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Sources of the Bulgari Chronicle

Le fonti della cronaca Bulgari

Author(s): Penka Danova / Language(s): Italian / Issue: 2/2015

Keywords: Foreign Sources for Balkan History; 15th – 18th c.; Narratives; Italian Historiography

“Sources of the Bulgari Chronicle” is the first attempt all written sourcesof an anonymous chronicle to be revealed. This chronicle has come down to us intwo manuscripts in Italian (one of them is entitled “Un manoscritto (18° secolo)che riguarda la storia dei conti Bulgari”) found in the archive of Bulgari family ofCorfu. It was published bilingually (in Italian and in Greek) in 2010 in Greece byStefanos Konstantinos Voulgaris, a descendant of the Bulgari family. The Chroniclehas evoked great interest in Bulgaria because this is the first comprehensive presentationof the Bulgarian medieval history in a separate book that has reached ourtimes. The revealing of the Bulgari Chronicle’s sources is an important task becauseit will provide information about the nationality of its unknown author, about hisancestry, about the time of the Chronicle’s composition. All authors and titles referredto in the Chronicle are presented in tables, which indicate that there are twomain sources of information. They are the works of the Jesuits Louis Maimbourgand Antonio Foresti, due to which the history of the Bulgarian medieval rulers, representedas forefathers of the Bulgari family of Corfu, has been compiled. As a resultof the analysis done, it is concluded that the author of the Bulgari Chronicle was anItalian, a devoted Catholic, who followed the principles of the historical writing inthe time of the Counter-Reformation. As to the time of the Chronicle’s composition,the possible terminus post quem is 1693, determined by the chronological order ofthe printing of the volumes of Antonio Foresti’s “Mappamondo Istorico”; the terminusante quem is 1698, when the Venetian Senate issued a decree conferring Antonio Bulgari and his successors the title of count.

Persons and Events in the Sarandapor Chronicle

Persons and Events in the Sarandapor Chronicle

Author(s): Denitsa Petrova / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2015

Keywords: Manuscript; Short Chronicle; Ottoman Balkan Possessions; Ottoman Expansion; Balkan History

The National Museum of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, holds Lyturgion (Missal) No E 543 from the beginning of the 16th c. which was probably written in the St. Joachim of Osogovo (Sarandapor) Monastery near Kriva Palanka, in today’s Republic of Macedonia. It contains the short Sarandapor Chronicle which follows the world history from the Creation to 1512. The laconic notes mention some important moments of the Ottoman expansion and the subsequent period. The identity of the persons and the events included in the chronicle offer valuable historical information. The Sarandapor Chronicle is a copy of a Serbian work, but the history described in it is not just Serbian – it is pan-Balkan. The monks who compiled the text perceived the persons and events included in it as part of a common history.

Countess Maria Mamucca della Torre Kálnoky and her Family at the Cross-roads of Empires

La Comtesse Maria Mamucca della Torre Kálnoky et sa famille aux carrefours des empires

Author(s): Violeta Barbu / Language(s): French / Issue: 2/2015

Keywords: Cross-Cultural History; Allogenous Elites Nettoworks; XVIIth – XVIIIth Century; Transylvania;Romanian Principalities;

Using as a vantage point the case study of a Levantine family of diplomats of Genovese descent, Mamucca della Torre, the research follows up the intricate trails of physical mobility and sociological ambiguity of a number of transimperial subjects from Italy, which took early roots in the Genovese colonies of the Levant and in the Balkans (Istria). Subjects of the Ottoman Porte, diplomats in the service of Western powers, they settled eventually in Constantinople, Bucharest, Iași, Miklosvar and Kronnstadt (Transilvania), Viennna and Trieste. For three generations, members of the Mamucca della Torre family crossed back and forth the borders of the Ottoman and Habsburg empires, trading loyalties and privileges according to their own interests and assuming multiple functions specific to pre-modern societies: diplomats, interpreters, civil servants, military commanders. Based mainly on their secret diplomatic correspondence and on their private letters, the inquiry looked for answers to the issue of the status of the transimperial subjects against the overall process of reshuffling the ethnic, linguistic, cultural, religious, social and collective identities in Eastern Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries. The reconstruction of such dynamic and heterogeneous networks of cultural exchange and transfer by the means of cross-cultural history has found in individual biographies (Marc’Antonio Mamucca della Torre and his daughter countess Maria) or in family portraits (Mamucca della Torre, Kálnoky, Ferrati, Neniul) a valuable pool of customs and practices in-between the public and the private, or the East and the West.

The Catholic Reforms on the Balkans and the Bosnian Franciscans, 16th – 17th Centuries

The Catholic Reforms on the Balkans and the Bosnian Franciscans, 16th – 17th Centuries

Author(s): Elmira Vasileva / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2015

Keywords: Tridentine Reforms; Ottoman Balkans; Bosnian Franciscans

The post-Tridentine period was a time of reorganization and renovation of the Catholic Church and these processes provoked reforms in the Catholic ecclesiastic structures in the Ottoman Balkans as well. A significant factor for the penetration of the renovation ideas among the local Catholics was the Franciscan Province Bosna Argentina. But the implementation of the Tridentine reforms caused some disturbances of the traditional Franciscans’ work and resulted in many controversies. Nevertheless, the post-Tridentine reform program, contributed to the revitalization of the Catholic activities in the territories under the Ottomans.

Women in the Protestant Missions and Modernisation in the Balkans

Women in the Protestant Missions and Modernisation in the Balkans

Author(s): Nikolay Aretov / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2015

Keywords: Protestant missions; Modernization; Balkans;

Women in the protestant missions and modernisation in the Balkans.

Irina Ognyanova, The Catholic Church and the Ustaša Regime in Croatia, 1941 – 1945. Sofia, Paradigma, 2014, 412 p. ISBN: 978‑954‑326‑216‑8

Ирина Огнянова, Католическата църква и усташкият режим в Хърватия (1941 – 1945). София, Парадигма, 2014, 412 с. ISBN: 978‑954‑326‑216‑8

Author(s): Nikolay Kochankov / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2015

Keywords: Catholic Church; Ustaša regime

The author has set a goal to examine all the aspects of the relationships between the Catholic Church and the Ustaša regime.

Irina Grigorova, Raïa Zaïmova (ed.), Autobiography of Gr. S. Parlitcheff (1830 – 1892). Istanbul, Les Editions Isis 2012, 84 р. ISBN: 978‑975‑428‑472‑0

Irina Grigorova, Raia Zaimova (ed.), Autobiographie de Gr. S. Parlitcheff (1830 – 1892). Istanbul, Les Editions Isis 2012, 84 р. ISBN: 978‑975‑428‑472‑0

Author(s): Rafał Zarębski / Language(s): French / Issue: 2/2015

Keywords: Autobiography; Gr. S. Parlitcheff;

Autobiography of Gr. S. Parlitcheff (1830 – 1892).

Thousand years from the death of the great Bulgarian tsar Samuil (997-1014).

Tausendstes Todesjahr des grossen bulgarischen Zaren Samuil (997 – 1014).

Author(s): Georgi N. Nikolov / Language(s): German / Issue: 2/2015

Keywords: Bulgarian tsar Samuil; Conference

Thousand years from the death of the great Bulgarian tsar Samuil (997-1014) conference report.

Periodicals 2013

Научна периодика 2013 г.

Author(s): Emiliya Voleva / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 27/2013

Content of the main Bulgarian scientific journals for the current year in linguistics, literature, history, folklore, ethnography, archeology and art studies

Periodicals 2014

Периодика 2014 г.

Author(s): Emiliya Voleva / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 28/2014

Content of the main Bulgarian scientific journals for the current year in linguistics, literature, history, folklore, ethnography, archeology and art studies

Periodicals 2011

Научна периодика 2011 г.

Author(s): Emiliya Voleva / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 23/2011

Content of the main Bulgarian scientific journals for the current year in linguistics, literature, history, folklore, ethnography, archaeology and art studies

THE HISTORIOGRAPHICAL RETHINKING OF THE BULGARIAN SCHISM (1872) THROUGH THE POSTSECULAR PERSPECTIVE – REASONS AND CONSEQUENCES

THE HISTORIOGRAPHICAL RETHINKING OF THE BULGARIAN SCHISM (1872) THROUGH THE POSTSECULAR PERSPECTIVE – REASONS AND CONSEQUENCES

Author(s): Tsvetomir Todorov / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2016

Keywords: Eastern Orthodox Church; Desecularisation; Modernity; Bulgaria; Schism;

The Bulgarian schism from 1872 is considered the focal point in the synthesis between secularization and nationalization of the religious life of the Orthodox Christians in the modernizing 19th century Balkans. The Bulgarian separation from the Patriarchate of Constantinople was not a precedent in the context of the epoch. Quite similar were the administrative church disunions, common for most of the emerging nationalistic movements in Eastern Europe. But it was only the Bulgarian case in which a whole nation was proclaimed schismatic and excommunicated from the Orthodox ecumene. What is more, it was for the promulgation of the autocephaly of the Bulgarian Exarchate that the nationalism within the Church (ethnophyletism) was declared heresy. That exclusiveness of the Bulgarian case makes it a rather convenient resource for historical, theological and sociological arguments in the ongoing scientific debates, concerning the modern relationships between church, state and society and especially for the explanation of some conflict crossroads within the modern Orthodox world. Apart from the academic discourse, in the past two decades the Bulgarian schism from 1872 is actively being used, both by local and foreign thinkers, as a ground for predefinition of the popular grand narratives in the Bulgarian history. To the intensity and the reasons for that rethinking of the historical discourse, which could be quite radical in some cases, is devoted the following research.

Songs and Borders in the Living Culture of the Gagauz in Eastern Thrace in the Early Twentieth Century

Песни и граници във всекидневната култура на гагаузите от Източна Тракия в началото на ХХ век

Author(s): Galin Georgiev,Dinka Angelova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 2/2016

Keywords: Gagauzs; Eastern Thrace; folklore; identity; bilingualism

The article is dedicated to the folklore singing of the Gagauzs in Eastern Thrace. The authors analyze primarily archival and published material from the early twentieth century war period and the following displacement of large groups of populations, which raises the question of their cultural traditions and specifics. The songs are used as a source allowing the outlining of a number of specific characteristics of the ethnic and cultural identity of the Gagauzs. Special attention is paid to bilingualism in some records and its ritual functions. The article is reminiscent of Adela Peeva’s film “ Whose is this song?”. Undoubtedly it will again show the development and the fate of the spiritual heritage from the Ottoman period bequeathed to the later national societies and countries in the Balkans, where the heritage (which was previously common) is “assigne” and began to be felt “our” and “native” or, in other cases, is strongly rejected. The aim of the article, however, is to show that this initial space was not always so common and open and that the relationships in it (respectively in the culture in general) depended on local developments, different situations and participants. At least in terms of knowledge about the various cultures and traditions on the Balkans, together with the question “Whose is this song?” goes the question “Whose song is the best?”. That is, except the origin of the songs, which in many cases is common, it is also important to understand it, to know how it is valorized and constantly acknowledged.

Paradoxical Bulgarian Reception of the Bible during the National Revival

Парадоксалната българска рецепция на Библията през епохата на Възраждането

Author(s): Nikolay Aretov / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 16/2016

Keywords: Bible; reception; translation; Bulgarian National Revival;

This paper is focused on the difficulties that Bulgarian reception of the Bible encountered in nineteenth century – the lack of older canonical translations and the opposition of the Ecumenical Patriarchate against new translations, which were associated with Protestantism. Some instances that illustrate the ideas of the Bulgarians from that period are presented. One of them is from Two Brothers (Dvama bratya; 1888–1889) by Iliya Blaskov – a semi-documental novel dealing with the fates of the author’s family. The author concludes that the image of the Holy Scripture that even pious teachers had at that time was vague and closer to folk-lore than to modern biblical notions.

On Two Slavonic Translations of the Renaissance Drama Abraham’s Sacrifice

O dwóch słowiańskich przekładach dialogu Ofiara Abrahama

Author(s): Małgorzata Skowronek / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 16/2016

Keywords: Serbian and Bulgarian drama translations; nineteenth-century editions; Abraham’s sacrifice;

The 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 (1801–1858), a Bulgarian priest, teacher and activist for autocephaly of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church. The different reception and spread of the two translation was probably due to their various cultural contexts and literary value. Rakić’s translation was widely disseminated in both printed editions and manuscript copies, two of which are described in detail in the present article.

Reviews: Historiography

Rezensionen: Historiographie

Author(s): Oliver Jens Schmitt / Language(s): German / Issue: 71/2012

Greek-Bulgarian Relations in the Age of National Identity Formation. Hgg. Paschalis M. Kitromilides / Anna Tabaki. Athens: Institute of Neohellenic Research, National Hellenic Research Foundation 2010. 338 S., ISBN 978-960-9538-00-8, € 28,–

Tatar Images in the Bulgarian National Narrative in the 19th Century

Татарски образи в българския национален наратив през XIX век

Author(s): Veneta Yankova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 4/2016

Keywords: (Crimean) Tatars; Bulgarian national narrative

The article discusses the morphology of Otherness in the Bulgarian meta-narrative in regards to the empirical case connected to the concept of the Tatars in the minds of Bulgarians in the late 18th and in the 19th century. Тhe text analyses the Tatar topoi in the Bulgarian folk songs, in historiography and in 19th century Bulgarian literature. The Bulgarian national narrative enriches the morphology of Otherness by incorporating heterogeneous Tatar images as variants of stereotypical notions of the abductor. Some mythologems associated with archaic layers of human culture and forming a folklore-mythological matrix of understanding foreignness are recreated. According to the the data from the Bulgarian folk songs, there is no independent Tatar subject, the Tatar topoi are incorporated secondarily into the song motifs, connected with abduction. These are heterogeneous elements, whose primary objective is to maintain a “sense of history”. Such mythologized images were present in written texts in the late 18th and in 19th century thus supporting the Bulgarian “great narrative” that legitimized the preliminary design for the creation of the nation. Since the middle of the 19th century due to the empirical experience of direct communication Tatar emigrants have gradually been discovered in their natural human form while their activities have left durable traces in the local memory and heritage of the region.

A Comparative Study of the Perception of Railways among Serbian and Bulgarian Intellectuals, 1860s – 1870s

A Comparative Study of the Perception of Railways among Serbian and Bulgarian Intellectuals, 1860s – 1870s

Author(s): Momir Samardžić / Language(s): English / Issue: 3-4/2015

Keywords: Serbia; Bulgaria; Balkan railways; 19th century; economic thought;

Our article analyses different perspectives on railway construction on the Balkans among Serbian and Bulgarian intellectuals, politicians, economists, leaders of national liberation movements. Our main thesis is that different discourses on economic development and railway construction were largely determined by the different dynamics of social development in Serbia and among Bulgarians, and their process of national liberation and that various authors approached the issue of economic development, concept of free trade or protectionism and other issues through the prism of their own formal education and/or experience gained by the analysis of their community within the Ottoman Empire, faced with the rising pressure from foreign factors due to the slow incorporation of the Balkans into the modern capitalist world system.

The Figure of St. Clement of Ohrid in the Bulgarian and Macedonian literatures at the Time of the National Revival

Фигурата на cв. Климент Охридски в българската и в македонската книж­нина от епохата на Възраждането

Author(s): Ewelina Drzewiecka / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 2/2017

Keywords: St. Clement of Ohrid; Bulgarian literature; Macedonian literature; National Revival; Bulgarian studies; Macedonian studies

The paper raises the question of the functionalization of the figure of St. Clement of Ohrid in modern culture comparing his representation in the Bulgarian and Macedonian traditions. The focus is on various texts of the Bulgarian and Macedonian National Revivals (perceived as historiographical constructs). The points of reference are two “grand narratives” inscribed into the Bulgarian and Macedonian scientific discourses. The aim is to show the context for the modern creating of the “beginning of the nation”. The paper presents both the 19th century image of the most famous Cyrillo-Methodian disciple and a hermeneutic deconstruction of its usage.

On the History of Prose Translated at the Time of the Bulgarian Revival

Vue sur l’histoire de la prose traduite à l’époque de la Renaissance bulgare

Author(s): Liljana Minkova / Language(s): French / Issue: 4/1993