Broderies de tradition byzantine en Roumanie du XVe au XVIIe siècle.

Author(s): Iuliana Damian / Language(s): French Issue: 3/2019

During the France-Romania Season, the Louvre Museum hosted the first Romanian art exhibition ever organized by this prestigious museum, The Byzantine tradition of embroidery in Romania between the 15th and 17th centuries. About the standard of Stephen the Great, from April 17 to July 19, 2019. 36 exhibits from Romanian and French collections were presented to the French public, of which a unique ensemble in the world of embroidery from the collections of the National Art Museum of Romania, the National History Museum of Romania, and the monasteries Putna, Sucevița, and Three Hierarchs, illustrating the liturgical textiles used in the Orthodox churches, and the particular character of the Romanian tradition. The exhibition equally focused on the symbolic gesture made by the French state to return to Romania the battle standard of Stephen the Great in 1917, one of the most beauti-ful Romanian embroideries, created in 1500 and recovered by the French army from the Zographou monastery during the First World War. In addition, the important contribution of the researcher Gabriel Millet was high-lighted by a series of photographs and watercolours, as Millet’s pioneering volume La broderie religieuses de style byzantin led to a better understanding and promotion of the unique heritage of post-Byzantine embroidered textiles in Romania.

Водици в с. Добърско – обредност и музика

Author(s): Veselka Toncheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2019

The article presents Voditsi rite in the village of Dobarsko (Razlog Municipality, Blagoevgrad Region) and the ritual song repertoire, characterized by its antique musical thinking, melody and rhythmic specifics. The scholarly focus is centered on the processes of development of the traditional rites in the local culture. The diachronic point of view to the rite reveals the dynamics in the course of time as far as from the second half of the 1950s to the middle of the 1980s Voditsi rite performed in Dobarsko by young virgins has stopped to exist. After that the rite is reconstructed, but mainly as a performance on the scene. Today the rite is an important element of the cultural heritage of the village and functions as a sign of local identity.

Трансграничен изследователски проект „По пътя на българските градинари“

Author(s): Yordan Tyutyunkov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2019

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Неизвестен план на Търново от 1857 г.

Author(s): Ivan Rusev,Bernard Lory / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2020

The article presents a newly found city plan of Tarnovo, which was composed in 1857 by the Brittany-born geographer and cartographer Guillaume Lejean. The city plan was found at a Paris bouquiniste in 2018. As it is unsigned, the article offers some arguments supporting its attribution to Lejean. When he visited the old Bulgarian capital in the spring of 1857, he collected data, which he published and used as a basis for drawing the plan. This is the best among the city plans (maps) of Tarnovo to be composed until the late 1870s, both as a work of cartography and in terms of its historical information and artistic value.

В новите броеве на списанията на издателство „Аз-буки“ четете

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2020

Указания за авторите

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 1/2020

Guide for Authors

Българската власт на територията между Долен Дунав и Южните Карпати (дн. Влашка низина) през първата половина на ХІV в.

Author(s): Tervel Popov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2015

The purpose of the article is to examine the restoration of the Bulgarian government in the Wallachian plain in the early fourteenth century. Little-known documentary material is used (the charters of the Hungarian king Carl Robert of October 23, 1317 and March 27, 1329, a letter from Pope John XXII to Wallachian leader Ivanko Basarab from February 1, 1327, etc.) to shed light on the political processes in the Wallachian plain in the first half of the fourteenth century. The text is also based on archaeological researches of towns and villages situated on the left bank of the Danube river. Their architecture and material culture are similar to those of the Bulgarian medieval towns of XII – XIV century, which show a strong relation between the two sides of the great river.

Животът и смъртта на неолитната къща

Author(s): Vassil Nikolov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2015

During the second half of the early Neolithic (after 5800 B.C.), the construction of two-storey houses in the Eastern and Central Balkans began. It seems that in the early Neolithic both floors of these houses were used as residential, but in the late Neolithic (after 5500/5400 B.C.) only the upper floor had residential function – the bottom was used for commercial or industrial purposes (storage of products or salt production). Some of the Neolithic houses were deliberately burned. The intentionally burned houses were buried in pits according to the principle pars pro toto (“a part for the whole”). It seems that in the early Neolithic, the pit sanctuaries were located in the periphery of the village, and in the late Neolithic, in ritual complexes situated outside the village. The researchers have no reason to separate the dead Neolithic people from their houses. It follows that the “cremated” houses might lead us to their probably cremated inhabitants - one of the possible explanations of the vast amount of “missing” graves in the Balkan Neolithic.

Поп Груйо Тренчов и неговата поема за Априлската епопея от 1876 г.

Author(s): Christo Temelski / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2015

The article reveals some moments of the life of pop Gruyo Trenchov -an ardent revolutionary who participated in The April uprising of 1876. He is author of a poem, that reflected his memories of the heroic epic.

Белгийските провинции в плен на европейската политика (1814 – 1815 г.)

Author(s): Svetla Glushkova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2015

The political construct established in 1814 – 1815 by Napoleon’s victors aimed at uniting Belgians and Dutch in one country the Netherlands governed by William of the Orange-Nassau dynasty. The construct was theoretically useful for the European balance but at the same time it turned out to be anachronistic because it took into consideration neither the religious differences nor the continuous formation of two completely different nations.

Как по-точно да се възприема съвременният ислямски фундаментализъм

Author(s): Mladen Manev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2015

What is the modern understanding of the Islamic fundamentalism today? What is the difference between Islamic fundamentalism and Islamic terrorism? What is the political definition for these two topics? What is the forced public opinion for these social phenomenon? What is political Islam? Where is the common ground between religion and politics? The historical science and the history of the Middle East from the recent past (the last 50-60 years) gives us different answers to these questions compared to the modern political rhetoric from the end of the last century.

145 години БАН – предизвикателства и перспективи

Author(s): Ilia Todev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2015

В новите броеве на списанията на издателство ,,Аз-буки“ четете

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2015

Указания за авторите

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 6/2015

Guide for Authors

Measuring feminisation of urban poverty among domestic workers in Delhi, India

Author(s): Sanjay CHOPRA / Language(s): English Issue: 01/2020

Poverty affects women more forcefully causing increased proportion as well as types of deprivations, a phenomenon called feminisation of poverty. Migration of rural poor to cities causes problems of its own, more so for the women. They come to cities in a bid to escape from rural unemployment and deprivation but lead insecure lives in the cities, exemplified by the urban domestic helps. The co-existence of feminisation and urbanisation of poverty affects the women and their families, particularly children, especially the girl child, who begins to experience deprivations in all its forms from a tender age. These reduced circumstances thus perpetuate across generations of poor urban women and entrap them deep in poverty.The objectives of this study are two-fold. Scientific literature is scanned for indicators used to study feminization of poverty and the validity of these indicators in the given context is examined. Secondly, the study aims to explore the most relevant indicators through direct interaction with the target population. Existing literature on feminized poverty is replete with studies that have used household as the unit of observation. While there are strong justifications for the choice, this approach is unable to address the intra-household inequalities. This study therefore employs the individual woman domestic worker as the unit of observation. The survey method, using questionnaire is employed for collecting the primary data.

Периодизация на българската средновековна история

Author(s): Georgi N. Nikolov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2020

The article presents for the first time theoretical argumentation for the periodization of Bulgarian medieval history. The attempts for such periodization, which are reflected in the content and structure of the summarized scientific publications on the history of medieval Bulgaria from the end of the 19th century to the present day, are reviewed. It has to be concluded that state-political history is a dominant marker. The lower boundary of the Bulgarian medieval history goes back to the time from the earliest history of the Bulgarians and Slavs before the Great Migration of the Peoples, and the upper boundary is the end of the XVII century. In conclusion, the Bulgarian medieval history can be divided in three main periods: Early, High and Late Middle ages.

Към ранната история на едно българско книжовно средище: възникване и развитие на Аджар според османски данъчни регистри от XVII век

Author(s): Krastyo Yordanov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2020

An attempt to throw light on the early history of Adzhar village,today’s Svezhen, based mainly on four unpublished Ottoman tax registers, is made in the article. The author claims that the earliest documents discovered so far about the existence of Adzhar as a settlement date from the first decades of the XVII century. The village was first mentioned on the pages of an abridged avarız-register from the years 1621 – 1622. Data about the presence of large summer pastures and sheepfolds in the region of Sarnena Sredna Gora Mountain as early as the 16th century show that the foundation of the village can be related to the good conditions for livestock breeding of a peaceful place in the depths of the mountain. It is very likely that part of the inhabitants of Adzhar had been dzheleps, who bred sheep and other cattle for the food needs of the big cities, the army and the Sultan’s Palace. Asa result, raw materials including sheep wool and sheepskins led to the development of a number of crafts.The Orthodox Bulgarian population of Adzhar grew rapidly. Due to the demographic and economic development, a significant literary centre was created there for transcribing and illustrating liturgical books. A church with two priests was built in the village. There is information that in the second half of the 17th century sheep-breeding, crafts such as goat hair processing (mutafcılık) and tailoring, as well as trade and transportation of goods (in exchange of payment – kiracılık)developed in Adzhar.

„Тракийски танци“ на Петко Стайнов – от историческите архиви до присъствието в съвременните учебници по музика в общообразователното училище

Author(s): Penka Marcheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2020

Тhe article presents an exploration of the “life” of one of the 20th century's symbolic symphonic works in Bulgarian musical culture – composer Petko Staynov’s “Thracian Dances” suite. The starting point of this study is research into some of the archival documents related to the work’s first performance in 1927. The next stage goes through the analysis of the piece’s presence in textbooks from the last third of the last century to the adoption of the Law on Pre-school and School Education. The final stage of this study is focused on the presence of the work and the educational context it is linked to in some of the contemporary Bulgarian textbooks.

Нов поглед към българския елит

Author(s): Gergana Georgieva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2020

По пътя на римските императори и дунавския път на виното – в търсене на местно наследство

Author(s): Nikolay Nenov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2019

The text presents the incorporation in public activities and research paradigms of Russe museum related to the European cultural route “The Roman Emperors and Danube Wine Route”, which turns to be a catalyst of the change in the way of presentation and sharing of heritage in the region. The observations are focused on the historical reconstruction “Roman market” establishing itself as a festival with a focus on pre-modern food. The author follows the images of the Roman fortress, the variants of museum pedagogics, the digitalization and the 3D printing of artefacts, which certify the narration about the past throughout their testimony.The local feasts strengthen local memory and unite communities. They also build social and cultural ties to the place where they regularly happen.The cultural route is important for the processes, which the Rousse museum tries to guide while searching to form of knowledge and compassion on the themes connected to local heritage.