Studia Ceranea is an international journal devoted to the history and culture of the Mediterranean and Southeastern Europe from the 1st to the 18th century CE. It brings together research in Late Antiquity, Byzantine and Slavic studies, as well as the history of religion, philosophy, law, literature, art, and archaeology. All articles are published in English.
The newest volume offers a wide range of topics:
Gone Like Smoke or Mist – the Beauty and Wonders of Constantinople in Vernacular Laments on its Fall in 1453
Michał Bzinkowski
Magic, Demons, and Heretics: Three Puzzling Cases in The Letter of Euthymius of Akmonia
Mirena Slavova
The 722 Slavic Manuscript from the Library of the Romanian Academy in Bucharest and the Polish Chronicle
Ivan Biliarsky
Beautiful and ‘Fiery in Spirit’? The Complexity of the Image of Emperor Isaac II Angelos in the History by Niketas Choniates
Ana Cagić
The Image of Caliph ‘Ali in the Chronography of Theophanes
Błażej Cecota
The Octopus as a Literary Figure in Imperial-Era Literature
Marta Czapińska-Bambara
Some Alternative Translations of the Chronicle of Al-AnṬākī
Maciej Czyż
Text-Critical Notes to Constantine of Preslav’s Didactic Gospel
Ekaterina Dikova
The Relations between the Komitopules and the Peoples of the Steppes of Eastern Europe. A Vain Hope for an Alliance
Jarosław Dudek
How to Justify a Murderer: Ancient Rhetorical Echoes in Alexandre Sylvain Van den Bussche’s Épitomes de cent histoires tragiques
Justyna Giernatowska
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)
Kiril Gospodinov
Art of Tradition: The Armenian Gospel Books (Seventeenth Century) in the Gulbenkian Collection
Hermine Grigoryan, Maria Adelaide Miranda, Lusine Sargsyan, Jorge Rodrigues, Karen Matevosyan, Maria João Melo
Premodern Armenian Medicine, Tsaghik and Potential New Evidence for the Early History of Smallpox
Naira Hambardzumyan, Vardanush Postajyan, Barbara Zipser
Two Unrecognized Hydronyms on the Island of Crete
Elwira Kaczyńska
Representing the Ideal: The Portrait of the Sanguine in Cesare Ripa’s Iconologia
Magdalena Koźluk
Celibacy, Priesthood, Marriage, Puberty and Popular Culture in the Works of 14th Century Tarnovo Authors
Hristo Saldzhiev
The Evolution of Ottoman Night Operations: From Emirate to Empire
Husamettin Simsir
Assessing the Demographic and Economic Parameters that Determined the Residential History of Medieval Central Greece: the Case of Western Sterea Hellas
George Terezakis
Once Again About the Short Slavic Redactions of Zonaras’ Chronicle
Anna-Maria Totomanova
The Autocephalous Structure of the Orthodox Church in a Historical – Canonical Perspective
Ivan Yovchev
Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Canons of the Matins in Honour of Saints Constantine and Helena
Anastasia Nikolaou
The issue is complemented by reviews of recent publications in Byzantine studies, Slavic studies, and the history of the Mediterranean world:
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
Zofia Aleksandra Brzozowska
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
Błażej Cecota
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
Justyna Dopierała
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
Justyna Dopierała
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
Yanko Hristov
