Eastern Mediterranean world in antiquity, the middle ages and the early modern period, especially Byzantium and the southern Slavic countries.
We propose to you three thematic panels:
> History of food and medicine
> Constantinopolitan education, Constantinopolitan university – marking the 1600 anniversary of the Theodosian constitutions
> Varia: history and culture of Late Antiquity, Byzantium and Slavic World
Panel descriptions can be found below.
INDIVIDUAL AND PANEL SUBMISSIONS:
You are encouraged to submit your thematic proposals or thematic group proposals, organised around one specific topic (i.e. thematic panels). Each panel should consist of a minimum of 3 speakers. Individual submissions are also welcome. Proposals for panel topics (including the list of panel speakers) as well as individual submissions should be sent by February 28, 2025 to: colloquia.ceranea@uni.lodz.pl.
APPLICATION FORMS:
individual (click to download)
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, 2025.
However, if you are unable to supply it by that time, there will still be the possibility to deliver your text by December 31, 2025, for it to be published in the volume covering 2026. Here you will find all editorial instructions: czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/sceranea.
Selected papers on the history of medicine and food will be published in the series “Medical Traditions” or “Medicine in the Medieval Mediterranean” by De Gruyter.
The proceedings of the panel devoted to Constantinopolitan education will be published either in a separate volume of the series “Byzantina Lodziensia” or in “Studia Ceranea”.
CONFERENCE FEE:
In-person participants will be charged a 350 PLN (Polish zloty) conference fee, which will cover organisational costs, including lunches and coffee break snacks.
For on-line participants the fee will be 250 PLN.
Please note: if your university is unable to cover the conference fee, there may be the possibility to have it reduced to 150 PLN or waived. In order to obtain conference fee discounts or waiver, please specify your request unambiguously in the application form.
LANGUAGE:
Although we expect the majority of papers to be delivered in English, other languages are also acceptable, provided that the speaker prepares an English hand-out (or multimedia presentation) outlining the main points of the talk.
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.
THEMATIC PANELS:
Constantinopolitan education, Constantinopolitan university – marking the 1600 anniversary of the Theodosian constitutions
- Keynote speaker: Prof. Dr. Albrecht Berger (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)
Two imperial constitutions of Theodosius II, promulgated in February and March 425 in Constantinople, reformed higher education in the capital of the eastern Roman/Byzantine Empire. Thus a new kind of a state run established institution was created, a much too often forgotten landmark in the history of European education. For many decades it has been called ‘a university’, yet not without hesitations, the inverted commas or semiserious treatment. Paradoxically perhaps, the very existence of this school seems to be only ‘internal knowledge’, as it is almost completely unrecognized outside Byzantine studies.
The reasons for the reservations are known: no system of superiors and subordinates, no faculties, no academic titles and diplomas. Mentor-pupil relationships and not student-institution ones. No evidence of stable continuity through the centuries.
And yet there are many arguments that help to highlight the unique and specific character of this establishment: the fact of its existence and the later reforms over its first two, the imperial decisions of the middle Byzantine period that reinvented higher education anew, the form of employment and dismissal of teachers, the auditoria, the customs, habits and students’ festivals (cf. Trullanum), the curricula for students (law), imperial supervision and concern, clear differentiation between public and private teachers, different arts united in one educational institution, the decision of 425 itself.
The 1600th anniversary provides a splendid opportunity to reconcile our views and to revisit our perception of higher education and of arts & sciences throughout the whole history of the Byzantine Empire, with a central focus on Constantinople. A broader perspective covering western medieval universities, and higher education of the era in Asia and Africa is more than welcome.
Proposals for discussion:
• constitutions of 425, their background and consequences
• further reforms and development, 6th-15th century
• topography of education in Constantinople
• comparative approach: western medieval Europe
• comparative approach: Caliphate, Iran, Caucasus etc.
• comparative approach: India, South-East Asia, China, Korea & Japan
• legal education in Constantinople, 4th-15th c.
• philosophy in Constantinople, 4th-15th c.
• grammarians and rhetors in Constantinople and their involvement in higher education
• the needs of the state, needs of intellectuals
• science in Byzantium, 4th-15th c.
• science and specific disciplines of knowledge (Fachwissenschaften) and their spread from Constantinople
• diffusion of knowledge, role of scriptoria and libraries
• Constantinopolitan imperial school: a university or not?
History of Food and Medicine
We intend to continue our interdisciplinary dialogue on various aspects of medical and culinary history in Antiquity and Byzantium. For this reason, we have secured the collaboration of a group of leading academics to form the conference's international Scientific Committee.
They are:
• Dr. Sean Coughlin (Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences);
• Prof. Małgorzata Drywień (Warsaw University of Life Sciences);
• Dr. phil. Dr. habil. Isabel Grimm-Stadelmann (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich);
• Dr. Barbara Huber (Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology and University of Tübingen);
• Prof. Maciej Kokoszko (University of Łódź);
• Dr. Manuela Marai (independent scholar);
• Dr. Evi Margaritis (The Cyprus Institute);
• Dr. Gerasimos Merianos (National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens);
• Dr. Dimitra Mylona (INSTAP Study Center for East Crete);
• Dr. Effie Photos-Jones (University of Glasgow);
• Dr. Danuta Raj (Wrocław Medical University);
• Prof. Alain Touwaide (Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions, Washington, DC);
• Prof. Joanita Vroom (Leiden University);
• Prof. John Wilkins, Emeritus Professor (University of Exeter).
The diverse backgrounds of the committee members guarantee that the symposium will be truly multidisciplinary, furthering our strong belief that it is only through mutual support that we can boldly cross the boundaries between our separate fields of research, and thus paint a more holistic picture of the past.
Keynote lectures will be delivered by:
• Dr. Barbara Huber (Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology and University of Tübingen)
• Dr. Manuela Marai (independent scholar)
• Prof. Joanita Vroom (Leiden University)
In the present edition we would like to focus on:
• Re-enactment (= reconstruction = replication) as a research method in the studies into ancient and Byzantine medicine
• Re-enactment (= reconstruction = replication) as a research method in the studies into ancient and Byzantine food
• Re-enactment (= reconstruction = replication) as a means of popularising research into medicine and food of Antiquity and Byzantium
• Ancient and Byzantine diet and ars coquinaria – continuity or change?;
• Reception and reinterpretation of ancient medical theory in Byzantium;
• Transmission of ancient medical heritage into the Arab and Western world;
• Byzantine and Post-Byzantine medical manuscripts;
• Ancient and Byzantine medicine in the light of modern medical knowledge;
• 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;
• Foods and medicaments as markers of social status in the Mediterranean of Antiquity and Byzantium;
• Alchemy: sources and practices;
• Disability in Antiquity and Byzantium;
• Medical punishments (blinding, mutilation etc.) in historiographic and legal sources.
Varia: History and Culture of Late Antiquity, Byzantium and the Slavic World
As always, we await papers discussing other research fields, such as:
• religion and spiritual culture: texts, monasteries, new ideas and heresies;
• material culture and everyday life;
• historical and political geography;
• historiography;
• political history, peace and war studies;
• society, mores and social norms;
• language;
• art and visual culture;
• political culture and ideology.
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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VENUE
Institute of History
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
ABSTRACTS
Links for the online proceedings
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9 MAY
Room 103 8:50-9:00 Conference opening 9:00-10:00 PLENARY LECTURE Andrew Dalby A last dinner with Alexander
10:15-12:00 Room 103 SESSION I Moderator: Andrew Dalby Maciej Helbig ἄρα γε απὸ τῶν καρπῶν αὐτῶν ἐπιγνώσεσθε αὐτούς. Usage of dates in Roman cuisine according to De re coquinaria by Apicius Marina Koumanoudi Eat, Drink, Rejoice, and Organise: The Wedding Banquets of Isabella Villehardouin and Philip I of Savoy Paulina Komar, Dimitri Van Limbergen The taste of late antique wines: comparing fermentation practices between East and West Jana Kopáčková Wine and olive oil production in Histria and Dalmatia during Late Antiquity and Byzantine period (4th – 7th century) - change of social-economic patterns
12:15-14:00 Room 103 SESSION II Moderator: Paulina Komar Alexandra Livarda, Patricia Vandorpe,Federica Riso Culinary trajectories in the Roman Empire through archaeobotanical evidence: from Italy to the northern provinces Erica Rowan Under the Rubble: Late Antique Diet at Aphrodisias Sophia Germanidou Not just a beautiful flower but a miraculous plant: the flax Federica Rotelli Plant Globalization in the Roman and Early Byzantine World
15:00-16:45 Room 103 SESSION III Moderator: Sophia Germanidou MarcoMuresu (online participant) Alimentation and Meals in Middle Byzantine Mount Athos Alfred Galik Eating habits in Ancient and Byzantine Ephesos Vedat Onar, Aleksander Chrószcz, Dominik Poradowski, Rahmi Asal, Sırrı Çömlekçi (online participants) The anatomical distribution of slaughter animals skeletal remains from Theodosius Harbour
17:00-18:45 Room 103 SESSION IV Moderator: Manuela Marai Gerasimos Merianos Parallels between Alchemy and Theology in Byzantium Mark Beumer (online participant) From temple sleep to church sleep. New perspectives Evy Johanne Håland Healing rituals in modern and ancient Greece, a comparison Jonathan Flood (online participant) Healing Water Chemistry at Temples of Asclepius in Greece and Italy
10 MAY
9:00-10:00 Room 103 PLENARY LECTURE (online) Alessia Guardasole ‟So that those who are searching can find them easily”: Crito's Cosmetics table of contents in Galen's Compound drugsaccording to places; how Galen's censuring marked the success of a work
10:15-12:00 Room 103 SESSION V Moderator: Barbara Zipser Claire Burridge At the Margins of Medicine: An Examination of the Addition of Dietary Advice to Latin Manuscripts Before c. 1000 Leonie Rau Potions, Pills, and Perfumes: Tracing Medical Knowledge in an Arabic Dispensatory from 10th-Century Andalusia Jan van Doren ‘All excesses are harmful’ – Anthimus’ De observatione ciborum in Carolingian medical manuscripts
12:15-14:00 Room 103 SESSION VI Moderator: Marina Koumanoudi Tomasz Waliszewski Oil for Theophanes. Reflections on the chaîne opératoire of olive oil in late antique Phoenicia Patryk Grancow Seafood as aphrodisiacs in the light of select ancient literary sources Conan Doyle Pepper, peacock and petra oleum: The early medieval English reception of late antique dietetic medicine Barbara Zipser Pharmacy or kitchen? Reconstructing the workspace of Ioannes archiatrus
15:00-16:45 Room 103 SESSION VII (online) Moderator:Alessia Guardasole Sean Coughlin A Digital Approach to Ancient Recipes Caterina Manco (online participant) “Because you’re worth it”? Galen on Hair Katarzyna Gromek(online participant) Precious oil of Alexandria - reconstruction of the salca oil Veronika Kelbecheva, Gergana Petkova, Vanya Ivanova (online participants) Issues of Medical Latin in the Context of Bulgarian Higher Education
11 MAY
9:00-10:45 Room 103 SESSION VIII (online) Moderator: John Wilkins Tomáš Alušík(online participant) Medicine and population state of health in prehistoric and archaic Greece (ca. 10000-500 BC) Manuela Marai Patterns of ingredients and antimicrobial substances in Galen's wound healing plasters Maciej Kokoszko, Zofia RzeźnickaPolyarchion revisited Isabel Grimm-Stadelmann The use of insects as materia medica
11:00-12:45 Room 103 SESSION IX Moderator: Isabel Grimm-Stadelmann Elias Valiakos (online participant) Examining and analyzing Metrodora's work: On Women's Diseases of the Womb Flavio Bevacqua Scientific taxonomies and pharmacological practice in Neophytos Prodromenos’ notebook (Parisinus gr. 2286) Alain Touwaide Preparing Medicines in Byzantium
13:45-15:30 Room 103 SESSION X Moderator: Sean Coughlin Fatma Abdelhay (online participant) The Scientific Traditions in Compiling Aqrābādhīn: A Crossed History from the East to the West Efraim Lev Arabic Medicine and Pharmacology as Practiced by Jews in Medieval Muslim Lands Anya King(online participant) Drug, Food, Perfume: Nutsedges in Early Islamic Culture
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9 MAY
10:15-12:00 Room 203 SESSION Ia Moderator: Simeon Hinkovski Marcin Böhm Constantine Porphyrogenitus and the Siege of Ragusa (866–868). The role of Ragusa as a Byzantine naval base in the second half of the 9th century Pantelis Charalampakis (online participant) A Byzantine Family Through the Centuries: The Kostomiris as a Case Study of Social History and Prosopography Maciej Czyż Some alternative readings of the chronicle of Al-Anṭākī
12:15-14:00 Room 203 SESSION IIa Moderator Simeon Hinkovski New documents about the reign of tzar Ivan Alexander Kirił Marinow In defence of the St. Demetrius' honour. Theodore Balsamon's gloss on the expedition of Isaac II Angelos against the Bulgarians in 1186 Agon Rrezja Defending the West Border: A Challenge for Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos (1081-1118)
15:00-16:45 Room 203 SESSION IIIa Moderator: Paweł Filipczak Andrea Bernier Comes Orientis and Vicarius Mesopotamiae. A reform of Constantius II gone unnoticed Marek Jankowiak Byzantine bureaucracy in the “Dark Age”: A view from the Trullo Hall Adam Łukaszewicz Remarks on some aspects of the administration of Egypt in the early 4th century Szymon Olszaniec Administrative divisions of Italy in the IV – VI century: state of art
17:00-18:45 Room 203 SESSION IVa Moderator Viktor Humennyi (online participant) Powers of the border-zone: the epigraphical perspective over Late Roman military governing of the Syrian area in the 3rd-4th c. CE Tülin Kaya (online participant) An Assessment of Roads and Routes in Byzantine Anatolia (ca.4th - 9thc.) Viktor Melnyk (online participant) The Visigothic Kingdom of Toulouse as a Consequence of the Lex Foedus Legal Practice Marcin Wieczorek Geographic Description of Caucasus in Late Antiquity through Roman and Iberian Eyes
10 MAY
10:15-12:00 Room 203 SESSION Va Moderator: Jan Mikołaj Wolski Dimo Penkov, Ivan Yovchev Nature and ways of penetration of the Paulician heresy in the Bulgarian lands during the Middle Ages(presented in their absence by Dr. Shtoni Kokoudev) Ivan Christov Euthymius Zigabenus on the eastern sects and heresies as sources of Bogomilism Shtoni Kokoudev (Fr. Sava) Comparative aspects of the medieval dualistic heresies on the Balkans Ekaterina Dikova (online participant) Text-Critical Notes to Constantine of Preslav’s Didactic Gospel
12:15-14:00 Room 203 SESSION VIa Moderator: Ivan Christov Bojana Radovanović (online participant) Migration histories in respect to the transmission of religious ideas, on the example of the Bogomils Piotr Czarnecki Eastern Elements in Cathar Doctrines – an Argument for the Traditional Interpretation of Catharism Vladislav Atanassov (online participant) The New Testament in the argument of the heretics described in the Sermon of Presbyter Kosma
15:00-16:45 Room 203 SESSION VIIa Moderator: Piotr Czarnecki Maja Angelovska-Panova (online participant) Enlightens: The Legacy of Ss. Clement and Naum of Ohrid Andrew Roach, Jan Mikołaj Wolski What should we do with heretics? A few examples of the authorities strategies from the Balkan Middle Ages
11 MAY
9:00-10:45 Room 203 SESSION VIIIa Moderator Aneta Dimitrova Interlinear and Marginal Glosses in the Athonite Translation of John Chrysostom’s De Statuis Anna-Maria Totomanova The short recension of Ioannes Zonaras’ Ἐπιτομὴ Ἱστοριῶν in the Slavonic manuscript tradition Ivan P. Petrov (online participant) Once again towards the mental and cognitive terms in Old Church Slavonic: the Greek ἔννοια in Constantine of Preslav’s Didactic Gospel and beyond
11:00-12:45 Room 203 SESSION IXa Moderator: Aneta Dimitrova Michał Stachura The Vandal habrosyne and its significance in Procopius' account of the rise and fall of the Vandal state Maria Totomanova-Paneva On Some Greek Glosses in MS Zogr. 105 Tsvetan Vasilev Selected icons in Greek language from the collection of the National Church History and Archaeological Museum in Sofia – philological analysis Magdalena Garnczarska Why might Patriarch Germanos I have been the author of the treatise “On the Divine Liturgy”?
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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 (4th – 7th 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 4th 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
BOOK OF ABSTRACTS:
You may download here the book of abstracts and programme in pdf file:
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 8th 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 10th-11th centuries and attacks on Christians in the lands of Islam.
Elisabeta Negrău (online participant) A 6th-Century Story in a 9th-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 (7th-9th 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 12th – Early 13th 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 12th and 13th 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 10th–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 15th Сentury Repentance Prayers in the Slavonic South
Illia Rudyk (online participant) The Itinerant Greek Orthodox Hierarchy in the 17th 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 (13th 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.
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
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
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)
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
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]
PROGRAMME
(ALL TIMES ARE CEST, UTC+2)
15 APRIL
PLENARY ROOM:
11.50 Conference opening
12.00 Mariyana Tsibranska–Kostova
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 (12th-13th 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 9th-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
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 12th – beginning of the 13th 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 12th book Geoponica by Cassianus Bassus
Lilia Isabel López Ferman Galactology in Spanish medicine, 16th and 17th 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
17 April
PLENARY ROOM:
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 18th 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
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
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
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)
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
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]
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
Biedermann Palace:
ul. Franciszkańska 1/5, Łódź