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The author presents a recent discussion on global art history, posing some specific questions, whether and in what way it could be created, what is the role of art historical post-colonial studies in such a project, as well as the so called comparative art history, especially dealing with a history of East European art. However, in the concluding remarks he suggests an alternative approach to the issue, called the alter-globalist art history, which at the same time would be a critique of the global Western cultural hegemony (though, different than post-colonial perspective), and the activist contribution to the constitution of contemporary political condition of the world, called the global agoraphilia.
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The author traces the analogy and intersections between holocaust and genocide studies and the ecocriticism, between the event of the genocide and ecocide (the devastation of the natural environment). Based on the discussion of books and articles by G. Agamben, J. Derrida, B. Latour the author offers a thesis on the shaping of a new concept of nonanthropocentric subjectivity, empathic subject or a subject existing in the pluriversum. The second part of the article is devoted to the analysis of literary (E. Kuryluk, W.G. Sebald) and visual (J. Morgensterns Ambulans) representations, pointing to the role of non-human factors in the post-catastrophic landscape.
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Until the beginning of the 16th century the viniculture of the Small Carpathian region recorded an increasing tendency and an all-round development in various aspects. In this period of a relatively calm development of viniculture and wine market, new institutions and legal rules came to existence, which fundamentally influenced the expansion of viniculture in the following centuries. In the submitted work we attempt to clarify the organization and administration of viniculture in the town of Saint George in the middle of the 17th century when the viniculture and wine market of the town was at its peak. The basic principles of the organization and administration of viniculture in the town of Saint George have been recorded in the vineyard regulation. The oldest preserved vineyard regulation of Saint George dates back to 1650. We attempted to clarify its origin, purpose and point out the content of particular paragraphs which we consider as the legal rules of the so-called vineyard law. The vineyard law was institutionally represented by the Saint George´s vineyard bureau. It was a council with certain characteristics of autonomy. However, according to our findings, there has never developed a completely independent council in Saint George. The development of organization and administration of viniculture in the town of Saint George was naturally connected with the expansion of the town´s city council which we will also briefly mention to help understand the issue better. The normative community in the town of Saint George were the townsmen or more precisely the city council governed by a portreeve and an alderman. The townsmen tried to protect their vineyards, to ensure the highest possible economic yield and moreover to legalize organizational, administrative, economical, but also neighbourhood and social relations related to viniculture and vineyards in their town and vineyard community.
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This article is based on documents of Russian archives and considers the history of the relationship between the Soviet type regime and the Roman Catholic Church in Poland during the 1940’s and 1950’s. The article explores particular actions of authorities that were aimed at excluding the Church from political and educational spheres of life; temporary retreat of the Episcopate for the sake of maintenance the connections between Church and believers. Special attention is given to the influence of Church on the evolution and development of socio-political crisis and the victory of reformers in 1956.
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The author of the article, based on the onomastic analysis of ancient Greek, Roman and Celtic myths, consisting of taxonomically different implications of the etymological and genetic unity of the Indo-European languages, continues to justify the hypothesis (that was raised at first in his book “Karuo – Iberian secret”) about the existence and interaction of two (Western and of Eastern) ancient Iberian cultures which became the forerunner of the European cultural conglomerate formation.
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The peculiarities of cooperatives as the organizations with a non-profit nature are emphasized. The core of national tax policy of the Russian Empire, regarding credit, loan and savings associations, in the late XIXth-early XXth century is examined. The important role of tax benefits for establishing and developing the national credit-cooperative movement.
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This article describes the evolution of scientific views of foreign and domestic scientists to study the essence of innovation, environment and leverage to accelerate their development, dissemination and implementation.
More...(2016). Политическа история на съвременна България. Сборник документи. Том І (1944 – 1947). Съставител: проф. д.и.н. Любомир Огнянов. София: „Архивите говорят“, том 67. Държавна агенция „Архиви“, издател, 559 с., ISBN: 978-619-7070-13-2
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Recognized as an independent state in 1962, Algeria became the subject of interest on the part of the Superpowers, pursuing the expansion of their spheres of influence, characteristic of the Cold War. Bulgaria, however, enjoyed special privileges thanks to the supply of weapons it took the risk to carry out on behalf of the Soviet bloc countries during the Algerian War. As a result of the earned, well-respected attitude, Sofia was engaged in the realization of its economic interests, and the Bulgarian activity was officially motivated by the concern for the Algerian integration into the socialist camp. Being until recently France’s colony, the young Maghreb state was sensitive to any external pressure, and Bulgaria was been forced to make political compromises so as not to harm the business ties between the two countries.
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This study aims to shed light on ideas and notions of wealth and poverty, shared by the non-Muslim peasants of the region of Serres, as reflected in the Chronicle of the Greek priest Synadinos. He speaks in his manuscript of himself and of what happened in the lives of the people of the town of Serres and of those of the surrounding villages in the first half of the 17th century. The people that Synadinos describes carried fragments of the real life, of the ideas of wealth and poverty, of getting rich and being impoverished in the everyday life of medieval people. The study reveals that the Christian moral code, which people should respect in their daily behaviour, as well as their personal qualities and choices in life, played a major role in the formation of these ideas. And finally, one should mention the role of the Empire policy with its decisions and actions and their impact on the Ottoman subjects.
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In article forms of participation of the population of the Penza province in the Russian-Turkish war of 1877–1878 are considered. During military operations in the region reception and treatment of wounded soldiers which were organized with assistance of local authorities by the Penza management of Society of care about wounded and sick soldiers were carried out. In the province the temporary hospital has been created, in hospitals special extra beds, etc. were put. At hospital the senior doctor V.D. Vladimirov has opened 6-week courses on training of nurses. As a rule, the medical personnel worked gratuitously. Natives of the Penza province actively endowed means in fund of hospital, in favor of wounded soldiers and to their families, etc. Practically all estates of the province, including peasants did charity work. Not only money, but also warm clothes, a blanket, etc. endowed. The church has also made the contribution to collecting small donations. Money in favor of families of soldiers arrived, mainly, from the organizations (The Penza City Council, the Insarsky zemstvo, etc.). Professional actors and amateur theater-goers put charitable performances, carried out literary musicales, etc. from which means went for support of wounded, slav brothers, etc. The newspaper “Penzenskiye Gubernskiye Vedomosti” published numerous materials about the Russian-Turkish war, awakening a patriotic spirit of local population. Natives took part in the voluntary movement, battled at the front (the 121st infantry Penza regiment, the 40th infantry division, the 64th reserve infantry battalion, the 160th infantry Abkhazian regiment, etc.).
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International expositions having been started in Europe in the middle of the nineteenth century have shifted to the continent of America from the end of this century. All countries, including Ottoman Empire, have been invited to the expositions held in Chicago for the 400th anniversary of discovery of America by Christopher Columbus. Ottoman Empire defined as the sick man of the Europe has spread on effort to be able to be a member of the developing world by presenting a modern Ottoman look in Chicago Exposition. Turkish participators having shown the Ottoman culture and products in Chicago with their mosque, fountain, and hippodrome have been rewarded with forty five medals by Chicago Exposition Commission. Ottoman administrators have exhibited the technological development of the country with the products manufactured in Tersane-i Amire and Telegraph Surveillance Factory in the Chicago Exposition. The fleet which have been locked in the Golden Horn after ascending of Sultan Abdülhamid have been awarded with five medals. These rewards having contrasted with the existing condition of the navy are the result of the success of Tersane-i Amire in fine processing. Despite its success in the fair, the navy having left to corrode and of which culture have been destroyed was not to be able to fulfil the duties given for defending the homeland in the following period and Ottoman Empire was to pay a heavy price for the negligence. In preparation of the subject, Ottoman Archive documents of the Prime Ministry are benefited from as well as Naval Museum Archive documents.
More...New sources for the study of the architecture of the Romanesque Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Inowrocław
The paper examines a collection of nineteenth-century photographs housed in the Iconographic Laboratory of the Special Collections Department of the University Library in Poznań. These unique photos were taken by Regierungsrat Meydenlender in 1887. Some additional prints of Meydenlender’s photos are also kept in the Museum of the City of Poznań. Illustrating the state of preservation of the Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Inowrocław, showing the then damage to its walls and alternations done to the church in the course of 1900–1902 reconstruction, the photographs provide a valuable source for any conservatory works. The article explores several issues related to this barely known photographic material.
More...Arabski system handlowy a ekonomia polityczna społeczeństw Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej w X wieku
The economic boom, driven by the demand for slaves and furs in the countries of the Middle East and Middle Asia, the Maghreb and al-Andalus, and the resultant silver flows coming into the peripheral zone of Europe, permitted or facilitated the formation of early centres of power. In Wielkopolska, fur from tributes and people captured during raiding expeditions were traded for ores and luxury goods. These, in turn, were used to pay for the retinue (družina). Therefore, prestige and silver constituted the basis of ‘central’ power, conditioned the support for the power and thus its continued reign. The Czech lands were an important link in the transcontinental trade con-necting Khazaria and Hungary with al-Andalus. The Přemyslids’ power relied heavily on the income arising from the control over the routes passing through Prague. Nevertheless, their reign, notably Boleslav I’s, was also founded upon the organisation of slave export, a factor driving and regulating the Bohemian political economy throughout the second half of the tenth century.
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The Polish-Czechoslovak cultural and scientific relations were initiated upon the end of the Second World War. An agreement on the cultural cooperation between Prague and Warsaw was signed in July 1947. Most successful in the field of literature, the cooperation begot translations of literary works. In addition, contacts were established in other areas, such as theatre, cinema, photography, art, music and science. It is noteworthy that the cooperation was largely a matter of propaganda, intended to emphasise the achievements of socialism and the mutual friendship of fraternal socialist countries. Monopolized by the organs of state, it nevertheless formed the basis for establishing a number of personal relations between Polish and Czech and Slovak researchers and artists.
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Following the fall of the Byzantine Empire (1453) and the Empire of the Trebizond (1461) the fragmented Georgia made a desperate attempt at participating in European countries’ various efforts aimed at coalitions (political and military alike) against the Islamic Turkey posing a threat to the Christian world. In the 17th century, the captive Bagrationi dynasty managed to build up lasting trade relations with the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and intense cultural and religious contacts with the Papacy. The dynamically changing geopolitical system in the Caucasus region ultimately predestined the Russian Empire to become Georgia’s natural ally in the subsequent century as no other country could offer tangible military assistance to Georgia.
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Review of: 1. Sopron – Atlas zur ungarischen Stadtgeschichte 1 – Hungarian Atlas of Historic Towns No. 1. Hrsg. von K. Szende. Sopron 2010. 87 Seiten, 39 Abbildungen, 43 Karten, 7 Ansichten. by: I. Holl 2. M. Egg–D. Kramer: Krieger, Feste, Totenopfer. Der letzte Hallstattfürst von Kleinklein in der Steiermark. Mosaiksteine. Forschungen am Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseum. Band 1. Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums Mainz 2005. by: K. Jankovits 3. L. F. Vagalinski: Blood and entertainments. Sports and gladiatorial games in Hellenistic and Roman Thrace. Sofia 2009, 228 pages with illustrations. by: Zs. Visy
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