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Life-giving springs and The Mother of God Zhivonosen Istochnik / Zoodochos Pege / Balikliyska. Byzantine-Greek-Ottoman intercultural influence and its aftereffects in iconography, religious writings and ritual practices in the region of PlovdivThis article looks at veneration of healing springs (ayazma) in Orthodox Christian churches and monasteries in the region of Plovdiv and Asenovgrad (Bulgaria)...
Partenij Pavlovič – the “wandering monk” as a networkerPartenij Pavlovič was a Bulgarian monk (ca. 1700–1760) who spent his entire active life in the service of the Serbian Orthodox Churches of Pec and Karlovci. He used the intellectual network created by the ecclesiastical structures and to some extent also created a personal network that helped him spread the anti-Muslim and anti-Catholic ideas...
How to read Hasan or the resurrection of a contingent apparition of real readersA fragment from the novel Death and the Dervish, the famous monologue by Hasan about the Bosniak identity, to which this review is dedicated, is exceptionally appropriate for an interpretative manipulation. We have approached it from two different methodological starting points. The first reading (the inner approach) attempts...
The immured woman, Odysseus and Bulgarian Easter: Toncho Zhechev and the quest for a conservative mythThis article reflects on Bulgarian Easter, or Bulgarian Passions, a 1975 book by the Bulgarian humanist Toncho Zhechev, once regarded in Communist Bulgaria as a call for a return to traditional values. Zhechev’s quasi-conservative ideological turn (which in formal terms ran counter to the precepts...
Biology vs. sociology and the progress of the national body (a theoretical debate in Bulgarian society in the inter-war period)This text discusses the debate pro and contra the possibilities of biological sociology, the new scientific trend, with respect to its possible benefit for the progress of the nation – a priority issue in the inter-war period. The author presents the arguments of Bulgarian...
Theoretical and practical benefits of late standardization (the example of Macedonian language)The author underlines the importance of the Macedonian language for the research of spontaneous linguistic evolution in the multiethnic and multilingual territories with the language of the administration foreign to the local linguistic communities. She analyzes both causes and results of the Macedonian...
Mathieu Laensberg’s Prophecys in a nineteenth-century Bulgarian fragment (a sketch on fortune-telling books and prophetic literature in the Balkans)The article presents comments on and text edition of two folios of the so-called Bulgarian fragment of Mathieu Laensberg’s prophecy, written in the Bulgarian language of the first thirty years of the nineteenth century. The article does not focus on the...
Empress of Bulgarians, augusta and basilissa – Maria-Irene Lekapene and the transfer of the idea of imperial feminine in the Medieval BulgariaMaria Lekapene was a granddaughter of Byzantine Emperor Romanos I Lekapenos. In 927 she married Peter I of Bulgaria. Her marriage, ceremoniously entered into in Constantinople, aimed to strengthen the newly signed Byzantine-Bulgarian peace treaty. Historians...
The formation of the idea of the nation in the Slovene lands – an outline of selected problemsThe paper summarises the most significant phases of formation of the Slovenian nation from the sixteenth century to the present. Special attention is paid to the analysis of historical sources and selected scientific studies. Kształtowanie się idei narodu na ziemiach słoweńskich – zarys wybranych problemów...
Slavs in Theophylact Simocatta’s „Universal History” – a Byzantine axiological perspectiveThe Universal History of Theophylact Simocatta constitutes a very important source for the history of the Later Roman Empire, especially within the context of appearance of the Avars and the Slavs in the Balkans. This article confirms the high reliability and great value of Theophylact’ s narrative concerning...
Transformations of the category of confession in Macedonian collective consciousness in nineteenth and twentieth centuriesA discussion is given in this article – in the chronological order – of the various textual proofs of the existence on the Macedonian territory (from the beginning of the nineteenth century) of the confessional consciousness, in its religious-theoretical, political-historical and...
A spectre is haunting Europe: The Korčula Summer School as a freethinking island and space for dialogue The Korčula Summer School and the journal Praxis associated with it occupy an important place on the map of Yugoslav intellectual history in the nineteen-sixties and seventies. Philosophers, sociologists and representatives of other professions considered the issues of Socialism, revolution, the...
The twisting paths of the sufis – the Turkic-Balkan motifs in the sufi ‘tariqa’ concept in selected examples of contemporary literary works The first part of this paper summarises how Sufi brotherhoods formed in the Balkans with some references to their Turkic-Ottoman sources. Islamic mystical movements constituted part of the Islamisation initiatives in the territories occupied by the Ottoman Empire:...
The Spread of Neilos Kabasilas’s Anti-Latin Treaties in Russian Manuscripts in the 17th Century In the 17th century, Neilos Kabasilas’s anti-Latin works, along with Gregory Palamas’s Contro Becco, were considerably widespread in Russia. The first copy was made for Arseniĭ Sukhanov in the 1630s, another copy – supplemented with several polemical texts – was then prepared for the Patriarchal Library...
A Synecdoche of Croatian LiteratureA review of the five-volume work comprising an anthology of texts along with critical commentaries: Cvelferica, panonizam, pismo književnosti, znanosti i kulture (Cvelferica, Panonism, text of literature, education, and culture), volumes 1–5, Društvo hrvatskih književnika, Cvelferija–Osijek 2015. Synekdocha literatury chorwackiej Recenzja pięciotomowego dzieła, na...
“In the name of Cyril and Methodius”: The Cyrillo-Methodian idea and the socialist propagandaThe paper aims to describe and analyze the dynamics of transformation undergone by the symbolism of the Cyrillo-Methodian oeuvre in the socialist propaganda in Bulgaria. The work and lives of the two saints represent the different national paradigms and state priorities before and after 1944. In the years...
The evolution and functions of the idea of the nation in Serbia from the twilight of eighteenth centuryThis article represents an attempt to describe the functionalisation of the notion of the nation – as an ideological category and theoretical factor which justifies the integrative mechanics in Serbian sociocultural life. It constitutes an elementary point of reference for the historical, philosophical,...
The Enlightenment in Croatia – the change of paradigm?: From impoverished monomyth to liberated polymyth The paper is an attempt at a synthetic presentation of the discourse that took place in twentieth-century literary studies on the idea of the Enlightenment in Croatia. The author recognizes the model of conservative and Catholic Enlightenment centered on the North of the country, which is constructed...
Adam Mickiewicz’s Paris lectures and the idea of universal religionThe first half of nineteenth century in France brings the development of several currents of thought that are trying to find a solution to the problems affecting society in this period (pauperisation, crisis of traditional values, oppressed nations). Catholic traditionalists, Illuminati, utopian socialists and humanitarians often formulate...
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