Paganism in the Later Roman Empire and in the Byzantium, ed. by Maciej Salamon, Cracow 1991
Foreword
Lellia Cracco Ruggini, Quirinus and Peter: The Ideological Function of an Ancient Cult (III-IV Century)
Elzbieta Jastrzqbowska, Deux sarcophages d'enfants aux catacombes de Novatien a Rome
Maria Dzielska Ipazia e la sua cerchia intellettuale
Augustyn Eckmann, Pagan Religion in Roman Africa at the Turn of the 4th Century as Reflected in the Letters of St. Augustine
Kazimierz Ilski, Die Gesetzgebung Theodosius II gegen die Heiden
Helena Cichocka, Zosimus' Account of Christianity
Marek Wilczynski, Bemerkungen uber das Verhaltnis der Wandalenkonige zu den Ueberresten des Heiden-tums in nordafrikanischen Provinzen
Michael Whitby, John of Ephesus and the Pagans: Pagan Survivals in the Sixth Century
Use Rochow, Der Vorwurf des Heidentums als Mittel der innenpolitischen Polemik in Byzanz
Malgorzata Dqbrowska, Hellenism at the Court of Despots of Mistra in the First Half of the Fifteenth Century
Anna Rozycka Bryzek, Miraculous Flight on Clouds in Byzantine Art: Antique Imagery Transformed
In the Middle Ages Cracow the furthest east of the university towns of Europe, was the capital of a Kingdom, which, though closely bound with the Roman Catholic Church ruled vast terri?tories belonging to Eastern civilization. It thus proved to be a particularly convenient meeting point between western and east?ern Europe. From 1390 Glagolitic monks celebrated the Slavic liturgy at the Holy Cross Church in Clepardia (then near Cracow). In the 15th century three Gothic chapels in the Wawel Cathedral were decorated with gracco opere paintings commissioned by King Ladislas Jagiello and his successor, Casimir. Exactly 500 years ago, in 1491, at the print shop of Svebaldus Fiol in Cracow the first texts printed in the Cyrillic alphabet appeared: Oclocchos (Osmioglasnik) and Horologion (Casoslovcc). In the 16 century Greek was taught at the Jagiellonian University and among its students were even poets who tried their hand at Greek verse.<>
However, the tradition begun between the 15-16 centuries did not find any continuators. The University of the Jagicllons ? the royal dynasty that opened Poland to the Byzantino-Slavic culture ? did not develop as a centre of investigation of the cul?tural world of the New Rome. Not until towards the close of the 19 century, in the days of intense development of the modern Byzantine studies, was academic research in this realm initiated also in Cracow by Leon Sternbach, professor of Greek philology at the Jagiellonian University. Already in the period between the two world wars the University acquired an eminent expert in Byzantine and Slavic art history, Professor Voyslav Mole. He was entrusted with the organisation of a Department of Slavic Studies, of which he became the director. Moreover, the Polish Academy of Sciences and Letters had decided to begin research on early Byzantine literature. Consequently, preliminary studies were undertaken for a critical edition of the works of Gregory of Nazianzus?
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