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.
Plenary lectures will be delivered by:
- Dr. Andrew Dalby (independent scholar)
- Prof. Alessia Guardasole (French National Centre for Scientific Research)
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.
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 29, 2024 to: colloquia.ceranea@uni.lodz.pl.
Application forms for individual and panel submission are available here:
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 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:
In-person participants will be charged a 300 PLN (Polish zloty) conference fee, which will cover organisational costs, including lunches and coffee break snacks.
For on-line participants the fee will be 200 PLN.
Please note: if your university is unable to cover the conference fee, there may be the possibility to have it reduced to 100 PLN or waived. In order to obtain conference fee discounts or waiver, please specify your request unambiguously in the application form.
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.
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
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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
Biedermann Palace:
ul. Franciszkańska 1/5, Łódź