Zofia A Brzozowska
Biographic Data
| ID | 9268576 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zofia A Brzozowska |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zofia A |
| FAMILY NAME | Brzozowska |
| SIGNATURE | BRZOZOWSKA Z A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lodz |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5951-3781 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Żywot św. Symeona Słupnika Młodszego z Cudownej Góry w roli paratekstu w jednym z odpisów "Latopisu nowogrodzkiego czwartego"
Symeon Stylites the Younger (521–592), also known in the Byzantine-Orthodox tradition as St. Symeon of the Admirable Mountain, is probably one of the most famous and best-documented Syrian ascetics. Many hagiographic works devoted to him have been preserved in Syrian, Arabic, Georgian, Greek and Church Slavic literatures. The corpus of Greek texts is quite extensive and includes two long biographies, several abridged lives and their redactions fo…
Bizantynista w słowiańskim gaju. Prof. dr hab. Mirosław J. Leszka (1963-2024)
In memoriam Mirosław Jerzy Leszka (1963–2024)
Bizantyńska obecność na Krymie i pamięć o niej w literaturze Słowian Południowych i Wschodnich z X–XVI w. (casus biskupów-męczenników z Chersonezu Taurydzkiego)
Celem artykułu jest przedstawienie początków i rozwoju kultu w Kościele wschodnim – zarówno w jego bizantyńskim, jak i słowiańskim wymiarze – siedmiu świętych męczenników: Bazylego, Efrema, Eugeniusza, Elpidiusza, Agatodora, Eteriusza i Kapitona, którzy przynajmniej od IX–X w. czczeni byli jako biskupi Chersonezu, którzy przyczynili się do upowszechnienia chrześcijaństwa na obszarze Półwyspu Krymskiego. W pierwszej części artykułu staramy się zre…
Letopisi, chronographs, paratexts. Some remarks on the Eastern Slavic historical literature in the Middle Ages, on the Margins of the book by Timofei V. Guimon
Ozdobiona wszelkimi cnotami” cesarska siostra Pulcheria i „roztropna” cesarzowa Atenais-Eudocja – co o epoce Teodozjusza II wiedzieli Słowianie prawosławni w średniowieczu
Obraz cesarstwa bizantyńskiego w połowie V w. i wizerunek władających nim osób w piśmiennictwie staroruskim ukształtował się na bazie stworzonych na Bałkanach przekładów cerkiewnosłowiańskich dzieł trzech historyków bizantyńskich: Jana Malalasa (VI w.), Jerzego Mnicha zw. Hamartolosem (IX w.) i Konstantyna Manassesa (XII w.). Wykorzystywanie ich przekazów przez autorów chronografów nawet w drugiej połowie XVI w. świadczy o wyjątkowej żywotności h…
The Qur’ān in Medieval Slavic Writings. Fragmentary Translations and Transmission Traces
The Qur’ān was never translated into Church Slavic in its entirety; still, in the writings of some mediaeval Christian authors (Byzantine and Latin) quite extensive quotations and borrowings from it can be found. Many of these texts were transmitted in the Slavia Orthodoxa area. The aim of this article is to present the Church Slavic literary sources which contain quotations from the Qur’ān. The analysis covers Slavic translations of Byzantine a…
Captives and Refugees. The Forced Migration of the Inhabitants of the Byzantine Eastern Frontier during the 5th–7th Centuries in Light of Byzantine-Slavic Hagiographical Texts
This article is devoted to the image of a social situation in the eastern parts of the Byzantine Empire during the 5th–7th century, which is to be found in the East Christian hagiographical texts. They cannot be treated as a completely reliable source of information, due to exaggerations and simplifications typical for the genre. On the other hand, they testify a long-lasting and vital literary tradition – they were circulating in the Byzantine C…
The image of a muslim arab woman in medieval rus’ literature
Rus’ medieval authors drew information about the history and culture of the Arabs mainly from Byzantine sources, translated into Old-Church-Slavonic. The image was supplemented by observations made by residents of medieval Rus’ in the course of direct contacts with the Arabs (e.g. during their travels to the Holy Land) or ideas about other Islamic peoples, whose customs could be known to old Rus’ authors from personal experience (e.g. Turks or Mo…
Muhammad and the Origin of Islam in the Byzantine-Slavic Literary Context. A Bibliographical History
The presented publication is a type of bibliographic dictionary, compiled by an interdisciplinary team of authors (Byzantynists and Paleoslavists), containing an overview of medieval texts referring to the person of Muhammad, the Arabs, and the circumstances of the birth of Islam, which were known in the Slavia Orthodoxa area (especially in its eastern part, i.e. in Rus’). Therefore, it presents the works written in the Church Slavic language bet…
O Heretyku Mahomecie – Opowieść O Narodzinach Islamu W Latopisie Helleńskim I Rzymskim Drugiej Redakcji
A piece of writing On the Heretic Muhammad concerning the life of Muhammad, the origin of Islam and the first Arab conquests in the 7th century is included in the second redaction of the Hellenic and Roman Chronicle, a medieval Russian historiographical source containing an outline of universal history. The aforementioned text was edited and translated into Polish following the manuscript of РГБ, собр. Пискарева (228), No 162, from 1485
Who Could ‘the Godless Ishmaelites from the Yathrib Desert’ Be to the Author of the Novgorod First Chronicle? The "Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius" in Medieval South and East Slavic Literatures
The work of Pseudo-Methodius, whose creation (in the original Syrian version) dates back to ca. 690, enjoyed considerable popularity in Medieval Slavic literatures. It was translated into Church Slavic thrice. In all likelihood, these translations arose independently of each other in Bulgaria, based on the Greek translation, the so-called ‘first Byzantine redaction’ (from the beginning of the 8th century). From Bulgaria, the Slavic version of the…
Jeden z herezjarchów? Przedstawienia ikonograficzne Mahometa w rękopisie Рнб, f.IV.151 w kontekście staroruskich narracji na jego temat
The РНБ, F.IV.151 manuscript is the third volume of a richly illustrated historiographical compilation (so-called Лицевой летописный свод – Illustrated Chronicle of Ivan the Terrible), which was prepared in one copy for tsar Ivan IV the Terrible in 1568-1576 and represents the development of the Russian state on the broad background of universal history. The aforementioned manuscript, which contains a description of the history of the Roman Empi…
Bułgarski car Piotr i jego żona Maria Lekapena w Latopisie Helleńskim i Rzymskim drugiej edycji
The sequence concerning the reign of Peter and Maria Lekapene as well as the Byzantine-Bulgarian relations between 927 and 969 can be found in the second version of the Hellenic and Roman Chronicle. It is a vast historiographical work, whose authors attempted to demonstrate the history of medieval Rus against the broad background of universal history, drawing on the sources of Byzantine provenance known in Slavonic translation (mainly the chronic…
Rola carycy Marii-Ireny Lekapeny w recepcji elementów bizantyńskiego modelu władzy w pierwszym państwie bułgarskim
Maria Lekapene was the granddaughter of Byzantine Emperor Romanos I Lekapenos. In 927 she married Peter I of Bulgaria. Her marriage in Constantinople aimed to strengthen the newly signed Byzantine-Bulgarian peace treaty. Historians attributed to the Empress a significant impact on the political moves of her husband. The Empress was also to introduce a lot of elements of the Byzantine theory of power in Bulgaria and even to play the role of spy o…
Opowieść o zdobyciu Konstantynopola przez uczestników czwartej wyprawy krzyżowej (6712/1204) w średniowiecznej ruskiej tradycji historiograficznej
The Old-Russian account about the siege of Constantinople by participants of the Fourth Crusade in 1204 has survived in several East Slavic historiographical texts and represents primarily an independent literary work. Certainly, the earliest of these texts is the Novgorod First Chronicle. It is an older edition preserved only in one copy – the so-called “Synodal manuscript”, which was written in the middle of the thirteenth century. At that time…
Wisdom Has Built Her House (Proverbs 9, 1–6). The History of the Notion in Southern and Eastern Slavic Art in the 14th–16th Centuries)
Sophia’s banquet (Divine Wisdom’s banquet) – this type of iconography is an illustration of a specific passage of the ninth chapter of the Old Testament Book of Proverbs: Wisdom hath built herself a house (Prov 9, 1-6). That text became widespread in Old Russian literature within liturgical books containing passages of the Old Testament. Also the comment of Anastasius Sinaites for Proverbs 9, 1-6 was translated into Old Church Slavonic. Iconograp…
Sophia – the Personification of Divine Wisdom in the Culture of Novgorod the Great from 13th to 15th Century
The idea of Sophia – the personified Wisdom of God served as a symbol of independence and identity of the republic in the political culture of Novgorod the Great. In Old Russian chronicles and other narrative sources which can be connected with Novgorod, one may find statements showing that – in the eyes of the Novgorodians themselves – Wisdom was not only one of the main attributes of God, but also a separate character, a kind of divine being, w…
Pochwała wielkiej księżnej włodzimierskiej Marii. Edycja i przekład nieznanego zabytku literatury staroruskiej
This paper is devoted to one particular historical source: the praise of the Grand Princess of Vladimir, Maria Shvarnovna, the first wife of Vsevolod III the Big Nest. The text can be found in the Chronicle of Trinity Monastery, compiled in Moscow around 1408. The monument has not survived to our days and we have only a reconstruction of the text by Priselkov. The publication is divided into three parts. The introduction gives background informat…
Księżna Milica – między sakralizacją władzy monarszej, oficjalnym kultem cerkiewnym i narodowym mitem
This article is devoted to the one of the best known female rulers of medieval Serbia – princess Milica, wife of the prince Lazar Hrebeljanović, who had lost his live during the famous Battle of Kosovo Field in 1389. After the death of her husband, Milica founded the Ljubostinja monastery and became the nun Jevgenija. She was a close friend to the famous Serbian poet Jefimija, who accompanied princess Milica in the diplomatic mission to the Sulta…
The Church of Divine Wisdom or of Christ – the Incarnate "Logos"? Dedication of "Hagia Sophia" in Constantinople in the Light of Byzantine Sources from 5th to 14th Century
The article attempts to answer the question of how the name of the most important Byzantine church of Constantinople, the basilica of Hagia Sophia, built in the mid-4th cent., and then rebuilt during the reign of Justinian the Great was understood and interpreted. The problem has been presented on the basis of the views of Byzantine writers from the 5th to the 14th cent. (Socrates Scholasticus, Procopius of Caesarea, Paul the Silentiary, John Zon…
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The Church of Divine Wisdom or of Christ – the Incarnate "Logos"? Dedication of "Hagia Sophia" in Constantinople in the Light of Byzantine Sources from 5th to 14th Century
The article attempts to answer the question of how the name of the most important Byzantine church of Constantinople, the basilica of Hagia Sophia, built in the mid-4th cent., and then rebuilt during the reign of Justinian the Great was understood and interpreted. The problem has been presented on the basis of the views of Byzantine writers from the 5th to the 14th cent. (Socrates Scholasticus, Procopius of Caesarea, Paul the Silentiary, John Zon…
Pochwała wielkiej księżnej włodzimierskiej Marii. Edycja i przekład nieznanego zabytku literatury staroruskiej
This paper is devoted to one particular historical source: the praise of the Grand Princess of Vladimir, Maria Shvarnovna, the first wife of Vsevolod III the Big Nest. The text can be found in the Chronicle of Trinity Monastery, compiled in Moscow around 1408. The monument has not survived to our days and we have only a reconstruction of the text by Priselkov. The publication is divided into three parts. The introduction gives background informat…
Księżna Milica – między sakralizacją władzy monarszej, oficjalnym kultem cerkiewnym i narodowym mitem
This article is devoted to the one of the best known female rulers of medieval Serbia – princess Milica, wife of the prince Lazar Hrebeljanović, who had lost his live during the famous Battle of Kosovo Field in 1389. After the death of her husband, Milica founded the Ljubostinja monastery and became the nun Jevgenija. She was a close friend to the famous Serbian poet Jefimija, who accompanied princess Milica in the diplomatic mission to the Sulta…
Sophia – the Personification of Divine Wisdom in the Culture of Novgorod the Great from 13th to 15th Century
The idea of Sophia – the personified Wisdom of God served as a symbol of independence and identity of the republic in the political culture of Novgorod the Great. In Old Russian chronicles and other narrative sources which can be connected with Novgorod, one may find statements showing that – in the eyes of the Novgorodians themselves – Wisdom was not only one of the main attributes of God, but also a separate character, a kind of divine being, w…
Wisdom Has Built Her House (Proverbs 9, 1–6). The History of the Notion in Southern and Eastern Slavic Art in the 14th–16th Centuries)
Sophia’s banquet (Divine Wisdom’s banquet) – this type of iconography is an illustration of a specific passage of the ninth chapter of the Old Testament Book of Proverbs: Wisdom hath built herself a house (Prov 9, 1-6). That text became widespread in Old Russian literature within liturgical books containing passages of the Old Testament. Also the comment of Anastasius Sinaites for Proverbs 9, 1-6 was translated into Old Church Slavonic. Iconograp…
Rola carycy Marii-Ireny Lekapeny w recepcji elementów bizantyńskiego modelu władzy w pierwszym państwie bułgarskim
Maria Lekapene was the granddaughter of Byzantine Emperor Romanos I Lekapenos. In 927 she married Peter I of Bulgaria. Her marriage in Constantinople aimed to strengthen the newly signed Byzantine-Bulgarian peace treaty. Historians attributed to the Empress a significant impact on the political moves of her husband. The Empress was also to introduce a lot of elements of the Byzantine theory of power in Bulgaria and even to play the role of spy o…
Opowieść o zdobyciu Konstantynopola przez uczestników czwartej wyprawy krzyżowej (6712/1204) w średniowiecznej ruskiej tradycji historiograficznej
The Old-Russian account about the siege of Constantinople by participants of the Fourth Crusade in 1204 has survived in several East Slavic historiographical texts and represents primarily an independent literary work. Certainly, the earliest of these texts is the Novgorod First Chronicle. It is an older edition preserved only in one copy – the so-called “Synodal manuscript”, which was written in the middle of the thirteenth century. At that time…
Jeden z herezjarchów? Przedstawienia ikonograficzne Mahometa w rękopisie Рнб, f.IV.151 w kontekście staroruskich narracji na jego temat
The РНБ, F.IV.151 manuscript is the third volume of a richly illustrated historiographical compilation (so-called Лицевой летописный свод – Illustrated Chronicle of Ivan the Terrible), which was prepared in one copy for tsar Ivan IV the Terrible in 1568-1576 and represents the development of the Russian state on the broad background of universal history. The aforementioned manuscript, which contains a description of the history of the Roman Empi…
Bułgarski car Piotr i jego żona Maria Lekapena w Latopisie Helleńskim i Rzymskim drugiej edycji
The sequence concerning the reign of Peter and Maria Lekapene as well as the Byzantine-Bulgarian relations between 927 and 969 can be found in the second version of the Hellenic and Roman Chronicle. It is a vast historiographical work, whose authors attempted to demonstrate the history of medieval Rus against the broad background of universal history, drawing on the sources of Byzantine provenance known in Slavonic translation (mainly the chronic…
Who Could ‘the Godless Ishmaelites from the Yathrib Desert’ Be to the Author of the Novgorod First Chronicle? The "Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius" in Medieval South and East Slavic Literatures
The work of Pseudo-Methodius, whose creation (in the original Syrian version) dates back to ca. 690, enjoyed considerable popularity in Medieval Slavic literatures. It was translated into Church Slavic thrice. In all likelihood, these translations arose independently of each other in Bulgaria, based on the Greek translation, the so-called ‘first Byzantine redaction’ (from the beginning of the 8th century). From Bulgaria, the Slavic version of the…
Muhammad and the Origin of Islam in the Byzantine-Slavic Literary Context. A Bibliographical History
The presented publication is a type of bibliographic dictionary, compiled by an interdisciplinary team of authors (Byzantynists and Paleoslavists), containing an overview of medieval texts referring to the person of Muhammad, the Arabs, and the circumstances of the birth of Islam, which were known in the Slavia Orthodoxa area (especially in its eastern part, i.e. in Rus’). Therefore, it presents the works written in the Church Slavic language bet…
O Heretyku Mahomecie – Opowieść O Narodzinach Islamu W Latopisie Helleńskim I Rzymskim Drugiej Redakcji
A piece of writing On the Heretic Muhammad concerning the life of Muhammad, the origin of Islam and the first Arab conquests in the 7th century is included in the second redaction of the Hellenic and Roman Chronicle, a medieval Russian historiographical source containing an outline of universal history. The aforementioned text was edited and translated into Polish following the manuscript of РГБ, собр. Пискарева (228), No 162, from 1485
Captives and Refugees. The Forced Migration of the Inhabitants of the Byzantine Eastern Frontier during the 5th–7th Centuries in Light of Byzantine-Slavic Hagiographical Texts
This article is devoted to the image of a social situation in the eastern parts of the Byzantine Empire during the 5th–7th century, which is to be found in the East Christian hagiographical texts. They cannot be treated as a completely reliable source of information, due to exaggerations and simplifications typical for the genre. On the other hand, they testify a long-lasting and vital literary tradition – they were circulating in the Byzantine C…
The image of a muslim arab woman in medieval rus’ literature
Rus’ medieval authors drew information about the history and culture of the Arabs mainly from Byzantine sources, translated into Old-Church-Slavonic. The image was supplemented by observations made by residents of medieval Rus’ in the course of direct contacts with the Arabs (e.g. during their travels to the Holy Land) or ideas about other Islamic peoples, whose customs could be known to old Rus’ authors from personal experience (e.g. Turks or Mo…
The Qur’ān in Medieval Slavic Writings. Fragmentary Translations and Transmission Traces
The Qur’ān was never translated into Church Slavic in its entirety; still, in the writings of some mediaeval Christian authors (Byzantine and Latin) quite extensive quotations and borrowings from it can be found. Many of these texts were transmitted in the Slavia Orthodoxa area. The aim of this article is to present the Church Slavic literary sources which contain quotations from the Qur’ān. The analysis covers Slavic translations of Byzantine a…
Letopisi, chronographs, paratexts. Some remarks on the Eastern Slavic historical literature in the Middle Ages, on the Margins of the book by Timofei V. Guimon
Ozdobiona wszelkimi cnotami” cesarska siostra Pulcheria i „roztropna” cesarzowa Atenais-Eudocja – co o epoce Teodozjusza II wiedzieli Słowianie prawosławni w średniowieczu
Obraz cesarstwa bizantyńskiego w połowie V w. i wizerunek władających nim osób w piśmiennictwie staroruskim ukształtował się na bazie stworzonych na Bałkanach przekładów cerkiewnosłowiańskich dzieł trzech historyków bizantyńskich: Jana Malalasa (VI w.), Jerzego Mnicha zw. Hamartolosem (IX w.) i Konstantyna Manassesa (XII w.). Wykorzystywanie ich przekazów przez autorów chronografów nawet w drugiej połowie XVI w. świadczy o wyjątkowej żywotności h…
In memoriam Mirosław Jerzy Leszka (1963–2024)
Bizantyńska obecność na Krymie i pamięć o niej w literaturze Słowian Południowych i Wschodnich z X–XVI w. (casus biskupów-męczenników z Chersonezu Taurydzkiego)
Celem artykułu jest przedstawienie początków i rozwoju kultu w Kościele wschodnim – zarówno w jego bizantyńskim, jak i słowiańskim wymiarze – siedmiu świętych męczenników: Bazylego, Efrema, Eugeniusza, Elpidiusza, Agatodora, Eteriusza i Kapitona, którzy przynajmniej od IX–X w. czczeni byli jako biskupi Chersonezu, którzy przyczynili się do upowszechnienia chrześcijaństwa na obszarze Półwyspu Krymskiego. W pierwszej części artykułu staramy się zre…
Bizantynista w słowiańskim gaju. Prof. dr hab. Mirosław J. Leszka (1963-2024)
Żywot św. Symeona Słupnika Młodszego z Cudownej Góry w roli paratekstu w jednym z odpisów "Latopisu nowogrodzkiego czwartego"
Symeon Stylites the Younger (521–592), also known in the Byzantine-Orthodox tradition as St. Symeon of the Admirable Mountain, is probably one of the most famous and best-documented Syrian ascetics. Many hagiographic works devoted to him have been preserved in Syrian, Arabic, Georgian, Greek and Church Slavic literatures. The corpus of Greek texts is quite extensive and includes two long biographies, several abridged lives and their redactions fo…
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