Böcker utgivna av Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo

The aim of the book is to show the reader the commanders of the early Byzantine army during the times of emperors Zeno (474-491) and Anastasius I (491-518). The authors focused on the role that selected commanders played in the empire's military struggles with hostile peoples and states. Researchers are also interested in their role in the political life of the empire. Presenting profiles representative of the military elite of the empire from the years 474-518 gave the authors the opportunity to trace their path to the highest military positions, family connections, and involvement in religious and cultural life. The book is divided into five basic parts. The first part addresses the topic of organization and the problem of the size of the army of the late Roman Empire and early Byzantium. The second one discusses the policy of emperors Zeno and Anastasius regarding the appointment of magisters militum. The third one describes the most important opponents of the Byzantine Empire, with whom the leaders appointed by Zeno and Anastasius had to fight, namely the Ostrogoths, Persians and Bulgarians. The fourth part shows the involvement of representatives of the military elite in usurpations and rebellions in the times of Zeno and Anastasius I. Finally, the fifth part includes ten exemplary biographies of militum magisters active in the times of Zeno and Anastasius I (Areobindus, Armatus, Faresmanes, Hypatius, Illus, John the Scythian, Leontius, Patricius, Sabinianus Magnus, Trocundes). Texts published in this volume are organized, as far as the sources permitted, according to the following scheme: descent, education, career (civil and military), picture in the sources, family, and military duties. Book published in coedition with Lodz University Press.

Inspired by Mary Shelley's conviction that reading is a socially significant communal activity, this book presents four essays on modern interactions with literary classics. Ancient tragedy, Shakespeare, and Frankenstein are read anew.

This book addresses questions about the lessons learned by Latin American countries and societies from the pandemic.

The book offers the reader a clear model of reflection on a work of theater art and on the consequences and achievements of contemporary theatrical autonomism.

The monograph outlines the directions of evolution in management sciences, focusing on changes emerging in the environment and emphasizing the processes of adaptation and resilience building.

In the midst of a pandemic, the Jagiellonian University¿s Institute of Sociology (in collaboration with its Interdisciplinary Center for Socio-Legal Analyses as well as the Polish Sociological Association) organized a series of Master Lectures. Presented virtually and open to the general public, these meetings with eminent Polish scholars addressed the most crucial and tenacious issues of our times. Active in their homeland as well as globally, the speakers are recognized specialists in sociology, jurisprudence, history, social work, and political science. The format encompassed a lecture followed by an online discussion with all interested attendees; the texts found herein comprise the fruits of those encounters. Disregarding geographic, temporal, and physical divides, this cyberagora created a space in which masters could find themselves amidst colleagues and students, sharing ideas, views, and experiences drawn from various academic disciplines and social milieux.

This book presents how literature was censored when submitted for evaluation to the main censorship office in Poland right after WWII.

This work focuses the portrayl of Jews in journals and gazettes published in French in the United Provinces of Netherlands, mostly by Huguenot refuges.

This book reconstructs the involvement of the Eastern Roman military elite in various matters of the state during the reigns of the emperors Theodosius II, Marcian, and Leo I.

A catalogue of works devoted to end-of-life themes. The volume consists of eleven articles arranged in four parts corresponding to a broad range of issues: law, ethics, philosophy, and cultural studies. The arrangement of the book is thus constructed around various perspectives upon which any reflection on death and dying must be based.

Manifestations of Male Image in the World¿s Cultures shows a single cultural phenomenon from a number of diverse perspectives. Methods used to analyze the titular male image range from Literary Studies and Cultural Studies to Media Studies.

The volume presents translations and editions of crucial mah¿mudr¿ texts of Tibetan Buddhism.

The Jagiellonian PET (J-PET) Collaboration developed a novel whole-body PET scanner based on plastic scintillators, which reduce the high cost of PET scanners. Lech Raczy¿ski presents new approaches to developing signal and image processing algorithms that take into account the specifications of the J-PET detector.

This book presents a critical study of five poetry collections by the Iraqi poet Hatif Janabi (H¿tif Jan¿b¿) published between 1998 and 2017. This study seeks to address essential aspects of Janabi¿s poetry, related to its ideational and philosophical contents, focusing on the major milestones of the poet¿s imaginative world.

This book examines the linguistic and pragmatic response to the taboo of death in Egypt. It demonstrates the significance of the role that religion plays in everyday social interactions of Egyptians as a regulator of human relations.

This book provides a cognitive approach to genericity in Norwegian based on three data sets analyzed with both qualitative and quantitive methods.

In the midst of the pandemic, the Jagiellonian University organized a series of lectures¿presented virtually and open to the general public¿in which eminent Polish scholars addressed the most crucial and tenacious issues of our times. This book presents the highlights of these lectures.

Places and Spaces of Crime in Popular Imagination ventures into the realms of genre literature to explore its rendering of locations and spaces. It brings a varied theoretical framework to the exploration of genres such as crime fiction, the spy novel, the academic mystery, crime comics, and crime film.

This book examines fundamental issues in microbial biotechnology, such as microorganism culturing and uses in industry and environmental protection. It details modern analytical techniques, known as omics, as well as digital techniques used to record adverse changes in the environment resulting from the harmful activity of bacteria and fungi.

This book is a collection of essays by students from nine European universities, who took part in a strategic partnership aiming to promote historical understanding of the crises plaguing Europe and the world today. They examine early modern theater, the works of Shakespeare in particular, and consider how it speaks to local and global issues.

This book offers innovative readings of the motif of crisis as explored by twentieth- and twenty-first-century novelists, spanning personal and identity crisis, interpersonal relationships and family ties, and threats on a global scale.

This book is a collection of papers written in honor of Professor El¿bieta Mäczak-Wohlfeld on the occasion of her seventieth birthday. The chapters have been written by linguists affiliated with different universities in Poland and abroad, all of whom wish to pay tribute to her outstanding contribution to language contact scholarship.

Resilience is founded primarily on positive psychology and health psychology, but the theoretical construct is also present in interdisciplinary research perspectives: medicine, pedagogy, and sociology. The authors of this monograph pay attention to the aspect of the relationship of the individual with their social context.

Contributors to this book examine Romantic writers¿ responses to their contemporaries, explore their dialogues with the culture of the past, and their interactions across the arts and sciences. They also scrutinize the Romantics¿ far-reaching influence, linking them with their predecessors and successors across Europe and America.

This book is a collection of six papers on selected issues in teaching Arabic as a foreign language, and the many methodological challenges connected with the specificity and complexity of the sociolinguistic situation in the Arab world.

During the years of the Polish People¿s Republic, Poles were cut off from the western world. This situation led to a period of great ingenuity in the realm of media. Coupling archival research with in-depth interviews, this book explores media behind the Iron Curtain, bringing to life the talent and determination of the PPR¿s new media pioneers.