Fenomen "Krstjani" u srednjovjekovnoj Bosni i Humu

Author(s): / Language(s): Bosnian,Bulgarian,Croatian,Italian

With contributions by Mladen Ančić, Lujo Margetić, Иван Божилов, Milko Brković, Salih Jalimam, Dubravko Lovrenović, Ivica Puljić, Tomo Vukšić, Tomislav Zdenko Tenšek, Zlatko Matijević, Ante Škegro, Jadranka Neralić, Ante Birin, Nenad Moačanin, Elma Hašimbegović, Franjo Šanjek, Andrija Šuljak, Marco Rainini, Slavko Slišković, Andrija Zirdum, Anica Nazor, Marko Josipović, Mato Zovkić, Alojz Jembrih, Zdravka Jelaska Marijan, Margareta Matijević.

The Early Years of the Bulgarian Athonite Monastery of Zographou (980-1279) and its Byzantine Archive. Critical Edition of the Greek and Slavic Documents

Author(s): Cyril Pavlikyanov / Language(s): English

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.

«Пещерный» монастырь у Южных ворот Чуфут-Кале

Author(s): Mikhail M. Choref,Mikhail Ya. Choref,Ch.Sh. Choref / Language(s): Russian

In this study purpose be setting to get answer on very important question at medieval history of the Crimea. We tried to date the time of origin a “cave” monastery. The object of study became rock complex near South gate of Chufut-Kale. Now we found out that, on this territory was early medieval monastery and we can to identity its outline and period of existence. This book for professional historians, students, regional specialists and all interested of late antiquity and medieval Crimea.

Натписи историјске садржине у зидном сликарству. Том први - XII-XIII век

Author(s): Gojko Subotić,Bojan Miljković,Irena Špadijer,Ida Toth / Language(s): French,Serbian

La pratique consistant à apposer sur une oeuvre de nature artistique une inscription qui nous parle de sa réalisation, de son commanditaire oude son auteur remonte à un lointain passé. Dans le monde chrétien, de tels messages ont reçu une fonction et un caractère spécifiques. A l’origine, réduit le plus souvent à des formules abrégées, voire de simples signes, leur texte s’est progressivement étoffé en recevant, dans les grands lieux de cultes, un véritable contenu. Ceci vaut tout particulièrement pour le matériel écrit entrant dans la décoration murale des sanctuaires, qui, par son esprit et son programme, exprimait l’idée que l’église est une image de l’univers. Un ensemble particulier y était constitué par les représentations de personnages historiques et les textes qui les accompagnent. Leur combinaison répondait à l’aspiration de l’homme à trouver sa place au sein du cosmos chrétien qui, à l’intérieur de l’église, se traduisait par un schéma thématique complexe – allant du Christ Pantocrator figuré en son point le plus élevé, en passant par une multitude de représentations soigneusement disposées, à travers lesquelles se manifestaient tant la présence divine que la grâce de Dieu s’abaissant sur terre, jusqu’aux saints les plus proches des fidèles, car issus des rangs des martyrs, des archiprêtres, des moines et des ermites. Finalement, sur les surfaces les plus basses, adressant leurs prières à Dieu par l’intermédiaire de ces saints, venaient les ktètors et leurs proches parents, et, à leurs cotés, les dignitaires investis des pouvoirs profanes et religieux les plus élevés, les seigneurs locaux, les higoumènes et les donateurs. Tous étaient associés à quelque inscription.

The Bulgarian State in 927–969. The Epoch of Tsar Peter I

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

Tsar Peter (927-969), the book’s protagonist, is all too frequently presented in modern scholarship as a weak ruler, devoid of any grander political aspirations, focused on religious matters, indeed – pious, but neglecting the vital interests of his subjects. It was said that during his reign both his court and state became Byzantinised, that the central authority was completely helpless in the face of Hungarian raids, and saw the spread of the Bogomilist heresy. According to the Tsar’s critics, it was as a result of his ineffectual rule that Boris II, his son and successor, was unable to defend Bulgaria’s sovereignty in 971.This book – the first monograph in world literature devoted to Peter - was written by Bulgarian (Miliana Kaymakamova, Georgi N. Nikolov, Angel Nikolov, Nikolay Hrissimov) and Polish medievalists (Miroslaw J. Leszka, Kirił Marinow, Zofia A. Brzozowska Jan M. Wolski). Thanks to a thorough analysis of the sources and an in-depth knowledge of the literature of the subject, they constructed a comprehensive and balanced image of the reign of their protagonist, and of the role he played in the history of mediaeval Bulgaria.

Петербургский апокриф. Послание от Марка

Author(s): / Language(s): Russian

Mitologia Słowian

Author(s): Aleksander Gieysztor / Language(s): Polish

The mythology of Slavs understood as a system of allegories, symbols, personifications, presenting the attitude of man to the world. For more than 20 years, it has been a teaching aid in many university courses. The new edition includes, among others, the footnotes and bibliography prepared partly by Aleksander Gieysztor, partly by Aneta Pieniądz and the publisher on the basis of the material retained in the author’s posthumous legacy.

Brytowie

Author(s): Christopher A. Snyder / Language(s): Polish

A cross-sectional look at the history of the Britons. Based on the analysis of written and archaeological sources, the author systematizes the knowledge on the history of the Britons in pre-Roman, Roman and Medieval periods, and presents the characteristics of social strata, literature, historiography, language, but also religion and the formation mechanism of Church structures.

Król i Korona Cierniowa. Kult relikwii we Francji Kapetyngów

Author(s): Jerzy Pysiak / Language(s): Polish

The author portrays the relation between two problems of the medieval kingdom of France: the apocryphal 11th-century legend about Charlemagne bringing the Crown of Thorns to the kingdom of the Franks and its reception in 11th–13th century literature, and reconstructing the actual Capetian cult of relics. In the author’s opinion between the 11th and 13th century both phenomena of the spiritual culture of Capetian France were shaping the religious ideological foundations of the Capetian dynasty.

Księgi ławnicze Starej Warszawy z lat 1453-1535

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish,Latin

The publication encompasses four Warsaw juror books, which include the minutes of the office and document life of Old Warsaw inhabitants at the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Early Modern Period. The collected material allows detailed research into the city populace, its intellectual and material culture as well as its space and economic life.

Liber Romani. Studia ofiarowane Romanowi Michałowskiemu w siedemdziesiątą rocznicę urodzin

Author(s): / Language(s): French,Polish,German,Italian

An anniversary publication for the renowned medieval historian Professor Roman Michałowski. The articles collected in the volume address the widely understood issues of medieval political and religious culture as well as the history of the Church in that period. Their authors, experts on the Middle Ages, come from Poland and from abroad and are not only historians but also archaeologists.

Oryginalność czy wtórność? Studia poświęcone polskiej kulturze politycznej i religijnej (X-XIII wiek)

Author(s): / Language(s): Czech,Polish

The authors of the articles aim to examine to what extent Polish culture in 10th-13th century was original or secondary. In Poland, some elements of Catholic spirituality – formed outside its borders – settled in faster or more slowly, some carried more weight than in the West, some were omitted. It did happen, however, that some processes taking place in Catholic church originated in Poland.

Monarchia, społeczeństwo, tożsamość. Studia z dziejów średniowiecza

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

The jubilee volume offered to professor Sławomir Gawlas, a renown historian medievalist from the University of Warsaw. The volume contains articles situated in three fields of the research on the middle ages: monarchy, society in a broad sense, and identity.

Piraci czy sułtani? Dahlak Kebir jako ośrodek handlowy i polityczny na Morzu Czerwonym VII–XVI wiek

Author(s): Tomasz Barański / Language(s): Polish

The monograph shows the history of the Dahlak Archipelago, located in the Red Sea, near Eritrea. On the basis of written sources (Greek, Arabic, Judeo-Arabic, Ethiopian, Turkish and Portuguese) and the research conducted at the Dahlak Kebir archeological site (including Arabic funerary inscriptions from the island), the author analyses political and economic nature of Dahlak between the 7 th and 16th century.

Wykład o słodkiej ziemi Cypru „Cronaca”, to jest Kroniką, zwany

Author(s): Leoncjusz Machieras / Language(s): Polish

Leontios Machairas’s fifteenth century account is beyond doubt the most outstanding example of mediaeval Greek chronicle-writing. The work is the main source on Cypriot history in the period following the island’s seizure by Frankish Crusaders as well as a monument of living vernacular Cypriot Greek of the Middle Ages. The story told encompasses 1,131 years: from the discovery of the True Cross by Saint Helen (327) to the end of the Frankish rule of the island with the death of King John II (1458). The author of the chronicle was a Greek-speaking Cypriot native but also a Frankish courtier. The reader gets a feeling as though the author had documented a gradual making of Cyprus’s Franko-Greek society, hailing mostly from the middle (urban) classes of the islanders: natives as well as incomers, with more uniting than dividing both groups as time went by. Speaking at least two languages, attending Greek and Latin churches, they were probably blissfully unaware of the problem of ‘dual loyalty’.

Piastowskie fundacje klasztorów żeńskich w Polsce XIII wieku

Author(s): Anna Agnieszka Dryblak / Language(s): Polish

The monograph offers an analysis of chief convent foundations set up in the thirteenth century by benefactors from Piast dynasty circles. The foundations are shown in a comparative perspective which looks both at the idea of the convent in Western Europe of the early Middle Ages and its receptions in Central Europe. The (somewhat different) origins of female monastic communities in Poland are also presented, with an additional focus on major aristocratic foundations.

Цар Симеон Велики (893–927)

Author(s): Rasho Rashev / Language(s): Bulgarian

Rasho Rashev’s book does not have a monolithic character. It does not comprehensively reveal the time and activities of King Simeon the Great, but consists of several studies, which the author himself defines as “touches to his personality and work”. In them a very interesting and largely successful attempt has been made to seek answers to questions that have remained outside the attention of previous researchers or have been little addressed by them. Among the themes he discusses are: the notion of the king as a “vassal peacemaker”, a “new Moses”, a “new David”; Simeon’s nature as the “last proto-Bulgarian”; his activities as a historian and his attitude to the Name Book of the Bulgarian Khans and to the pagan past of his ancestors. Rasho Rashev’s interpretation is not only original and attracts with its new ideas, but also predisposes to reflection. It greatly enriches the image of the great Bulgarian king.

Презвитер Козма

Author(s): Dimitar Angelov / Language(s): Bulgarian

Priest Kozma is an eminent Old Bulgarian cleric and scribe of the 10th century. Hhis famous work “Discourse against the Bogomils” is one of the earliest and most important testimonies of the struggle of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church against Bogomilism. The author acad. Dimitar Angelov (1917 – 1996) was a well-known medievalist, he was among the greatest experts and researchers of the Bogomil heresy in the Bulgarian lands and of its spread in Europe.

Славянские претериты с исторической точки зрения: к истории форм перфекта в русском языке (на материале служебных миней на май XI-XIII вв.)

Author(s): Anastasia Sokolova / Language(s): Russian

The present monograph is engaging to the development of the analytical construction, which is traditionally called the perfect tense and which served as the basis for the universal preterit of the present Russian. As the primary source of materials were chosen Slavonic liturgical Menaions for the month of May from 11th to 13th centuries (Putyatina Mineya, 11th c., Menaion Sof. 203, 12th c., Menaion Sof. 204, 13th c.). Since the examined texts are translations from Ancient Greek, also the Greek Mineje was used to analyse the units under examination.

Ruś wikingów. Skandynawowie we wczesnośredniowiecznej Europie Wschodniej

Author(s): Władysław Duczko / Language(s): Polish

A new, supplemented and corrected Polish translation of the classic publication "The Viking Rus". The author talks about the beginnings of statehood in Eastern Europe and about the role Scandinavians played in it. He presents and discusses in detail rich archaeological material from research in the East, comparing it with finds from Scandinavia, which proves that in the Viking Age, large communities of Scandinavians settled in the areas of today's Russia and Ukraine. They kept their identity by maintaining contacts with their country of origin. These people, called the Rus, created the first state structures in the East, including the foundations of Kievan Rus.