Spre veșnica amintire a lui Gilbert Dagron După moartea Majestății Mele, indiferent cine va fi ur... more Spre veșnica amintire a lui Gilbert Dagron După moartea Majestății Mele, indiferent cine va fi urmașul Majestății Mele, fie dintre copiii Majestății Mele, fie dintre rude, fie un altul pe care Dumnezeu îl va alege și îl va pune pe tron; pe scurt, orice creștin ortodox. Chrysobul al țarului Ioan Alexandru din 1 decembrie 1347 pentru mănăstirea Sf. Nicolae de la Mraka * O versiune în limba franceză a fost publicată în Le monde byzantin du XIIIe au XVe siècle : anciennes ou nouvelles formes d'impérialité, éd. par M.-H.
The overall character of the Black Sea region has been defined over time in various ways. For spe... more The overall character of the Black Sea region has been defined over time in various ways. For specialists in economy and trade, it has represented a region at the crossroads of the trade routes between Europe and Asia; for political scientists and historians, it has been a space of confrontation between the great terrestrial and naval powers; for the scholars attentive to its cultural dimensions, it has been a contact zone, a space of interaction between different peoples, religions and cultures. These attempts at a definition all revolve around an essential (and ambivalent) feature of the Black Sea as a factor of connection, a bridge, and at the same time a border, a dividing line between Europe and Asia, between the Baltic and the Mediterranean region. In this fluctuation between the two, the predominance of one over the other ("bridge" or "border") has depended on a number of factors, first among them the distribution of power relations in the region. This vol...
The article aims to trace the veneration of St. Philothea and the metamorphoses
it underwent. It ... more The article aims to trace the veneration of St. Philothea and the metamorphoses it underwent. It began in her fatherland and her pious life. The Life of the saint woman is very complex. She was a pious lady who married but remained immaculate; she rested in isolation and tutored the local Christians; after her death she was venerated as saint and attracted the attention of the believers in her country. So, it is not easy to classify her, following the usual criteria. A crucial moment for the veneration of St. Philothea was the translatio of her relics to Tarnovo. It was an act of the Bulgarian Tsar Kaloyan and, when they arrived in the capital city of the Second Bulgarian Empire, St. Philothea became a part of the sacred Christian pantheon of the state. This was the time when the main hagiological texts for their veneration were prepared: Vitae, divine services, panegyrics. It is to stress that the holy women formed a special element of the mentioned state pantheon: the so-called Imagines Virginis who presented a type of substitution of the veneration of Our Lady as intercessor and defender of the Empire and of the City of Constantinople. After the fall of Tarnovo, the relics of St. Paraskeva, of St. Empress Theophanò and of St. Philothea were transferred to Vidin. After the fall of the traditional capital, their movement could be seen as a type of translatio Imperii from Tarnovo to Vidin and then to Serbia. This event produced one of the most interesting texts about St. Philothea – her panegyric by the metropolitan Joasaph of Vidin.
Late Byzantium Reconsidered offers a unique collection of essays analysing the artistic achieveme... more Late Byzantium Reconsidered offers a unique collection of essays analysing the artistic achievements of Mediterranean centres linked to the Byzantine Empire between 1261, when the Palaiologan dynasty re-conquered Constantinople, and the decades after 1453, when the Ottomans took the city, marking the end of the Empire. These centuries were characterised by the rising of socio-political elites, in regions such as Crete, Italy, Laconia, Serbia, and Trebizond, that, while sharing cultural and artistic values influenced by the Byzantine Empire, were also developing innovative and original visual and cultural standards. The comparative and interdisciplinary framework offered by this volume aims to challenge established ideas concerning the late Byzantine period such as decline, renewal, and innovation. By examining specific case studies of cultural production from within and outside Byzantium, the chapters in this volume highlight the intrinsic innovative nature of the socio-cultural identities active in the late medieval and early modern Mediterranean vis-à-vis the rhetorical assumption of the cultural contraction of the Byzantine Empire.
Ce numéro des Cahiers du Monde russe s’ouvre sur un ensemble d’articles qui ont deux traits en co... more Ce numéro des Cahiers du Monde russe s’ouvre sur un ensemble d’articles qui ont deux traits en commun : ils évoquent l’histoire des juifs en Russie du XVIIIe au XXe siècle ; ils portent tous sur des aspects peu connus de cette histoire, dont certains commencent à peine d’être défrichés. En effet, que ce soit l'étude anthropologique et sociologique du shtetl ou des communautés juives dans la Podolie du XVIIIe siècle, celle de l'historiographie juive au début du XXe siècle, celle des migrations des juifs russes vers la Pologne peu avant cette période ou celle d’un écrivain russo-juif atteint par l'antisémitisme, ce sont autant d’aperçus sur un monde encore largement méconnu et qui relèvent aussi bien de l’histoire proprement dite, de l’ethnologie, de la sociologie, de l’étude littéraire. Enfin, ce monde juif y est généralement montré dans son interface avec la société qui l’entoure, tant il est vrai qu’on ne saurait l’étudier que dans son interpénétration avec son environn...
The normative function of culture is precisely what builds and preserves the community, while the... more The normative function of culture is precisely what builds and preserves the community, while the function of development renews it and supplies it with a perspective towards the future. This chapter aims to point out some aspects of them that need to be considered in order to achieve the tasks of the study. It discusses the following group of concrete examples from texts, which exhibit an equating of the concept of Law and Faith that situates both of them at the core of a society's identity-defining values. The chapter make some general remarks on the topic of law and religious faith. It shows that language and professional jargon, but also law, are equally identity characteristics of every civilisation. The chapter aims to clarify this aspect of interrelations between language and law based on a study of the legal vocabulary of the mediaeval Bulgarian state.Keywords: Byzantine law; identity; language; mediaeval Bulgarian state
This periodical began publication in 1935. Two fascicles are issued each year, which contain arti... more This periodical began publication in 1935. Two fascicles are issued each year, which contain articles, shorter notes and book reviews about the Christian East, that is, whatever concerns the theology, history, patrology, liturgy, archaeology and canon law of the Christian East, or whatever is closely connected therewith. The annual contribution is € 46,00 in Italy, and € 58,00 or USD 76,00 outside Italy. The entire series is still in print and can be supplied on demand. Subscription should be paid by a check made to Pontificio Istituto Orientale or a deposit to ccp. 34269001.
I can say without any doubt that the appearance of Maya Petrova-Taneva’s book is an event in Bulg... more I can say without any doubt that the appearance of Maya Petrova-Taneva’s book is an event in Bulgarian mediaeval studies, not only in literary and hagiographic fields, but also in areas related to pursuing political ideology and legitimizing power through holiness. It is a comprehensive and exhaustive study of the veneration of a saint, who not only was the wife of one of the most remarkable Roman basileis, but through the presence of her relics in Tărnovgrade has attracted the attention of probably the most remarkable figure of 14th century Bulgaria – Patriarch Euthymius – and enters the pantheon of the Second Bulgarian Empire as an “supporter to the tsars”. The book is constructed in a classical way: the study of the life of Empress Theophano preceded the presentation of her worship in the Empire, and then in Bulgaria and Serbia, after which the author proceeded to present the sources for the cult (first prologues, then Vita of the deacon Nicholas and the service of St. Patriarch ...
Il est possible d’etudier l’histoire, le passe en general, en suivant des methodes differentes. C... more Il est possible d’etudier l’histoire, le passe en general, en suivant des methodes differentes. Certaines de ces methodes sont liees a la conception du temps, caracteristique pour une culture, d’autres a l’existence d’une attitude religieuse, emotionnelle ou identitaire envers le passe. Nous voudrions presenter ici nos observations sur la conception du temps et de l’histoire dans le milieu culturel et social des Protobulgares au moment de la transition de leur Etat au IXe siecle de la religion paienne en Christianisme orthodoxe. Ce n’est pas le temps comme phenomene qui fera objet de notre etude actuelle, mais sa conception philosophique ou theologique, autrement dit la vision du temps qu’une societe cree. Cette vision est tres importante pour l’etude d’une culture ou d’une civilisation car c’est le temps qui est au cœur de la conscience de la societe et des conceptions de tous les phenomenes naturels. La liaison entre la conception de temps et la religion est hors de doute. Le cale...
Spre veșnica amintire a lui Gilbert Dagron După moartea Majestății Mele, indiferent cine va fi ur... more Spre veșnica amintire a lui Gilbert Dagron După moartea Majestății Mele, indiferent cine va fi urmașul Majestății Mele, fie dintre copiii Majestății Mele, fie dintre rude, fie un altul pe care Dumnezeu îl va alege și îl va pune pe tron; pe scurt, orice creștin ortodox. Chrysobul al țarului Ioan Alexandru din 1 decembrie 1347 pentru mănăstirea Sf. Nicolae de la Mraka * O versiune în limba franceză a fost publicată în Le monde byzantin du XIIIe au XVe siècle : anciennes ou nouvelles formes d'impérialité, éd. par M.-H.
The overall character of the Black Sea region has been defined over time in various ways. For spe... more The overall character of the Black Sea region has been defined over time in various ways. For specialists in economy and trade, it has represented a region at the crossroads of the trade routes between Europe and Asia; for political scientists and historians, it has been a space of confrontation between the great terrestrial and naval powers; for the scholars attentive to its cultural dimensions, it has been a contact zone, a space of interaction between different peoples, religions and cultures. These attempts at a definition all revolve around an essential (and ambivalent) feature of the Black Sea as a factor of connection, a bridge, and at the same time a border, a dividing line between Europe and Asia, between the Baltic and the Mediterranean region. In this fluctuation between the two, the predominance of one over the other ("bridge" or "border") has depended on a number of factors, first among them the distribution of power relations in the region. This vol...
The article aims to trace the veneration of St. Philothea and the metamorphoses
it underwent. It ... more The article aims to trace the veneration of St. Philothea and the metamorphoses it underwent. It began in her fatherland and her pious life. The Life of the saint woman is very complex. She was a pious lady who married but remained immaculate; she rested in isolation and tutored the local Christians; after her death she was venerated as saint and attracted the attention of the believers in her country. So, it is not easy to classify her, following the usual criteria. A crucial moment for the veneration of St. Philothea was the translatio of her relics to Tarnovo. It was an act of the Bulgarian Tsar Kaloyan and, when they arrived in the capital city of the Second Bulgarian Empire, St. Philothea became a part of the sacred Christian pantheon of the state. This was the time when the main hagiological texts for their veneration were prepared: Vitae, divine services, panegyrics. It is to stress that the holy women formed a special element of the mentioned state pantheon: the so-called Imagines Virginis who presented a type of substitution of the veneration of Our Lady as intercessor and defender of the Empire and of the City of Constantinople. After the fall of Tarnovo, the relics of St. Paraskeva, of St. Empress Theophanò and of St. Philothea were transferred to Vidin. After the fall of the traditional capital, their movement could be seen as a type of translatio Imperii from Tarnovo to Vidin and then to Serbia. This event produced one of the most interesting texts about St. Philothea – her panegyric by the metropolitan Joasaph of Vidin.
Late Byzantium Reconsidered offers a unique collection of essays analysing the artistic achieveme... more Late Byzantium Reconsidered offers a unique collection of essays analysing the artistic achievements of Mediterranean centres linked to the Byzantine Empire between 1261, when the Palaiologan dynasty re-conquered Constantinople, and the decades after 1453, when the Ottomans took the city, marking the end of the Empire. These centuries were characterised by the rising of socio-political elites, in regions such as Crete, Italy, Laconia, Serbia, and Trebizond, that, while sharing cultural and artistic values influenced by the Byzantine Empire, were also developing innovative and original visual and cultural standards. The comparative and interdisciplinary framework offered by this volume aims to challenge established ideas concerning the late Byzantine period such as decline, renewal, and innovation. By examining specific case studies of cultural production from within and outside Byzantium, the chapters in this volume highlight the intrinsic innovative nature of the socio-cultural identities active in the late medieval and early modern Mediterranean vis-à-vis the rhetorical assumption of the cultural contraction of the Byzantine Empire.
Ce numéro des Cahiers du Monde russe s’ouvre sur un ensemble d’articles qui ont deux traits en co... more Ce numéro des Cahiers du Monde russe s’ouvre sur un ensemble d’articles qui ont deux traits en commun : ils évoquent l’histoire des juifs en Russie du XVIIIe au XXe siècle ; ils portent tous sur des aspects peu connus de cette histoire, dont certains commencent à peine d’être défrichés. En effet, que ce soit l'étude anthropologique et sociologique du shtetl ou des communautés juives dans la Podolie du XVIIIe siècle, celle de l'historiographie juive au début du XXe siècle, celle des migrations des juifs russes vers la Pologne peu avant cette période ou celle d’un écrivain russo-juif atteint par l'antisémitisme, ce sont autant d’aperçus sur un monde encore largement méconnu et qui relèvent aussi bien de l’histoire proprement dite, de l’ethnologie, de la sociologie, de l’étude littéraire. Enfin, ce monde juif y est généralement montré dans son interface avec la société qui l’entoure, tant il est vrai qu’on ne saurait l’étudier que dans son interpénétration avec son environn...
The normative function of culture is precisely what builds and preserves the community, while the... more The normative function of culture is precisely what builds and preserves the community, while the function of development renews it and supplies it with a perspective towards the future. This chapter aims to point out some aspects of them that need to be considered in order to achieve the tasks of the study. It discusses the following group of concrete examples from texts, which exhibit an equating of the concept of Law and Faith that situates both of them at the core of a society's identity-defining values. The chapter make some general remarks on the topic of law and religious faith. It shows that language and professional jargon, but also law, are equally identity characteristics of every civilisation. The chapter aims to clarify this aspect of interrelations between language and law based on a study of the legal vocabulary of the mediaeval Bulgarian state.Keywords: Byzantine law; identity; language; mediaeval Bulgarian state
This periodical began publication in 1935. Two fascicles are issued each year, which contain arti... more This periodical began publication in 1935. Two fascicles are issued each year, which contain articles, shorter notes and book reviews about the Christian East, that is, whatever concerns the theology, history, patrology, liturgy, archaeology and canon law of the Christian East, or whatever is closely connected therewith. The annual contribution is € 46,00 in Italy, and € 58,00 or USD 76,00 outside Italy. The entire series is still in print and can be supplied on demand. Subscription should be paid by a check made to Pontificio Istituto Orientale or a deposit to ccp. 34269001.
I can say without any doubt that the appearance of Maya Petrova-Taneva’s book is an event in Bulg... more I can say without any doubt that the appearance of Maya Petrova-Taneva’s book is an event in Bulgarian mediaeval studies, not only in literary and hagiographic fields, but also in areas related to pursuing political ideology and legitimizing power through holiness. It is a comprehensive and exhaustive study of the veneration of a saint, who not only was the wife of one of the most remarkable Roman basileis, but through the presence of her relics in Tărnovgrade has attracted the attention of probably the most remarkable figure of 14th century Bulgaria – Patriarch Euthymius – and enters the pantheon of the Second Bulgarian Empire as an “supporter to the tsars”. The book is constructed in a classical way: the study of the life of Empress Theophano preceded the presentation of her worship in the Empire, and then in Bulgaria and Serbia, after which the author proceeded to present the sources for the cult (first prologues, then Vita of the deacon Nicholas and the service of St. Patriarch ...
Il est possible d’etudier l’histoire, le passe en general, en suivant des methodes differentes. C... more Il est possible d’etudier l’histoire, le passe en general, en suivant des methodes differentes. Certaines de ces methodes sont liees a la conception du temps, caracteristique pour une culture, d’autres a l’existence d’une attitude religieuse, emotionnelle ou identitaire envers le passe. Nous voudrions presenter ici nos observations sur la conception du temps et de l’histoire dans le milieu culturel et social des Protobulgares au moment de la transition de leur Etat au IXe siecle de la religion paienne en Christianisme orthodoxe. Ce n’est pas le temps comme phenomene qui fera objet de notre etude actuelle, mais sa conception philosophique ou theologique, autrement dit la vision du temps qu’une societe cree. Cette vision est tres importante pour l’etude d’une culture ou d’une civilisation car c’est le temps qui est au cœur de la conscience de la societe et des conceptions de tous les phenomenes naturels. La liaison entre la conception de temps et la religion est hors de doute. Le cale...
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it underwent. It began in her fatherland and her pious life. The Life of the saint
woman is very complex. She was a pious lady who married but remained immaculate;
she rested in isolation and tutored the local Christians; after her death
she was venerated as saint and attracted the attention of the believers in her
country. So, it is not easy to classify her, following the usual criteria.
A crucial moment for the veneration of St. Philothea was the translatio of her
relics to Tarnovo. It was an act of the Bulgarian Tsar Kaloyan and, when they
arrived in the capital city of the Second Bulgarian Empire, St. Philothea became
a part of the sacred Christian pantheon of the state. This was the time when the
main hagiological texts for their veneration were prepared: Vitae, divine services,
panegyrics. It is to stress that the holy women formed a special element of the
mentioned state pantheon: the so-called Imagines Virginis who presented a type
of substitution of the veneration of Our Lady as intercessor and defender of the
Empire and of the City of Constantinople.
After the fall of Tarnovo, the relics of St. Paraskeva, of St. Empress Theophanò
and of St. Philothea were transferred to Vidin. After the fall of the traditional
capital, their movement could be seen as a type of translatio Imperii from Tarnovo
to Vidin and then to Serbia. This event produced one of the most interesting
texts about St. Philothea – her panegyric by the metropolitan Joasaph of Vidin.
it underwent. It began in her fatherland and her pious life. The Life of the saint
woman is very complex. She was a pious lady who married but remained immaculate;
she rested in isolation and tutored the local Christians; after her death
she was venerated as saint and attracted the attention of the believers in her
country. So, it is not easy to classify her, following the usual criteria.
A crucial moment for the veneration of St. Philothea was the translatio of her
relics to Tarnovo. It was an act of the Bulgarian Tsar Kaloyan and, when they
arrived in the capital city of the Second Bulgarian Empire, St. Philothea became
a part of the sacred Christian pantheon of the state. This was the time when the
main hagiological texts for their veneration were prepared: Vitae, divine services,
panegyrics. It is to stress that the holy women formed a special element of the
mentioned state pantheon: the so-called Imagines Virginis who presented a type
of substitution of the veneration of Our Lady as intercessor and defender of the
Empire and of the City of Constantinople.
After the fall of Tarnovo, the relics of St. Paraskeva, of St. Empress Theophanò
and of St. Philothea were transferred to Vidin. After the fall of the traditional
capital, their movement could be seen as a type of translatio Imperii from Tarnovo
to Vidin and then to Serbia. This event produced one of the most interesting
texts about St. Philothea – her panegyric by the metropolitan Joasaph of Vidin.