Open Access Journal: Studia Ceranea: Journal of the Waldemar Ceran Research Centre for the History and Culture of the Mediterranean Area and South-East Europe

 [First posted in AWOL 11 August 2016, updated 19 April 2026]

Studia Ceranea: Journal of the Waldemar Ceran Research Centre for the History and Culture of the Mediterranean Area and South-East Europe
ISSN: 2084-140X
eISSN: 2449-8378

Studia Ceranea. Journal of the Waldemar Ceran Research Centre for the History and Culture of the Mediterranean Area and South-East Europe is published at the Waldemar Ceran Research Centre for the History and Culture of the Mediterranean Area and South-East Europe (Ceraneum), University of Łódź.

Studia Ceranea being designed as an international journal, contributions in the standard conference languages will be accepted (English, French, German, Russian and Italian). We have resolved to accept papers pertaining to the history of the Mediterranean and the Slavic area within the chronological limits from the 1st through the 17th century AD.

The task that the Editorial Council of Studia Ceranea has set before itself is the gradual creation of a scientific journal, interdisciplinary in character, which will offer specialist articles, reviews and notes on newly published monographs. Along these lines, we will attempt to cross the limits of the narrow specializations restricted to Byzantine or Slavic studies; the papers contributed would represent various aspects of the Late Ancient, Byzantine and Slavic culture of the Mediterranean Area and South-East Europe, which – we claim – forms an integrity, for all its diversity. Consequently, the journal, based on previous models of other respectable journals devoted to similar subject matters,  utilizes the methodology and achievements of disciplines used in the study of late antiquity, Middle Ages and Modern Era and is ready to face the new challenges posed by contemporary humanist thought.

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  Vol. 15 (2025)

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Articles

• Gone Like Smoke or Mist – the Beauty and Wonders of Constantinople in Vernacular Laments on its Fall in 1453

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.18778/2084-140X.15.26

  Michał Bzinkowski

  11-30

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• Magic, Demons, and Heretics: Three Puzzling Cases in The Letter of Euthymius of Akmonia

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.18778/2084-140X.15.20

  Mirena Slavova

  31-41

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• The 722 Slavic Manuscript from the Library of the Romanian Academy in Bucharest and the Polish Chronicle

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.18778/2084-140X.15.16

  Ivan Biliarsky

  45-58

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• Beautiful and ‘Fiery in Spirit’? The Complexity of the Image of Emperor Isaac II Angelos in the History by Niketas Choniates

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.18778/2084-140X.15.19

  Ana Cagić

  59-77

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• The Image of Caliph ‘Ali in the Chronography of Theophanes

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.18778/2084-140X.15.13

  Błażej Cecota

  79-89

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• The Octopus as a Literary Figure in Imperial-Era Literature

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.18778/2084-140X.15.22

  Marta Czapińska-Bambara

  91-105

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• Some Alternative Translations of the Chronicle of Al-AnṬākī

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.18778/2084-140X.15.25

  Maciej Czyż

  107-147

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• Text-Critical Notes to Constantine of Preslav’s Didactic Gospel

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.18778/2084-140X.15.10

  Ekaterina Dikova

  149-166

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• The Relations between the Komitopules and the Peoples of the Steppes of Eastern Europe. A Vain Hope for an Alliance

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.18778/2084-140X.15.17

  Jarosław Dudek

  167-187

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• How to Justify a Murderer: Ancient Rhetorical Echoes in Alexandre Sylvain Van den Bussche’s Épitomes de cent histoires tragiques

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.18778/2084-140X.15.23

  Justyna Giernatowska

  189-212

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• The Translation of Medieval Sources and Historical Reconstruction: a New Perspective on the Problem of the Birth Year of the Bulgarian Tsar John II Assen (1218–1241)

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.18778/2084-140X.15.07

  Kiril Gospodinov

  213-236

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• Art of Tradition: The Armenian Gospel Books (Seventeenth Century) in the Gulbenkian Collection

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.18778/2084-140X.15.15

  Hermine Grigoryan, Maria Adelaide Miranda, Lusine Sargsyan, Jorge Rodrigues, Karen Matevosyan, Maria João Melo

  237-259

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• Premodern Armenian Medicine, Tsaghik and Potential New Evidence for the Early History of Smallpox

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.18778/2084-140X.15.08

  Naira Hambardzumyan, Vardanush Postajyan, Barbara Zipser

  261-284

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• Two Unrecognized Hydronyms on the Island of Crete

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.18778/2084-140X.15.14

  Elwira Kaczyńska

  285-296

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• Representing the Ideal: The Portrait of the Sanguine in Cesare Ripa’s Iconologia

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.18778/2084-140X.15.11

  Magdalena Koźluk

  297-318

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• Celibacy, Priesthood, Marriage, Puberty and Popular Culture in the Works of 14th Century Tarnovo Authors

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.18778/2084-140X.15.24

  Hristo Saldzhiev

  319-342

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• The Evolution of Ottoman Night Operations: From Emirate to Empire

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.18778/2084-140X.15.09

  Husamettin Simsir

  343-361

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• Assessing the Demographic and Economic Parameters that Determined the Residential History of Medieval Central Greece: the Case of Western Sterea Hellas

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.18778/2084-140X.15.12

  George Terezakis

  363-393

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• Once Again About the Short Slavic Redactions of Zonaras’ Chronicle

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.18778/2084-140X.15.21

  Anna-Maria Totomanova

  395-409

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• The Autocephalous Structure of the Orthodox Church in a Historical – Canonical Perspective

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.18778/2084-140X.15.18

  Ivan Yovchev

  411-430

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• Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Canons of the Matins in Honour of Saints Constantine and Helena

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.18778/2084-140X.15.06

  Anastasia Nikolaou

  433-477

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Book reviews

• Theodore Syncellus, The Homilies ‘On the Robe’ and ‘On the Siege’, trans. with introduction and notes by Michael Whitby, Liverpool University Press, Liverpool 2024 [= Translated Texts for Historians, 86], pp. 156

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.18778/2084-140X.15.01

  Zofia Aleksandra Brzozowska

  481-485

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• Eugénie Rébillard, Imposer l’ordre. La police dans les villes et les campagnes de l’Iraq abbasside (132–334/750–945), Presses de l’Ifpo, Beyrouth 2024 [= Études arabes, médiévales et modernes, 306], pp. 724, https://doi.org/10.4000/13m0h

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.18778/2084-140X.15.02

  Błażej Cecota

  487-491

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• Codex Suprasliensis. Kodeks Supraski czyli Cyrylicka Księga Supraska w przekładzie na język polski [Codex Suprasliensis. Suprasliensis Cyryllic Book in Polish Translation], ed. priest H. Paprocki, Książnica Podlaska, Białystok 2023, pp. 438

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.18778/2084-140X.15.04

  Justyna Dopierała

  493-494

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• Zofia A. Brzozowska, София – олицетворенная Премудрость Божия. История сюжета в византийско-славянской культуре [Sophia – the Personification of Divine Wisdom. The History of the Notion in the Byzantine-Slavic Culture], Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Łódź 2024 [= Byzantina Lodziensia, 48], pp. 402, https://doi.org/10.18778/8331-545-4

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.18778/2084-140X.15.05

  Justyna Dopierała

  495-496

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• НИКОЛАЙ ХРИСИМОВ, България и европейският запад през първите десетилетия на IX век [Nikolay Hrissimov, Bulgaria and the European West in the First Decades of the 9th Century], Изток-Запад, София 2023, pp. 294

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.18778/2084-140X.15.03

  Yanko Hristov

  497-499

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  Vol. 14 (2024)

  Zadanie finansowane ze środków programu Rozwój Czasopism Naukowych w ramach umowy nr RCN/SP/0024/2021/1

• Early View

  Early View contains peer-reviewed and copy-edited articles which have been accepted for publication and assigned a DOI number. The articles can already be cited as they will be included in the next journal issue.

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  Vol. 13 (2023)

  Zadanie finansowane ze środków programu Rozwój Czasopism Naukowych w ramach umowy nr RCN/SP/0024/2021/1

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  Vol. 12 (2022)
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  Vol. 11 (2021)
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  Vol. 10 (2020)

  Task: Publication of English-language versions of the volumes of the yearly Studia Ceranea. Journal of the Waldemar Ceran Research Centre for the History and Culture of the Mediterranean Area and South-East Europe financed through contract no. 605/P-DUN/2019, 12.06.2019 from the funds of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education devoted to the promotion of scholarship

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  Vol. 9 (2019)
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  Vol. 8 (2018)

  Task: Publication of English-language versions of the volumes of the yearly Studia Ceranea. Journal of the Waldemar Ceran Research Centre for the History and Culture of the Mediterranean Area and South-East Europe financed through contract no. 501/1/P-DUN/2017 from the funds of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education devoted to the promotion of scholarship

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  Vol. 7 (2017)

  Task: Publication of English-language versions of the volumes of the yearly Studia Ceranea. Journal of the Waldemar Ceran Research Centre for the History and Culture of the Mediterranean Area and South-East Europe financed through contract no. 501/1/P-DUN/2017 from the funds of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education devoted to the promotion of scholarship

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  Vol. 6 (2016)
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  Vol. 5 (2015)
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  Vol. 4 (2014)
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  Vol. 3 (2013)
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  Vol. 2 (2012)
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  Vol. 1 (2011)

  Edition is financed by The City of Łódź Office

 

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