29 articles in this issue
Anna Kotlowska
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 a... see more
Paulina Dominik
Pour la réforme de la justice ottomane: Count Leon Walerian Ostroróg (1867–1932) and his activities in the final decades of the Ottoman Empire Following the final partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1795 the Ottoman Empire became one of the... see more
Raymond Detrez
Partenij Pavlovic – the “wandering monk” as a networkerPartenij Pavlovic 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... see more
Grazyna Szwat-Gylybowa
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 Bulgar... see more
Sylwia Nowak-Bajcar
Cultural aspects of Vuk Karadžic’s family life in the light of his correspondenceThe source material for the study, which is the correspondence between Anna and Vuk Karadžic, spouses coming from different cultures, was used to highlight the issues of legi... see more
Tomasz Szymanski
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 (pa... see more
Ewa Wróblewska-Trochimiuk
A spectre is haunting Europe: The Korcula Summer School as a freethinking island and space for dialogue The Korcula Summer School and the journal Praxis associated with it occupy an important place on the map of Yugoslav intellectual history in the ninete... see more
Zofia A. Brzozowska
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... see more
Jasmina Šuler-Galos
„Return to Christian thought and life”: the objectives and methods of Janez Krek's Christian-social movementThe turn of the twentieth century in Slovenian culture was marked by a movement, later dubbed “political Catholicism.” The cultural and economic na... see more
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“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 Bu... see more
Jan Stradomski
Series of eschatological exegeses in prophet Daniel’s visions in the context of the doctrinal dispute of Eastern Christianity and Judaism (about the manuscript BN 12245) The Bible’s Book of Daniel, along with commentaries of St. Hippolytus of Rome, belong... see more
Marco Scarpa
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 cop... see more
Magdalena Lubanska
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 ... see more
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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 Math... see more
Agnieszka Aysen Kaim
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 T... see more
Marzanna Kuczynska
Conflict and war as the “whip of God” in the literature of the Bulgarian Middle AgesThe article focuses on the motif of war as a tool for the realization of God’s plans for people and the sign of His reward, and above all the penalty for human misdeeds, s... see more
Ewelina Drzewiecka
Bulgarian Reformation? On hybridization of ideas in the process of modernization of cultureThe paper raises the question of the Bulgarian notion of Reformation both as a particular historical event and its local reinterpretations and adaptations. The focu... see more
Dorota Gil
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 ... see more
Lech Miodynski
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... see more
Damian Kubik
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 t... see more
Anna Boguska
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 Enlighte... see more
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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 ... see more
Ida Ciesielska
Bulgarian Interwar Interpreters of FreudThis article aims at analysing views of the so-called “orthodox” Bulgarian psychoanalysts. The discussed subject-matter is used to infer a set of intellectual trends that influenced the formation of the interwar per... see more
Vedad Spahic
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 ... see more
Zuzanna Topolinska
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 territo... see more
On the Slavic sources of the dualist narrationsA review of the new anthology Sredniowieczne herezje dualistyczne na Balkanach. Zródla slowianskie. (2015). (Minczew, G., Skowronek, M. & Wolski, J. M. Ed.). Lódz: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Lódzkiego. The volu... see more
Krystyna Barbara Pieniazek-Markovic
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 ... see more
Artur Jocz
The Judas gnosis A review of the new monograph in Slavic cultural studies: Ewelina Drzewiecka, Herezja Judasza w kulturze (po)nowoczesnej. Studium przypadku, Kraków: Universitas, 2016. Gnoza Judasza Recenzja nowej monografii z zakresu kulturoznawstwa... see more