Egipatsko zaveštanje: obelisci na teritoriji carskog Rima

Author(s): Tamara Miladinović / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 3/2016

Ancient Egyptian civilization has left much of its cultural and artistic heritage in legacy to Rome. Among other things this includes obelisks, giant monolithic monuments carved from red granite. In ancient Egypt they usually stood as pair pillars, in front of the entrances of temples. Because of their shape, they were linked with rays of Sun, being their petrified representation. As such, obelisks made the connection between Earth and Heavens. After conquering Egyptian territory, following the battle of Actium in 31. BC, Romans have began appropriation of Egyptian monuments even more intensively. Octavian August was the first emperor who recognized the potential of obelisks. They could serve him as a powerful instrument of propaganda, emphasizing the fact that he was the one who was responsible for conquering Egypt. Thus, August decided to move the first two obelisks to Rome in 10. BC. First one was set up in centre of Circus Maximus, ancient Roman chariot racing stadium, and the second on Campus Martius where it served as a sundial. Shortly after, other emperors started to follow his example. Caligula, Domitian, Hadrian were some of them. Meanwhile, a new practice emerged, obelisk now could be carved directly in Rome, which was the case with Domitian’s and Hadrian’s obelisks. During the Middle Ages obelisks fell into oblivion, much of them lying in the ruins, for the sake of Ostrogothic siege or earthquakes. It was not until pontificate of Pope Sixtus V (1585-1590) that they once again came into centre of attention. Thanks to his engagement, obelisks were raised once more, but this time as symbols of Christian supremacy.

ІСТОРИКО-КУЛЬТУРОЛОГІЧНИЙ АНАЛІЗ НАЦІОНАЛЬНОЇ ПРОБЛЕМАТИКИ НІГЕРІЇ В МІЖНАРОДНИХ ДОКУМЕНТАХ

Author(s): Joy Chidinma Otuonye / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 2/2015

The article views the Major acceptable problems of National right , human right and human freedom development carried by International Organization Such as U. N .A ., U.N.E.S.C.O. and others.

ВПЛИВ ШЕКСПІРІВСЬКОЇ ДРАМАТУРГІЇ НА ТВОРЧІСТЬ ВИДАТНОГО ЯПОНСЬКОГО РЕЖИСЕРА АКІРИ КУРОСАВИ

Author(s): Violetta Demeschenko / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 1/2015

The article describes the features of creativity talented filmmaker who turned to the theatrical tradition of Japa-nese theater "No" borrowed some theatrical techniques that have been handed down to them on the screen, an empha-sis on the relationship between theater and film through the prism of Shakespeare's literary heritage and drama which affected the work of the outstanding Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, who gave the works of Shakespeare his per-sonal interpretation of Japanese cinematic version.

Македония в българския исторически календар през2013 година

Author(s): Aleksandar Grebenarov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2013

HISTORY & SOCIETY IN CENTRAL EUROPE, 2. MEDIUM AEYUM QUOTIDIANUM, 29. Nobilities in Central and Eastern Europe: Kinship, Property and Privilege. Ed by Jánоs M. Bak. Hajnal Istvan Alapitvany, Budapest. Medium Aevum Quotidianum Gesellschaft, Krems,1994

Author(s): Vanya Petkova / Language(s): English Issue: 3/1995

Съюзът на българите-фашисти и отношението му по националния въпрос

Author(s): Voin Bozhinov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2012

Although having no appreciable influence on the Bulgarian society, the Union of Bulgarian Fascists was a formation that built to a large extent the image of the ultra right political space in the Kingdom.

Бежанският въпрос в Албания и българската хуманитарна акция през 1913 г.

Author(s): Georgi N. Georgiev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2012

The article examines the humanitarian contributions of the Bulgarian state to alleviate the refugee issue in Albania, occurred during the Balkan Wars (1912-1913) with the forced migration of Albanians and Bulgarians from Macedonia, Kosovo, Epirus andothers, as a consequence of the violence of established there oppressive regimes in Serbia,Montenegro and Greece. Bulgarian humanitarian action, taken after the defeat of the Bulgarian-Albanian uprising in the autumn of 1913 against Serbian authorities in western Macedonia, western Kosovo and the still occupied areas in northern Albania, is carried out on two levels.

Русско-болгарские отношения и национальная самоидентичность в условиях глобализации

Author(s): Vladimir Koznechevskiy / Language(s): Russian Issue: 1/2012

“TEMPORAL MODERNIZATION” IN THE OTTOMAN PRE-TANZIMAT CONTEXT

Author(s): Marinos Sariyannis / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2017

Studies on the perception of time, leisure and timekeeping in the Ottoman Empire have focused in the Tanzimat period, as the main paradigm is the development of such attitudes and practices during the rise of capitalist economy in Europe, now identified with the rise of “modernity”. The paper questions the use of “early modernity” as an interpretational tool and tries to assess developments and transformations in these perceptions during the earlier Ottoman history, in order to locate established mentalities and their changes. For this aim, different sources are analyzed, including diaries, chronicles and travel accounts in Ottoman Turkish and Greek. It is shown that, while there is a strong tendency for the use of temporal precision in various fields of everyday life and of state institutions throughout the eighteenth century, the use of clocks in labor appeared with a considerable delay, in the second half of the nineteenth century.

Les spécialistes des sciences sociales et les prévisions de la chute des régimes communistes

Author(s): Miroslav Novák / Language(s): French Issue: 44/2017

1989 in China and Eastern Europe in Diachronic Perspective

Author(s): Martin K. Dimitrov / Language(s): English Issue: 44/2017

Challenges of a Social and Cultural History of the Intellectual Service Classes in Late Socialism (1956-1989)

Author(s): Dieter Segert / Language(s): English Issue: 44/2017

Comparing Socialist Television Cultures: The "Screening Socialism" Project

Author(s): Sabina Mihelj / Language(s): English Issue: 44/2017

Communism and Social Sciences: Resistance as a Struggle for Individual Academic Autonomy. The Magnificent Seven on the Screen of Socialism.

Author(s): Georgi Lozanov / Language(s): English Issue: 44/2017

Svatopluk I. – kníže nebo král?

Author(s): David Kalhous / Language(s): Czech Issue: 2/2016

Based on a comparison of the contemporary Annals of Fulda, Annals of St. Bertin, Chronicle of Regino and papal letters, the author analyses the position of the Moravian prince Svatopluk I (871–894). Through the comparison of Svatopluk with his contemporaries, princes of Brittany, the analysed texts are further studied in the framework of the Carolingian policy and political thinking.

Were strongholds church centres in the tenth-and eleventh-century Piast realm?

Author(s): Marcin Danielewski / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

The purpose of this paper is to review the idea of strongholds as church centres, put forward by Tadeusz Lalik in 1967. The paper also seeks to determine how advanced was the process of the Christianisation of the Polish lands in the second half of the tenth and throughout the eleventh centuries.

Първият мандат на Георги Първанов. С., 2011, 608 с.

Author(s): Trendafil Atanasov Mitev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2011

Новооткрит документ за Българо-албанското въстание от 1913 г.

Author(s): Georgi N. Georgiev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2010

Стари каузативни глаголи в македонските говори

Author(s): Kiril Parvanov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2010

The article presents old causative verbs which still exist in Macedonian accents. Verbs are chosen which do not have forms in Bulgarian literary language, also they have preserved old meanings and have formed new ones.

Современные исследования морфологических и культурных аспектов обычая искусственной деформации головы в традиционных культурах народов мира

Author(s): Maria A. Balabanova / Language(s): Russian Issue: 6/2017

The custom of premeditated deformation of the head is one of the forms of modification of the human body which is well diagnosed on skeletal material and also described in the scientific literature. Different nations from all continents have been practicing it since ancient times until now. The earliest and well dated evidential archeological finds of the skulls with the traces of deliberate deformation can be referred to XII millennium BC and were found in the Near East. In connection with the custom of premeditated deformation of the head, different issues have been raised by the Russian and foreign scientists. The results of their research, as well as the analysis of the available ethnographic literature about nations practicing this custom, allow to identify a number of similar aspects. First of all, these are close behavioral and sociocultural motives. The effect of the deforming structure on the growing child’s head was also the same and depended on the type of deformation. The changeability of craniometric and cranioscopic signs under the pressure of a deforming structure is almost not debated by different researchers. The influence of deformation on the health is also discussed and all authors come to the conclusion that it has a small pathological effect which is compatible with a healthy lifestyle.