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Obituary – Professor Mieczysław Tanty (* 19 July 1928 - † 22 April 2015)This obituary outlines the professional career and work of the outstanding Polish historian and Slavic studies scholar, Professor Mieczysław Tanty (19.07.1928–22.04.2015). Wspomnienie pośmiertne – prof. zw. dr hab. Mieczysław Tanty (* 19 lipca 1928 – † 22 kwietnia 2015)Tekst wspomnienia przedstawia drogę naukową i dorobek wybitnego...
Memory of the borders: The demarcation productivity of Vodici in the Mijaci - inhabited Macedonian villages of Bituše and EhloecThe main aim of this article is to present ways of expressing the inner (religious) and external (ethnic) social boundaries of Mijaks, as they appear during the celebration of the festival of Epiphany (Revelation of Lord / Baptism of Christ in the Jordan / Vodici) in the...
An important contribution to the study of South Slavic palaeotypesA review of the new monograph on history of the Bulgarian language: Ivan Petrov, Od inkunabułów do pierwszych gramatyk. Konteksty rozwoju bułgarskiego języka literackiego (koniec XV – początek XVII wieku), Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Łódź 2015. Ważny wkład w badania nad paleotypią południowosłowiańskąRecenzja nowej monografii...
Games of a subject: A sketch of the (early) works of Mladen StilinovićThe article concerns the conceptualization of the subject in the works of the contemporary Croatian visual artist Mladen Stilinović. The object of analysis are most of all works (collages, texts) from the 1970s and early 1980s, when the artist formulated the basis for his creative philosophy and at the same time determined the directions...
Theory in actionA review of the new monograph in anthropology of religion: Kamila Baraniecka-Olszewska, Ukrzyżowani. Współczesne misteria męki Pańskiej w Polsce, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika, Toruń 2013. Teoria w działaniuRecenzja nowej monografii z zakresu antropologii religii: Kamila Baraniecka-Olszewska, Ukrzyżowani. Współczesne misteria męki Pańskiej w Polsce, Toruń: Wydawnictwo...
Vanga complex in Rupite as a religious sanctuaryThe article addresses the Vanga complex that has been developed since 1994 in a Bulgarian village called Rupite. Due to its unique spatial arrangement as well as the ambiguity of the religious practises engaged at the complex, it at the same time effortlessly serves as an Orthodox, an esoteric and a folk sanctuary. The fact that its creators were influenced...
Borders within borders: A new regionalism in contemporary Croatian literatureThe article is an attempt at a synthetic presentation of Croatian literature researchers’ reflection about regionalism in the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first century. The author observes that there is a tendency to see Croatian literature as one that produces two different models of texts in terms of poetics...
An Event – between horror and fairy taleAn Event (Događaj, 1969) is one of the few Croatian horror movies. In comparison to other examples of the use of the horror genre in Croatian cinema, the film is distinguished by its aesthetic sophistication and skilful use of fairy-tale elements. The director Vatroslav Mimica evokes the mood of horror primarily through a suitably chosen space (the movie takes...
The Bible in the culture of Polish-Lithuanian Rus’ in the sixteenth centuryBeginning in the mid-fourteenth century, the East Slavic citizens of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (“Ruthenians,” the “Rutheni”) took active part in a process of multicultural integration. The increase of interests in the biblical text that took place in Europe in that period was not without influence on Ruthenians –...
On two Slavonic translations of the Renaissance drama Abraham’s sacrificeThe paper’s main aim is to present two South-Slavonic translations of the Renaissance Greek drama Abraham’s sacrifice (I Thysía toú Avraám) by Vincenzo Cornaro; the first one was made by the Serbian man of letters Vikentije Rakić (1750–1818) at the end of the eighteenth century, the second one – by Andrey Pop-Doynov Robovski...
Biblical component of Old Church Slavonic text – the example of the Old Serbian inscriptionsThe paper deals with the problem of the presence of biblical material in Old Church Slavonic texts. While this question has indeed already been broadly and repeatedly discussed by palaeo-Slavists, the developments in medieval studies and the achievements in textological and editorial fields have once again...
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