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booklet published by the "Jugoslav Association for the League of Nations". Content: Language - Religion - Traditions - POlitical Aspects - Current State of the Art - Conclusion
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This book contains the official documents gathered by Stelian Tanase and related to the activity of Christian Rakovski in Romania. Rakovski took major part in the Communism movement in the beginning of the century. After that, in 1917, he went to Russia, where he was killed by Stalin.
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Published in 1924 by HRV. ŠTAMPARSKI ZAVOD D.D., ZAGREB. Translated from Czech to Croatian with permission of the author by Dr. Milan Prelog
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Tekstovi zagrebačkih političkih listova iz razdoblja 1848.-1850. predstavljaju jedno od najvažnijih izvora za proučavanje tadašnjih političkih, vojnih, društvenih, privrednih i drugih zbivanja i procesa u Banskoj Hrvatskoj. U njima su dolazila do izražaja težnje, interesi i ciljevi hrvatskih javnih djelatnika, od pojedinaca, preko pojedinih interesnih grupa do hrvatskih državnih ustanova. Tadašnji listovi, jedini u sjevernoj Hrvatskoj, svjedoče o određenom stupnju razvitka političkog javnog mnijenja i moderne političke kulture u hrvatskom društvu u kojem su upravo tada, u proljeće 1848., ukinuti kmetski odnosi i provedenih izbori za prvi nestaleški Sabor. Novinski članci predstavljaju, doduše, sami po sebi, objavljen materijal, ali mogućnosti njegovog korištenje za historičare vrlo je ograničena, jer samo na jednom mjestu - u Nacionalnoj i sveučilišnoj knjižnici u Zagrebu - postoji cjelovito sačuvana zbirka svih tadašnjih listova. Iz tih razloga postoji, vjerujem, potreba da se donese izbor članaka iz tadašnjih listova, koji bi trebali pružiti, po mogućnosti, vjerodostojnu sliku kako o tadašnjim prilikama u Hrvatskoj, ali i o ljudima, koji su uređivali zagrebačke listove, odnosno surađivali u njima. Jedini dosadašnji izbor s tekstovima iz zagrebačkog tiska 1848.-1850. (Vaso Bogdanov, Hrvatska ljevica u godinama revolucije 1848-49 u svijetlu naše četrdesetosmaške štampe, Zagreb 1949) ne zadovoljava niti osnovne kriterije stručnog priređivanja građe, zbog mijenjanja pravopisa, fragmentarnog donošenja tekstova i to skoro isključivo iz Slavenskog Juga, s ciljem dokazivanja određenih interpretacija priređivača i izostavljanja tekstova iz većine listova (većim dijelom iz Novina dalmatinsko-hervatsko-slavonskih, a potpuno iz Agramer Zeitunga, Sudslawische Zeitunga i Jugoslavenskih novina).
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The monograph analyzes the basic thematic entities, the demographic and financial data, as well as the topography of the estates described in 12 genuine (dated from 980 to 1279) and 2 falsified (presumably dating from 1049 and 1142 but actually composed in about 1583—1586 and after 1267) acts, which are presently kept in the archive of the Bulgarian Athonite monastery of Zographou. An attempt is made at illustrating most of the affairs discussed in Zographou archival charters with maps adequate in precision to the data provided by the documents. The philological and historical analysis of the acts is supported by a new, critical edition of the original texts, which is based on photographs available in the Central State Archive of Bulgaria.
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The book entitled “The Kamieniecki family, bearers of the Pilawa coat of arms. The history of the career and advancement of the Polish nobility until 1535 / 1536” is devoted to the Kamieniecki family – Polish magnates of the late medieval period and the early modern period. The author presents the path of their career, the journey to the top both in the political as well as economic sense. The progenitor of the Kamieniecki family was Klemens of Moskorzew, bearer of the Pilawa coat of arms (late 14th century). He was descended from petty nobility whose influence was small at that time. However, owing to the work in the chancery of Spytek of Melsztyn, whose support was courted by King Władysław Jagiełło, they built their own faction and paved the way to a career in the royal chancery. As a deputy chancellor of the treasury and a staunch supporter of the Polish ruler he received many grants. He received the Dobczyce demesne and Kamieniec, which soon became the heart of the estate of the descendants of Moskorzewski and who hence came to call themselves Kamieniecki, as a token of the appreciation for the defence of Wilno against army of the Teutonic Knights. However, the son of Klemens, Marcin, followed a different path. He distanced himself from the Jagiellonians and, as a consequence of his refusal to participate in the Turkish expedition, the Dobczyce demesne was confiscated from him. It was only thanks to the intercession of high-ranking noblemen (probably Piotr Szafraniec, his father-in-law) and thanks to the fondness felt by Jagiełło toward Marcin’s father that he was allowed to keep Kamieniec. Marcin Kamieniecki’s policy brought about a profound crisis of the family which it managed to overcome (and return to the glory of the Moskorzewski period) only after almost fifty years. This difficult path was began by Marcin’s brother, Piotr. He returned to the thing owing to which the Kamieniecki built their position, that is to the collaboration with the ruling dynasty. He participated in the confederation of Spytek of Melsztyn, and above all he supported Władysław Warneńczyk during his stay in Hungary and two expeditions against Turkey. Piotr’s efforts resulted in the reclamation of Dobczyce. This was a token of the appreciation for his assistance in Hungary. Piotr’s brother, Henryk, also contributed to the restoration of the position of the Kamieniecki family but he devoted himself to the reconstruction of the estate which declined during Marcin’s time. Despite the fact that his engagement in politics was marginal, it was even in these isolated cases that he supported the Jagiellonians. As a result of this he received the Sanok castellany from the king. Therefore Piotr and Henryk laid the foundation on which the position of the family could be built by the sons of Henryk, and the latter were successful at it. It is the last generation of the Kamieniecki family which is presented in this book – the brothers: Mikołaj, Jan, Marcin, Henryk – achieved the greatest success by not only making reference to the glory that the family enjoyed during the time of Klemens Moskorzewski but by surpassing these achievements. Mikołaj Kamieniecki was promoted to the rank of one of the most trusted people of the subsequent rulers: Jan Olbracht, Aleksander, Zygmunt Stary. In 1503, for the first time in Polish history, he was nominated a crown hetman. He became famous by engaging in numerous skirmishes with Moldovans and especially by the successful expeditions to Pokucie in the years 1506 and 1509. Mikołaj’s brothers followed in his footsteps and made a career in the military. Jan became a captain of horse, whereas Marcin held the office of a vicecampiductor, which corresponded with the role of a field marshal. Henryk, who also made a military career, perished during the Battle of Wiśniowiec in 1494. The Kamieniecki family played a significant role in the foreign policy of the Polish state, especially in the policy associated with Hungary and Moldavia. The latter policy was engaged especially by the “last” generation of the Kamieniecki family, which was to a great extent a result of the offices that they held, that is the offices of the “field” marshal and the grand crown hetman, and the political situation of the country at that time. One should also emphasise the significant engagement of Klemens of Moskorzew in the issues associated with the Teutonic Knights. He made a name for himself not only by his defence of Wilno against the army of the Teutonic Knights who supported Witold but also by his participation in the negotiations with the Order of the Teutonic Knights and the signing of a peace treaty in Raciążek. The development of the estate of the Kamieniecki family was strictly associated with the status of the family and during the course of a hundred years this status oscillated in a sinusoidal manner. For whereas Klemens of Moskorzew, owing to his work in the chancery and the merit that he earned during his stay in Wilno, managed to build up a considerable estate consisting of the Dobczyce demesne, the Kamieniec demesne and a number of houses in Kraków, his son Marcin, who entered the path of conflict with the monarch, betrayed him almost completely. Only the subsequent generations made an effort to rebuild the lost estates. A special role in the expansion of the estates by the “last” generation of the Kamieniecki family was played by the awards which were presented to them for valour in combat and the merit demonstrated on the fields of battle. As Marcin Kamieniecki held the office of a “field” marshal, and Jan was captain of horse of the permanent defence, these grants concentrated especially in Ruthenia. Therefore the new centre of the estate was established near Załoźce in Podolia and it was there that the economic interest of the family was concentrated throughout the course of the subsequent centuries. However, the royal grants in that region were not the only reason for such a turn of events. Due to the constant borrowing of money from the Boner family, a well-known family of bankers, the debt that the Kamieniecki incurred from this family forced Marcin first to sell Książ Wielki and then to hand over the Kamieniec castle. Thus the Kamieniecki lost the heart of their estate. Therefore just as the acquisition of Kamieniec by Moskorzewski became a symbolic “beginning” of the Kamieniecki family, this economic incident – the loss of the castle – in a way closes and highlights this chapter of the history of the Kamieniecki which was described in the present dissertation.
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This monograph offers the first of its kind historic and functional research of drama as a constructive, stabilizing and identity-interpreting ideological and artistic structure. To that end, the analyses, apart from the literary and cultural ones, set forth anthropological and social-psychological perspectives, as well, and that explains the multi-spectrum overview of Bulgarian identity during the second half of XIX century. The analysis of identity as an idea, character, sign and the inter-text approach used in the research allow for a large portion of the dramaturgical pieces to be included in new semantic paradigms, to outline unexpected parts of their world of meanings. The text contains various, non-traditional statements about drama as a possibility to interpret the ideas of own and foreign of the Bulgarian national revival and initiates in scientific requisition some little known and researched dramatic works dating from the age of the Bulgarian national revival.Proceeding from the understanding that identity is created in the complex relations between person and society and in inter-societal relations, as well, the monograph analyses examine the complex interaction of identities that the dramaturgical works expose and search for the collective image of the Bulgarian. The proverbial drama and comedy works stand alongside with dramaturgical texts with arguable artistic value, as all of them represent equally effective attempts to offer and form the signs of Bulgarian identity. The literary and cultural interpretation of the artistic texts is intertwined with the new spiritual, social, economic and ideological process during the crucial for Bulgarian society XIX century.The story about the process that Bulgarian national revival dramaturgy uses to mold the idea of Bulgarian is given in chronological order and is divided into four main parts that encompasses the historical past of Bulgarian people, the struggle for religious independence and national stereotypes provoked by it, as well as the complex relations between “own” and “foreign” that are inevitably made clear during periods critical for the community. The attention and analysis in Chapter One – “Dramatic Narratives of the Past: Mythologization and Symbolism”, is directed towards various elements that illustrate the creation of the paradigm of the heroic and the dishonorable. The narrative of the Bulgarian follows the major milestones in the development of community awareness. The heroic characters of Bulgarian national revival drama have their symbolic uses – out-of-context, the characters are perceived as models of the group/national virtues, as carriers of the “national spirit”. An attempt was made to summarize the main characters that come to the figures of the Ruler, the Warlord, the Prophet/Preacher, the Traitor and the Enemy. Bulgarian national revival works create or co-create three of the emblematic national symbols – Rayna Knyaginya, Hadji Dimitar and the first Bulgarian national anthem “Shumi Maritsa”. Chapter Two “Identity and National Symbols” tells of their rising in the light of cultural analysis. The next part “Return to the Present: From Symbolism to Reality” examines the identity-religion relations. The common image of the Greek clergy recreates the national stereotype of the “foreign” – Greek, firmly molded during the struggle for independent Bulgarian church.The final chapter – “Identities: Reality and Desiderations” comments on the Bulgarian national revival projections of modernity. Comedies and social drama pieces expose the confusing otherness. Through those, the drama of choice is followed that originates from the crisis of society readjustment. This final part reveals the Bulgarian fears and longings of Europe. The problematic cores that analyze the “own – foreign” relations are named here. Dramaturgical comments are set forth in the wide thematic field that shapes the questions “Who must we be” and “Who must we not be”. The answer to the former is more difficult to find and that is why it is no accident that Bulgarian national revival drama pieces do not succeed in creating a memorable positive image of the Bulgarian. One of the general contradictions of national identity lies in discovering the balance between tradition and modernity. In the ability to suppress the longings for the foreign and to master the fears of it.Dramaturgy looks for the ideal examples of the Bulgarian in the folklore or in more distant history. The building of identity is a dynamic process that assumes uncertain values in the 1870s. A constant in the molding of the ideas of the Bulgarian is the realized attitude toward it as a ground for pride. The assertion of Bulgarian honor and dignity is now valued as the most positive behavioral model.Bulgarian national revival dramaturgy is one of the most active participants in building the foundation of the Bulgarian national pantheon. The second half of XIX century, when this genre arises and is developed in our literature, is the most dynamic time of the national identity debate. Dramaturgy speaks and implies the significance of the Bulgarian, fills it with dignified content and attempts to predict the threats to national identity.
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The outstanding Hungarian humanist, Jenő Zsoldos has worked as the director of the Jewish Secondary School for Girls in Budapest. Three years after the Holocaust he has edited the publication “1848-49 in the Life of the Hungarian Jews” on the occasion of the Centenary of the Hungarian revolution 1948-1949. This revised edition is published on the occasion of the 150years anniversary of the revolution
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An encounter between a warring knight and the world of learning could seem a paradox. It is nonetheless related with the Twelfth-Century Renaissance, an essential intellectual movement for western history. Knights not only fought in battles, but also moved in sophisticated courts. Knights were interested in Latin classics and reading, and writing poetry. Supportive of “jongleurs” and minstrels, they enjoyed literary conversations with clerics who would attempt to reform their behaviour, which was often brutal. These lettered warriors, while improving their culture, learned to repress their own violence and were initiated to courtesy: selective language, measured gestures, elegance in dress, and manners at the table. Their association with women, who were often learned, became more gallant. A revolution of thought occurred among lay elites who, in contact with clergy, began to use their weapons for common welfare. This new conduct was a tangible sign of Medievalist society's leap forward towards modernity. This monograph contains a great deal of detailed information about the attitudes towards learning and written culture among members of the nobility in different parts of Europe in the Middle Ages.
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This multiauthored monograph puts forward an interdisciplinary approach to the chivalric code, developed in the Middle Ages, whose broad tradition has expanded since those times up to the 21st century and is cultivated in various areas of life, both in Europe and the rest of the world. The authors gathered in this work belong to numerous disciplines, including history, literary studies, and cultural studies; moreover, among the texts included, one might find even the papers contributed by an archaeologist and a sport historian. By all means does it prove that the issue tackled in this monograph touches upon an important cultural phenomenon, which – regardless of the influences and “borrowings” exchanged between the differing civilisations – lays the foundations for the development of any of the human communities. The work is recommended not only to scholars, but also to a broader audience of people interested in the chivalric culture with is traditions and shifts.
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this eBook is a "Digsimile" (digital Facsimile)-Edition of the original volume published in 1938. 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.
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The work entitled „Literary capitalism. The images of economic abstracts in the Polish literature of the second half of the 19th century” offers an analysis of capitalism based on literary historical sources. The three initial chapters Focus on theoretical aspects of the entire project. In the first chapter, I have systematized various traditions of the economy of literature developing mainly in the English- and German-speaking countries. Here, I distinguish two ways of talking about economy in literature, which stem from Marxist literaturę studies on the analysis of ideology and class divisions in culture, and the research on the relation between economy and a literary form. Chapter Two discusses the Marxist theory adapted to the studies on the economy of literature. Here, I refer to the transition from traditional Marxism to New Marx Reading (neue Marx-Lektüre). I validate the thesis that economic categories require a discursive legitimization to sustain their being in force and the validity of real abstracts. The discursive legitimization and its criticism may have their place in economy, but also in literature and in journalistic writing. This chapter also deals with the problem of using literary texts as “sources” for historical studies, including the social and economic history, and not merely the history of discourse or mentality. The point of departure is the analysis of the classical formulations of the methodology of historiography with a view to arrive at an extended theory of the source, which can be derived from the works of Walter Benjamin. The third chapter concerns the problems of the history of the second half of the 19th century. How can the tradition of the economy of literaturę be employed for the studies on Polish literary capitalism? Definitely, not by means of using foreign research as ready-made patterns that can be directly transferred to Polish literature. Therefore, I trace the problems of the complex duration of capitalism in various works of the historians of literature, ideas, society, and economy. I analyse the 19th-century field of power and its ideology. Moreover, I refer to the discourse of underdevelopment and marginality. In this chapter, I also justify the choice of chronological frames of the present book. The starting point is constituted by the middle of the century – the events of Galician Slaughter and the Spring of Nations are seen as a common experience which anticipated modern social conflicts. I have demarcated the year 1900 as the end-point, thereby renouncing the analysis of the texts that approximated the revolution of 1905 which redefined the political divisions of the Polish society. Between these dates, many important events and economic processes occurred, including the industrialization supported by customs policy and the global agrarian crisis, both of which deeply changed the economic and social structure of Polish lands. The analysis of various chronological patterns allows for the identification of civilizational, economic, social, and cultural processes that occurred at an uneven pace. The complexity of both local and global chronologies renders it impossible to form a great uniform narration on the extended duration of the Polish underdevelopment or marginality, compelling instead to trace the noncontinuous character of the peripheral location. Chapter Four presents the problems of agrarian, middle-class, and industrial capitalists. The basic interpretational category constitutes “the subject of capitalist desire”. Capitalism requires of individuals to become the personifications of commodity, money, and abstraction. Literature perfectly describes the dialectal adventures of individuals embroiled in capitalist desires, as well as the oppositions between various positions that were available for contemporary capitalists, such as ascetic, merchant, speculator, industrialist, or rentier. In the fifth chapter, I discuss subordinate groups: peasants, workmen, urban mob and proletariat. Here I research the ways of discursive enslaving of individuals, as well as the chances of emancipation and class struggle. The most important process that was taking place in the second half of the 19th century as regards the structure of subordinate groups is connected with the rejection of the feudal forced labour based on physical violence and replacing it with apparent voluntary contracts between the labourer and the capitalist, yet practically based on anonymous economic violence that affects the proletarians devoid not only of capital goods, but also of their livelihood. The final three chapters have been devoted to the interpretation of the problems of economy of the most important novels of the period under investigation: „The Doll” by Bolesław Prus, „The Promised Land” by Władysław Reymont, and „Homeless People” by Stefan Żeromski. These novels present three kinds of psychopathology of capitalist personification which stem from the inability of continuing the parents’ traditions, either due to social advancement, or social degradation. The literature of this epoch frequently portrays spectacular falls of fathers who can no longer impose their rules on their sons – they are too weak, because economic changes deprived them of their high social status. Their place, the place of the father who insists on respecting the rules, is being occupied by the capital, which obliges the sons deprived of their fathers to become the subjects of capitalist desire and to reject the tradition of their ancestry.
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I started writing this book with only one single purpose – What is the meaning of Gender? On this question are written thousands of books, but till present day there is no conventional answer.Nature has created many ways for reproduction of the species. Some of them have disappeared along with the species, some still exist today. But in practice, species that reproduce bisexually have conquered the planet with man as its chief representative. And not only this. According to Darwin, the existence of the sexes, male and female, is so important that it leads to “sexual selection,” which dominates even over the “natural selection”:
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How the species became extinct is easy to explain; how they appeared, however, is difficult. Were they created only once? Personally I cannot imagine the mechanism for creating new species, except in terms of the primary creation of the Meccano set, as understood by François Jacob, as a result of zero probability:The living world is, rather, like a sort of Meccano set. Equally, I cannot imagine the creation of inanimate matter except the primary creation of the Big Bang, again because of zero probability (the principle of the conservation of matter). And species that have managed to slip out of natural selection (man), they exist and will exist! Will today’s ten million animal and plant species have the same fate?The ordinary questions of the scientists interested in this field are lying in the search for common causes and patterns that may lead to a general theory of extinction. The most frequent arguments are related either to bad genes or to bad luck. Whatever were the causes, it is logic to give an idea on each of the five major mass extinctions in the fossil record. That is the purpose of the book – to identify and explain life and death, origin and extinction. But the main purpose is to explain the mass extinctions with one hypothesis and one common pattern, one common impact.
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Područje Banije određeno je rijekama Savom, Unom i Kupom na sjeveru, istoku i jugu te granicom prema Bosni i Hercegovini na jugozapadu, dok je zapadna granica prema Kordunu sve do današnjih dana neodređena. Baniju na sjeveru rijeka Kupa dijeli od Pokuplja, na istoku je rijeka Sava dijeli od Posavine, a na jugu rijeka Una od Bosanske krajine. Granica Banije prema Kordunu mijenjala se tijekom stoljeća. Na jednoj karti iz 1806. godine granica Banije i Korduna bila je označena kao granica slunjske i glinske regimente, a ta je međa išla od Banske Selnice na rijeci Kupi, zapadno od Sjeničaka i Slavskog Polja, preko vrha Petrove gore do granice s Osmanlijskim Carstvom. Ista međa je ucrtana i na geološkoj karti I. banske regimente. Prema takvoj podjeli, koju i neki političari i znanstvenici smatraju i danas pravilnom, i područje nekadašanje općine Vrginmost, a danas općina Lasinja, Gvozd i Topusko, pripadalo bi području Banije. Osim toga, i istočni dio današnjeg područja grada Karlovca (Sjeničak) smatrao bi se Banijom. Ipak, prema podjelama koje su ustaljene nakon Drugog svjetskog rata, a prema kojima kotar Vrginmost pripada karlovačkom području, Kordun je proširio svoje granice na račun Banije sve do desetak kilometara zapadno od Gline, pa je banijskom kraju preostalo područje današnje Gline, Petrinje, Dvora, Sunje, Kostajnice, Dubice, Kukuruzara, Majura, južnog dijela gradskog područja Siska (Komarevo) i zapadnog dijela općine Jasenovac (sela Uštica, Višnjica i Tanac koja se nalaze između Une i Save u takozvanom "Trokutu").
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We hope our volume will be seen as the first step towards an overarching summarized work on history and archaeology of South-Eastern Europe in 13th—14th cc. in view of the now available sources. It contains articles prepared by nineteen researchers from Russia, Ukraine, Moldova and Kazakhstan on history and archaeology of Byzantium, the Golden Horde and the Genoese Gazaria in 13th—15th cc. and their successors in 16th—18th cc.The present volume is an attempt to address three major objectives of the historical study of Byzantium, the Genoese Gazaria and the Golden Horde. Number one: a vast territorial coverage of the articles in the historical-topographic block enables us to find specific functions of the Golden Horde as such and its local provinces, while putting them in a broad historiographic context. The second objective addressed in this volume is about showing new approaches to historical subjects and sources on history of Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages. The third objective is to demonstrate how different types of sources can be integrated into research of extensive historical problems.We hope that the suggested format and topics of this volume will be useful to our colleagues and enjoy their approval. We also hope to make it a serial publication.
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Bardzo dobrze się stało, że dr Adriana Merta-Staszczak zajęła się złożonym problemem powojennych zabytkowych nieruchomości na Dolnym Śląsku, bo choć poświęcono mu już sporo publikacji syntetyzujących i opracowań poszczególnych aspektów lub pojedynczych zabytków, to brak było dotąd sumarycznego monograficznego przeglądu całości zagadnienia, z jego uwarunkowaniami historyczno-politycznymi, ideologicznymi, psychospołecznymi, administracyjno-prawnymi i ekonomicznymi - które w dużej mierze zapewnia prezentowana książka. […] Na podkreślenie zasługuje bogata podstawa źródłowa monografii. Autorka sięgnęła po zasoby niemal wszystkich polskich archiwów, w których znajdują się dokumenty związane z podjętym problemem, a także archiwalia znajdujące się w zasobach muzeów, uczelni i organizacji społecznych.z recenzji dr. hab. Stefana Bednarka, prof. UWrNiewątpliwie mocną stroną książki jest zastosowana przez Autorkę metoda badawcza. Interdyscyplinarny charakter pracy z pogranicza ekonomii, historii i historii sztuki zadecydował o zaadaptowaniu narzędzi metodologicznych dostarczanych przez wszystkie te dyscypliny naukowe.z recenzji dr. hab. Jędrzeja Chumińskiego, prof. UE we Wrocławiu
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published by: J. H.W.DIETZ NACHFOLGER, BERLIN //When Friedrich FG Kleinwächter says in his far too little read, very informative book “The Downfall of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy” that Europe knew more about Japan and India than about the South Slavic countries of the Habsburg Empire, the South-Slavic world still today is not in the bright midday light of being known. // In Germany, too, there is often an almost encyclopedic ignorance about the southern Slavs, although they come across our tribal territory on a broad front and one day they will also be our border neighbors in the state; Gone are the days when a Jakob Grimm, an Alexander v. Humboldt, a Leopold v. Ranke were eager to gain an understanding of South Slavic matters. // This regrettable fact - more regrettable for us than for the southern Slavs - justifies the summary and publication of treatises which, whether they have been in "Society" or "Wage", Viennese, workers' Newspaper ”,“ Frankfurter Zeitung ”or“ Prager Presse ”have appeared, are based on knowledge of the subject, strive to penetrate the subject matter and are carried by the will to objectivity. (the author)
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The present monograph presents studies by Slavia Burlieva on monuments of the Cyrillo-Methodian tradition, interpreted as phenomena of identity – confessional, political, ethnic, cultural. They are written in different periods of her research activity and are published in various Bulgarian and foreign editions in Bulgarian, English, Italian, Russian and German. Collecting them in a monographic corps will enable them to better present to a wider audience the specific research field of the author, which she enriched with new discoveries and interpretations. Here are researches on newly discovered Cyrillomethodian sources or their transcripts – such as, for example, the unknown poem written in the inner field of the otherwise well-known Latin Casaurian chronicle, the second edition of the List of the Archbishops of Ohrid, the Old Roman Catholic services for St. Cyril and Methodius, the inventory records and letters on the relics of the Holy Brothers. The introduction sums up various texts in the perspective of their occurrence on the occasion of one or another event of the Cyrillo-Methodian mission or its later reflection – from the Late Middle Ages to the Modern Age. They are published with accompanying comments, chronologically organized in the Cyrillo-Methodiana Graeca et Latina section. This section is followed by the Varia section, which includes research, most generally related to mediaeval issues, which provoked the author’s interest in her Cyrillo-Methodist studies.
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In order to make the thorough mendacity of Putin's rhetoric about "Ukraine as a State of Neo-Nazis" fully evident, CEEOL is offering the Ukrainian Jewish journal ”Ї“ as the strongest possible proof of a habit of "modern Ukrainian and world intellectual thought". The NGO "Ї", an independent cultural organization founded in the late 1980's in L'viv, focuses on modern Ukrainian and world intellectual thought. It offers periodic forums for discussion of issues concerning Ukraine and, among others, Europe, Russia, post-Byzantium, the Muslim Renaissance. It analyzes the current situation in order to develop future socio-political strategies. The organization also publishes "Ї", a quarterly journal dealing with European and Ukrainian issues in politics, philosophy, and culture. It also examines the relationship of Ukrainians with Russians, Poles, Austrians, and Jews and places Ukraine in a modern geopolitical sphere that can further Ukraine's identity as a modern state.
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