Book Reviews: Zofia Brzozowska, Święta księżna kijowska Olga. Wybór tekstów źródłowych [Saint Olga – Princess of Kievan Rus’. An Anthology of Sources], Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Łódź 2014, pp. 217.
Journal Title: Studia Ceranea. Journal of the Waldemar Ceran Research Centre for the History and Culture of the Mediterranean Area and South-East Europe - Year 2015, Vol 5, Issue
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Book Review.
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Andrzej R. Hołasek
Kalin Yanakiev as a Writer of Apocrypha? Remarks on the Essay Дебат върху теодицеята (A Debate on Theodicy)
The article engages with the philosophical and theological notion of theodicy as formulated by Kalin Yanakiev in Дебат върху теодицеята (A Debate on Theodicy), an essay which appeared in Yanakiev’s book Философски опити...
Tsar Samuel Against Emperor Basil II: Why Did Bulgaria Loose the Battle with the Byzantine Empire at the Beginning of the 11th Century
At the beginning of the 11th century, after decades of almost incessant wars with the Byzantine Empire, the Bulgarian state lost its political independence. In many research works on the period in question there is empha...
Book Reviews: Emperor and author: The writings of Julian the Apostate, eds. Nicholas Baker-Brian, Shaun Tougher, The Classical Press of Wales, Cardiff 2012, pp. 384.
Book Review.
Selected Elements of Animated Nature Associated with the Birth of Jesus in the Bulgarian Oral Culture and Apocryphal Narratives
The article attempts to extract textual and extratextual planes on which representatives of fauna made their mark in the folklore of the South Slavs, mainly Bulgarians; in their oral literature, rituals, and beliefs, jux...
Плач Адама и «адамический текст» в древнеславянской рукописной традиции
Apocryphal stories of Adam related to the subjects of the Paradise lost, Adam’s repentance and expulsion from Eden, life of Adam and Eve after the expulsion, the manuscript that Adam gave to Satan, the Holy Cross story...