Киното в прединдустриалните общества: Балканите в междувоенния период

Author(s): Karl Kaser / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2015

The article gives a rough overview about the development of cinema in the Balkan countries in the interwar period which was characterized by a low level of economy. Especially, the countries lacked industrial infrastructure which was a precondition for a flourishing cinema life from its very beginning. Therefore, cinema played only a marginal role in the agrarian Balkan countries. It was practically confined to the urban space. The European cinema market was dominated by international US-American and German film producers. In the Balkans a domestic film production could hardly emerge. The introduction of the talkie deteriorated conditions for domestic film pro¬duction because of the increasing production costs. Cinema could only become a mass phenomenon after the period of scrutiny when industrialization enabled mass consumption, also of films, in the 1950s and 1960s.

Представата за град Видин в средновековната българска книжнина (XI–XIV в.)

Author(s): Miliyana Kaymakamova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2015

Имената на София през вековете

Author(s): Annie Dancheva-Vasileva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2015

A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery Inside an Enigma: Deception, Truth and Modernism

Author(s): Roland Boer / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2016

This article deals with the widespread assumption that a significant collection of texts known as the Bible is inherently ‘deceptive’. That is, the Bible does not – it is assumed – say what was ‘really’ going on in the ancient world. The truth, therefore, must be found by going behind or beneath the text (the spatial metaphors should be noted). Here the real story may found, through archaeology or reading the text against itself. This approach may be described as a modernist ‘depth model’, in which the surface attempts to conceal the truth, while the truth itself must be found by going around the surface text. This remains a dominant approach in biblical criticism. However, it cannot be understood without earlier and indeed, in some quarters, current assumptions concerning the realist nature of the text. In this case, the text reflects in a reasonably trustworthy fashion the context of the text, if not the ideological assumptions and positions of the putative authors. Modernist ‘depth models’ may then be seen as attempts to respond to realist assumptions. A third moment is what could be called postmodern: in this case, the distance between surface and depth is challenged, so that the various possibilities become equal contestants for the dominant position. This entails a shift away from the assumption of a singular truth of the text, characteristic of both realist and modernist assumptions, to the understanding of multiple truth claims – not as relative but as absolutes that permit other absolutes. The argument emphasises that these approaches should be seen as dialectically related to one another, rather that mutually exclusive approaches.

Българо-сръбска научна конференция „Средновековните Балкани: контакти и обмен“

Author(s): Zlatomira Gerdzhikova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 31/2015

Владимир Вавржинек на 85 години

Author(s): Margarita Mladenova,Margaret Dimitrova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 31/2015

Игор И. Калиганов. Проблемы истории и культуры славянских народов

Author(s): Tina Georgieva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 31/2015

Rövidítések

Author(s): / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: III-V/2010

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Периодика 2014–2015 г.

Author(s): Emiliya Voleva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 30/2015

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

Литературни или културологични сравнения? За сборника: Пътища и пътеки на европеизма на Балканите. [Roads and Trails of the Europeanism in the Balkans. In honor of the 50th anniversary since the Institute for Balkan Studies & Center of... 2014.

Author(s): Roumiana L. Stantcheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2015

Roads and Trails of the Europeanism in the Balkans. In honor of the 50th anniversary since the Institute for Balkan Studies & Center of Thracology foundation. Antoaneta Balcheva and Yordanka Bibina (Ed.)

„Judasz z Monte Sicuro” — lekcja o moralności czasów wojny

Author(s): Lucyna Sadzikowska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 24/2015

The works created in a German concentration camp by Gustaw Morcinek — an author well-known to literary circles and present at schools or in academic perception (though today almost forgotten), and recognizable to the Polish readers thanks to “Łysek z pokładu Idy” (“Baldie from Ida Coal Seam”) and “Wyrąbany chodnik” (“Clear Drift”) — prove that the problems shown in them are still of utmost importance. “Judasz z Monte Sicuro” (“Judas of Monte Sicuro”) — a novel by Gustaw Morcinek, on which this article focuses, gives an honest picture of traumatic wartime experiences, devoid of simplifications and distortions. It may become an important commentary on short stories by Tadeusz Borowski and “The Tin Drum” by Gunter Grass. Regardless of these works’ genesis, the attitudes of their protagonists are similar: they follow a subjective hierarchy of values, rejecting moral norms, and — repeatedly — causing conflicts with their surroundings. In school practice, “Judasz z Monte Sicuro” can be considered a significant work from both the historical and literary perspectives. It constitutes a record created by an eye-witness and chronicler of other people’s observations, and at the same time, it is an original work, written in simple language, unfettered by any rigid principles of the genre, and thus attracting attention with its authenticity and frankness. In school environment, reading “Judasz…” — which is appropriate in accordance with the core curriculum approved by the Ministry of Education — can bring a variety of interesting effects. One needs to remember that literature in secondary schools is primarily an event, whose content is unpredictable, diverse and complicated.

The Personality of Kotys in the Ancient Literary Tradition

Author(s): Dobriela Kotova / Language(s): English Issue: 21/2014

Kotys remains in history as one of the most remarkable individualities in the first half of the 4th century BC. He was the great politician of the Odrysian kingdom, the king who turned the Odrysae into a factor of political life in the Balkans and in the Early Hellenistic world. His character and lifestyle were of particular interest to the ancient writers. Greek 4th century authors understandably painted his image in a deliberately maligned and biased manner, and cast the foundations for his extremely unfavourable reputation for centuries ahead. However, the intensive literary tradition surrounding his personality is actually fuelled by the great and unswervingly followed ambition of that Thracian ruler to find his prominent place in the Hellenic space and to become successfully an integral part of the trends in the Early Hellenistic world. The paper presents the evidence on the personality of Kotys, which has been left to us by authors from different historical periods and genres, and traces the evolution of his image.

VI. Малоазийските сектантски формирования (казълбаши, тахтаджи и др. )

Author(s): Franz Babinger / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 21/2014

This article represent textual part of the book of Franz Babinger "Sheikh Bedreddin, the son of the judge from Simav" (translation by the editor).

„W MOCY DUCHA ŚWIĘTEGO. KSIĘGA PAMIĄTKOWA DLA JEGO EKSCELENCJI KSIĘDZA BISKUPA EDWARDA BIAŁOGŁOWSKIEGO Z OKAZJI XXV ROCZNICY ŚWIĘCEŃ BISKUPICH”, RED. P. MIERZWA, M. NABOŻNY, RZESZÓW 2013, S. 496, ISBN 978-83-936516-0-3

Author(s): Waldemar Pałęcki / Language(s): Polish Issue: 18-20/2013

Поемането на изпълнителната власт - конституционен или "личен режим"?

Author(s): Milko Palangurski / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 20/2014

In this article Prof. Palangurski is reviewing the political history in modern Bulgaria - from the Liberation in the late 19th century till early 20th century.

Научни форуми

Author(s): Nikola Kazanski / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 26/2013

Русия срещу антихриста: страховете на православната общественост и позицията на Църквата

Author(s): Victor Shnirelman / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2016

History shows that in times of deep social crises there is a considerable growth of eschatological sentiments. At the end of the twentieth century Russia encounters revolutionary political, economic and cultural changes, some of them being related to a religious renaissance. The discrediting and collapse of the former communist ideology created a vacuum which was quickly filled with a variety of ideas, including the revival of some pre-revolutionary myths. The return of religion leads not only to increase of the number of believers but also to the emergence of Orthodox monarchist organizations in which faith is combined with the dream of restoration of the kingship. Prophecies based on images from “Apocalypse” are quite popular in these circles. The article analyzes the content of the prophecies, the characteristics of their publication and dissemination, the nature of the activists dealing with these matters as well as the religious political movements and their impact on the believers. The author discusses the question about the different meaning of these prophecies, about the radical right-wing movements, and the ezoterists and konspirologists who have their own interpretations and use them differently. In addition, the question about the relationship between religion and politics in the modern era is also raised.

Локализиране на балканската прародина на българите туканци от Бесарабия и Таврия според писмени и фолклорни източници

Author(s): Alexander I. Ganchev,Vladimir Milchev,Alexander A. Prigarin / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2016

The problem of the origin of tukantsi, the first Bulgarian settlers in Budjak remains already for a long time a controversial question. The article, which is the result of a complex research of the authors, demonstrates that the inhabitants of the valleys between Stara planina and Sredna Gora called Karadza Dag (Sarnena Sredna Gora) are the earliest Bulgarian immigrants in Southern Bessarabia in modern times. The article is based on different sources: acts and statistics from the archival collections of modern Ukraine and Moldova and materials from field studies accomplished by the authors in the period between 2012 and 2014, in Budjak and Sredna gora (photo documents, oral and written narratives). The updated statistical documents, together with the narratives, the folklore, graphic and other types of sources not only allow to confirm the hypothesis of the South Bulgarian origin of the tukantsi from the region of Karadza Dag, but also reflect the direct continuity, the direct genetic link between Budjak and the Balkans during the nineteenth century.

Владимир Демирев. Местно знание и сакрална топография в Сливенско. Сливен: ИК „Жажда”, 2014

Author(s): Ivan Marazov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2016

Book Review

Марек Якубек. Войводово, едно непознато чешко село в България. София: Парадигма, 2013

Author(s): Todor Bozhinov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2016

Book Review