TY - JOUR AU - Wiewiorowski, Jacek PY - 2018/12/12 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Kolorystyka szczegółów geograficznych w Notitia dignitatum pars orientis według rękopisów Oxoniensis Canonicianus misc. 378 i monacensis latinus 10291 JF - Vox Patrum JA - VoxP VL - 70 IS - 0 SE - Articles DO - 10.31743/vp.3214 UR - https://czasopisma.kul.pl/index.php/vp/article/view/3214 SP - 335-394 AB - <p>The text analyses the reality of the colours used in the topographical allu­sions of the insignia of late Roman officials, known from the <em>Notitia dignitatum in partibus Orientis </em>from the turn of the 5<sup>th </sup>century, preserved in <em>Oxoniensis Cano­nicianus Misc. 378 </em>and <em>Monacensis Latinus 10291 </em>- Not. Dig. Or. 28, 29, 31, 34, 36, 38, 39, 37. The author links the accuracy of colours used by the illustrators of the insignia with the intention of the <em>Notitia dignitatum </em>to give the emperor and other members of late Roman elite a relatively coherent picture of the geographi­cally remote regions of the Eastern Roman Empire. He subsequently relates it to the functioning of human brain as a pattern recognizer shared universally by hu­man beings, despite that colour perception among Humans is strongly affected by culture and calling for the inclusion of data collected by evolutionary psychology and other evolutionary research in historical studies.</p> ER -