Чудният свят на древните българи

Author(s): Rumen Daskalov / Language(s): Bulgarian

This is a book about the history and the origin of the Proto-Bulgarians and their way to the Balkans and it follows the concept for modern Proto-Bulgarian history. What can be called "modern" is the fact, that the sources on which this book is based are rather different from the well known and traditionally used Latin and Byzantine authors, but among the reviewed sources are Chinese, Indian, Arab, Armenian and other texts of different types ans genres. The author Rumen Daskalov is giving his own interpretations and the purpose of his analysis is to emphasize, summarize and promote the best accomplishments of the Bulgarian school of Proto-Bulgarian history.

A Szilágyság és a Wesselényi család (14–17. század)

Author(s): / Language(s): Hungarian

This volume contains the edited texts of the papers presented at the conference "Sălaj (Szilágy) Region and the Wesselényi Family in the 14–17th centuries" held between 7 and 8 September 2012 in Cluj (Kolozsvár). The essays deal with the estate system and the political and economic history of the medieval Sălaj (Szilágy) region (Middle Solnoc/Szolnok and Crasna/Kraszna counties), as well as with the history of the Wesselényi family archives and the early modern history of the Wesselényi family.

Negotiating Marian Apparitions. The Politics of Religion in Transcarpathian Ukraine

Author(s): Agnieszka Halemba / Language(s): English

This book concerns the politics of religion as expressed through apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Dzhublyk in Transcarpathian Ukraine. The analysis provides insights into the present position of Transcarpathia in regional, Ukraine-wide, and European struggles for identity and political belonging. The way in which the apparitions site has been conceived and managed raises questions concerning the fate of religious communities during and after socialism, the significance of national projects for religious organizations, and the politics of religious management in a situation in which local religious commitments are relatively strong and religious organizations are relatively weak. The analysis contributes to the ethnography and history of this particular region and of the post-socialist world in general. The changing status of the apparition site over the years allows investigation of the questions concerning authority, legitimacy, and power in religious organizations, especially in relation to management of religious experiences.

Historija monarhističke Jugoslavije : (1918-1941)

Author(s): Adnan Velagić / Language(s): Bosnian

Istorii venețiene

Author(s): Giovanni Giacomo Caroldo / Language(s): Romanian,Italian

Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Juden in der Čechoslovakischen Republik VII

Author(s): / Language(s): German

Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Juden in der Čechoslovakischen Republik VIII

Author(s): / Language(s): German

this eBook is a "Digsimile" (digital Facsimile)-Edition of the original volume published in 1929. The series of the annuals have been started by a group of young historians of the Jweish community of Bohemia who,, after the first World War and for the first time in history, got access to the archives in Prague and in Vienna.

NUMISMATIC COLLECTIONS OF THE MUSEUMS AT SANDANSKI (ancient Medius-Particopolis), PETRICH (ancient Heraclea Sintica/Strimonica) AND GOTSE DELCHEV (ancient Nikopolis ad Nestum)

Author(s): Svetoslava Filipova,Vladimir Petkov,Margarita Andonova,Sotir Ivanov,Ilya Prokopov,Vyacheslav Peshekhonov / Language(s): English

This is the sixth volume in series 'Coin Collections and Coin Hoards from Bulgaria' (CCCHBulg. VI), presenting the numismatic collections of state museums in the present-day Republic of Bulgaria. A comprehensive introduction provides background information on the southwestern area of Blagoevgrad district. In CCCHBulg. IV was presented the collection of the Regional Museum in Blagoevgrad. The collections of three municipal museums at the towns of Sandanski, Petrich and Gotse Delchev are presented here. These three cities are located in the valleys of the rivers Struma (anc. Strymon) and Mesta (anc. Nestos). Volume 6 provides a good picture of coin circulation along the valleys of Struma and Mesta within the territory of the Republic of Bulgaria. In this volume we have new information including the data of the museums collections, archeological excavations and documentation of collectors and local historians. This information is significant in volume. It is about coin finds and is presented with photos, tables and brief descriptions. The registered small denominations ranging from hemiobol to trihemiobol from the period of 6-5 in. BC are especially valuable. There is already enough information about the heavy denominations. So we add this new information and complete the picture for the minting and coin circulation of the earliest period in the researched region. We are also convinced that this new information on scattered coin hoards and single silver and bronze coins from the region will contribute to the study of local history. The number of coins presented in the catalog is 1200. The number of documented scattered coins in the region is 1131. The volume of the book is 283 pages. The format is A4.

Stjepan Totić : prilog kulturnoj historiji Zenice

Author(s): Ikbal Cogo / Language(s): Bosnian

Since the mid of 1950-ies a visual arts scene, specific in many ways, has flourised in the region of the city of Zenica. Firstly, the association of amateur artists was founded in 1956; afterwords the Visual Arts Association Zenica founded in 1974 whereas the Art Gallery started its activities within the City Museum towards the end of 1981. Visual arts scene of the second half of 20th century involved the artists of different sensibility and poetics of art; among them most famous ones were Ljubomir Perčinlić, Mirko Marić i Anto Kajinić. In addition to these artists we should also mention Tomislav Perazić, Muhamed Bajramović, Irfan Handukić, Miroslav Šetka, Jelenko Butina, Anto Čabraja, Mensur Begičević, Duško Abramušić, Jasmin Kukavica and others. Yet, the first visual artist with the academic education was Stjepan Totić, born in December 1927 in Zenica. He started his education at the Visual Arts Academy in Ljubljana in 1959 and graduated in 1963. Later, he finished his specialist studies at the same Academy in 1964/1965. Throughout his career Stjepan Totić worked in graphic and printing industry (he worked as the visual illustrator and later as the technical editor of the city periodical Naša Riječ). He made over 100 of different illustrations for the newspapers (the first ones appeared during 1956); he also gave the artistic form for about ten books (cover page illustartions), and he also wrote visual arts critiques and created a relatively small but very specific artistic collection. As he used to describe his own painting he was, primarily, a painter of figuration and portraits. Many visual arts critics wrote about his work, just to mention a few: Azra Begić, Branka Perišić, Meliha Husedžinović, Slobodan Blagojević. He was a member of the Visual Arts Association Zenica from 1974 until the beginning of the recent war. The artistic expression of Stjepan Totić was mostly influenced by the Slovenian painter Gabrijel Stupica. Totić had only one independent exhibition in Zenica in 1980 and it was accompanied by the catalogue. He withdrew from active artistic life of the city in the second half of 1980-ies. In Spring 1992, at the very beginning of the war activities, Stjepan Totić left for Innsbruk (Austria) where he lived for the rest of his life and died in 2009. He was married to Marija Helena Totić and had two sons, Josip and Krunoslav, and the daughter Margareta. His painting „Trapez“ used to be the permanent exhibit of the City Museum of Zenica from 1986 to 2007.

Светът на мегамитовете

Author(s): Plamen Tzvetkov / Language(s): Bulgarian

Myth and mythology may be defined as an attempt of the human being to put some order in the way of perceiving the surrounding world that appears as chaos. However, those who want to justify their absolute power by a simple and self-evident explanation can easily manipulate this longing for myths, the more so as myth is also a kind of fairy tale. On the other hand, a lie is never hundred percent untrue: it is a combination of obvious facts with half-truths and with sheer untruths.

Doba nasilja, doba straha: Vojnici-pljačkaši, seljaci-razbojnici i doseljenici-nasilnici u Istri XVII. i XVIII. stoljeća

Author(s): Miroslav Bertoša / Language(s): Croatian

The first part of the book shows the Uskok war (1615-1618), which was only seemingly a short historical bang. It was in fact an event whose consequences in the economic sphere were felt for decades, and in the mental structures of the consciousness of future generations - for centuries, even until today. Based on archival sources and published literature, the author shows how those tragic historical events between the 16th and 17th centuries left a deep and indestructible mark on the mentality of the Istrian man, a time when Croatian Venetian subjects (Benečani) and Croatian subjects of the Austrian Archduke (Kraljevci) identified with the feudal banners of their masters and under them attacked people of the same class and ethnicity. The second part deals with the world of the marginal - those people who have been disenfranchised by the European Ancien Régime and pushed to the margins of society. This world, once silenced, has become, at least in modern social historiography, one of the central contents of the study of the past. Bundles of court documents, which until recently the historian did not consider essential for interpreting the historical development of a society, became indispensable in the analysis of its structures. The "archives of silence" spoke about those marginalised who had been deprived of the right to speak by previous societies and their ideologized historiographies. A cruel world in which people become exiles and villains, where cruelty is born and where blood causes blood. The third part of this book, as far as the archival material allows, presents a meticulous reconstruction of the events related to the arrival of hajduk settlers in the Pula region and an analysis of the cause-and-effect relations that led to this events. Hajduk migration and the problems it caused are observed within the then historical situation in Istria, so some issues presented are not as closely related to the colonization of Hajduk, but directly or indirectly affected it. Miroslav Bertoša (1938) is a historian and long-term scientific advisor at the Institute of Historical and Social Sciences of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (HAZU), now a professor at the University of Juraj Dobrila in Pula. First Consul General of the Republic of Croatia in Trieste (1995-1998). Associate member of HAZU. He began publishing essays, articles and critiques in 1954, and since 1963 he has been researching modern Istrian history and Istrian anti-fascism, as well social, political, demographic and ethnic components of the Venetian part of Istria and the northern Adriatic area from the 16th to the 18th century. He is a connoisseur of contemporary historiography, and especially of movements in the avant-garde French Annales school. Alongside Robert Matijašić he was coeditor of the Istrian Encyclopedia (2005).

Istra, Jadran, Sredozemlje: Identiteti i imaginariji

Author(s): Miroslav Bertoša / Language(s): Croatian

Feuilletons, on this occasion arranged in several units, which the author published in the period from 1991 to 2002 in the Pula daily "Glas Istre". These feuilletons are a kind of reflection on the current - primarily Istrian - political everyday life, in which the author, looking at the world from the perspective of a historian, connects the present and the past. Or, as Bertoša himself describes them, they are: "improvised imaginations and fabrications of reality in confrontation with history, its facts and its interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary context."

Čitanje u karantinu

Author(s): Jill Lepore / Language(s): Bosnian

Kada je kuga stigla u London 1665. godine njegovi stanovnici izgubili su prisebnost. Savjetovali su se s astrolozima, šarlatanima, konsultovali Bibliju. Tražili su po svojim tijelima znakove bolesti: otekline, plikove, tamne mrlje. Preklinjali su za proročanstva, plaćali da im predviđaju budućnost, molili se bogu, zapomagali. Zatvarali su oči, pokrivali uši, ridali na ulicama, čitali uznemirujuće pamflete. Vlada je, želeći da suzbije paniku, pokušala „da spriječi štampanje takvih knjiga jer su prestravljivale narod“, zabilježio je Danijel Defou „Dnevniku kužne godine“, priči koju je napisao u isto vrijeme kada i „Potrebne mjere zaštite protiv kuge“, 1722. godine u kojoj su ljudi strahovali da bi bolest na nekom trgovačkom brodu mogla ponovo preći preko Lamanša, nakon što je proputovala od Bliskog istoka do Marseja. Defo se nadao da će njegove knjige biti korisne „i nama i potomcima, iako bismo mi trebali biti pošteđeni ove gorke čaše“. No ta je gorka čaša bila već izvađena iz vitrine.

Cemeteries and Dying in a Multi-religious and Multi-ethnic Village from the Danube Delta

Author(s): Sorin Gog / Language(s): English

This paper focuses on the way the new post-socialist cosmology is restructuring religion, shaping the religious mentalities of contemporary Romania. I am trying to investigate this by analyzing the ways the different local politics of ethnic and cultural identities remodel the perspectives on after-life and burial practices. My research aims at analyzing the symbolic architecture of the discourse that surrounds and penetrates the dead body. It focuses also on the way the cemetery is transformed into a micro-world that reflects the religious, ethnic and cultural struggles of the new post-socialist world. Along this line of reasoning I chose for research the multi-ethnic and multi-religious village of Sch., situated in the south-eastern part of Romania. Old-Orthodox Lipovenians (divided into two antagonistic religious communities, popovtsi and bezopopovtsi) and their eternal rivals, Orthodox Romanians, have to co-habit the village and share the local resources with the newly emerged community of Lipovenian-Romanian Adventists. What seems even harder to do is to share the after-life and cemetery space, where the borderlines between these four communities become even stronger. The instrumentalization of the symbolic architecture of after-life that penetrates the dead body and the fragmentation of the cemetery space that accompanied this process mirror the important transformations of the Romanian social system and the struggle to enact the different post-socialist politics of ethnic and cultural identities.

De la Kodoba la Codoba. Despre schimbarea identităţii etnice secundare într-o familie de muzicanţi romi dintr-un sat din Câmpia Transilvaniei.

Author(s): Csongor Könczei / Language(s): Romanian,Hungarian

The Magyarpalatka, located on Inner Mezőség, is one of the Gypsy musicians' centers in Mezőség. Many Gypsy music families lived and live here to date, the most famous being the Kodoba family. The present case study undertook to find out how the romungro family of the Reformed Religion in Romania, with the Hungarian-speaking, Reformed Religion, romanesque, in Hungarian, no longer (or hardly speaking) in the 20th Century, still a reformed, then Orthodox family, and tries to outline the broader social contexts of this process of identity change and to answer its causal relationships. Doing this by examining the extent to which the secondary identity change (including the change of the ethnic projection of the personal name) is related to the changing social, historical and political situations, to the extent that Magyarpalatka is continually depopulated from the Hungarian point of view, dominating the local Romanian population (not just numerical) and last but not least to some extent the economic aspects of the village vocational music industry. The research carried out at the same time makes it interesting that Gypsy musician of the Kodpal Gypsy family in Budapest is a Roma mother tongue, and its primary ethnic identity (for the time being) Roma, and that for the sake of its vocation has preserved the mediating role of local Hungarian, Romanian and Roma cultures as the traditional dance music of each ethnic group mediated and provided.

Milý příteli: Dopisy Bohuslava Martinů Zdeňku Zouharovi / Dear friend: Bohuslav Martinů´s Letters to Zdeněk Zouhar

Author(s): Zdeněk Zouhar,Vít Zouhar / Language(s): English,Czech

This unique collection of letters form the last ten years of Bohuslav Martinů's life addressed to Zdeněk Zouhar is a key testimony to Martinů's works, life and relationship between the composer and the interpreter of his works who premiered the cantata The Opening of the Springs, the cycles Three Part-Songs and Three Sacred Songs and initiated the origin of the primrose cycle. This edition captures Martinů's specific literary style in authentic form, without corrections, provides facsimiles of letters and juxtaposes the correspondence with the composer's letters to his family, firends, performers, as well as the reminiscences of his wife Charlotte. A more detailed picture of the composer's last years is emerging.

Innocenc Ladislav Červinka a jeho doba

Author(s): Miloš Hlava,Dalibor Kolbinger,Filip Velímský,Petra Rokoská,Jakub Halama,Martin Oliva,Stanislav Stuchlík,Peter Podolan,Jaromír Kovárník,Martin Čechura,Jana Bezáková,Kateřina Blažková,Zuzana Bláhová-Sklenářová,Jiří Havlice,Lucie Žáková,Jana Maříková-Kubková,František Adámek,Marcela Starcová,Petr Kostrhun,Karel Sklenář,Martin Neumann,Matúš Hudák,Dominik Repka,Mária Hudáková,Innocenc Ladislav Červinka / Language(s): Czech

On 13-15 September 2022, the History of Archaeology in the Czech Lands and Slovakia conference was held at the Department of History, Faculty of Arts, Palacký University in Olomouc (with the organizational contribution of the Moravian Museum in Brno). Nominally it was dedicated to two anniversaries connected with Moravian archaeology - 70 years since the death of Innocence Ladislav Červinka (1 February 1869 - 3 October 1952), the most important Moravian prehistorian of the first half of the 20th century, and 115 years since the first congress of the Moravian Archaeological Club in Litovel, an association that since the end of 1906 has brought together most Moravian prehistorians of Czech nationality under Červinka's presidency. It was attended by 40 interested persons from the Czech lands, Slovakia and Poland. The proceedings contain two dozen texts: 16 of the 25 papers that were presented at the conference, 3 additional papers that were announced in preliminary versions of the conference programme but ultimately did not appear due to various circumstances, and an edition of one of Červinka's manuscripts. The texts are structured into five thematic parts. The first one (Innocent Ladislav Červinka) with seven papers is devoted to the personality of Innocent Ladislav Červinka. The second part (Personalities) presents eight articles on European and regional personalities associated with archaeology. Two contributions of the third part (Societies) deal with the organizational structures of Czech and Moravian archaeology. The other two articles in Part Four (Finds and Sites) deal with the history of one remarkable find from Slovakia and one important Slovakian site.

Dear All (III): Dopisy Bohuslava Martinů rodině v Poličce z let 1934 a 1935 / Bohuslav Martinů´s Letters to his Family in Polička in 1934 and 1935

Author(s): Jaromír Synek,Gabriela Všetičková / Language(s): English,Czech

The monograph is the third volume of Bohuslav Martinů's correspondence with his family in Polička. It comprises 56 items of correspondence from 1934 and 1935. Although one-sided, as only letters sent by the composer were preserved, the correspondence contains Martinů's unique and authentic remarks on both his personal and his professional life, in which he shared his news, intentions, and opinions both with his closest relatives and, through them, to a broader circle of friends in Polička and Czechoslovakia. The Czech version provides a true diplomatic transcription of Martinů's manuscript letters and includes facsimiles of the correspondence. Comprehensive annotations give historical context. The monograph includes a parallel English translation.

Olomoučtí Němci 1918–1938

Author(s): Martin Hájek / Language(s): English,Czech

The book deals with selected aspects of the German minority in Olomouc between 1918 and 1938. It also deals with the demographic situation in the city with a special focus on national relations. The main part of the book is devoted to the Germans and Czech-German relations in municipal politics. In this part, the chronological development of municipal politics is monitored. The biographies of the various actors of German politics are briefly described. The club life is presented on the example of several German clubs. The book also presents German-language public press. Furthermore, it describes conflicts in education, development of German education system, school administration and system of German schools in the city. The activities of the German Public Library are briefly introduced.

Češi se ve světě neztratí, natož v Americe. Medailonky ze života českých vystěhovalců

Author(s): Miloslav Rechcígl / Language(s): Czech

In the book, the author presents a panorama of the fates of selected personalities whose roots are in the Czech lands and who achieved extraordinary success in the United States and whose activities significantly influenced the development and growth of the new homeland. It is a saga of ordinary and powerful people whose influence and importance often extended beyond the borders of the United States. However, a large number of the persons mentioned will certainly be completely unknown to the Czech readership, as their Czech origins were generally unknown. The book covers the entire period from the discovery of the New World to the beginning of the 21st century. The individual personalities were chosen solely according to the taste and interest of the author, and the selection was based on their importance, contribution and the interest of their lives, the only condition being that they were either born on Czech territory or were descendants of emigrants from Czech lands.