О верницима и преверницима (Две цртице из XIV века)
On Believers and Forbelivers (Two 14th Century Notes)

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents two brief prosopographic notes on two ordinary people in the 14th century Byzantium, and their relation to faith. First, there is a Scythian woman, or Kuman, whose name we do not know, whose life resembles an adventure novel, and who is referred to by the Byzantine historian Nikephoros Gregoras. Although coming from a Turkic tribe, she wholeheartedly embraced Christianity, and came to Byzantium through very unusual circumstances. Quite different from her was a certain Antony, mentioned in a February 1374 Constantinople Patriarchate document. He was not very firm in his faith, changing it on several occasions. Antony was first an Orthodox Christian, then a Muslim, and later converted to Catholicism. Finally, as the circle was closed, he returned to Orthodox Christianity.

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