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International Summer School historic doctrines of Russians, Serbs and Bul- in Palaeoslavic Studies and garians. Also sought are the points of inter- Medieval Studies, section between the Orthodox Slavic histo- () riography and other historiographic traditions 26 July - 8 August 2010 mainly the Catholic one. This presupposes various types of studies: editions and expla- The Tryavna Summer School was part of nations of medieval chronicles, analyses of a major project entitled History and Historicism historical documents in Bulgarian and foreign in the Orthodox Slavic Realm: Study of Ideas for His- primary sources, monographs on the admi- tory. The project and the school were funded nistrative written data on the First Bulgarian by the National Science Fund of Bulgaria and Kingdom (7th -11 th century) and even research organised mainly by a recently established in modern fiction and poetry related to history. research consortium chaired by Anna-Maria The International School in Tryavna allied the Totomanova, Doctor of Philology and Pro- scholarly efforts of delegates from a number fessor at the Faculty for Slavic Studies at the of universities, research centres and academic University. associations: the Slavic Studies Departments at the universities of Sofia and The project is focused on developing the (Bulgaria), Krakòw and £ódŸ (), Saint concept of history among the Orthodox Petersburg and Ivanovo () and Venice and its relation to the Byzantine historiogra- () as well as certain research institutes at phic model. It is concerned also with the traces the academies of sciences of Bulgaria, Russia of the medieval perception in the modern and Serbia. historic 195 Uncommon Culture CONFERENCE

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The courses were intended for young scholars, challenge before the social sciences and the i.e. PhD students and postdoctoral resear- humanities. The interdisciplinarity of the chers. They had the opportunity to be present School was supported by the presentations of at lectures in various fields - History, Biblical Associate Professor Alexander Kiosev (Sofia), Studies, Literary Theory, Linguistics, Philoso- Professor Kiril Maximovich (), Senior phy, Cultural Studies and History of Art. One Research Associate Nina Gagova (Sofia), Se- of the important accents was placed on the nior Research Associate Kotseva (Sofia) Old Testament books and the Biblical apo- and Associate Professor Maria Spasova (Veli- crypha in the Slavic environment. It is worth ko Tarnovo). mentioning here some of the most interesting The idea of the Tryavna Summer School was lectures - those of Professor Alexander mainly to gather scholars from various fields Naumov (Krakow, Venice) on the Biblical text and to establish or strengthen contacts among as a model and material and of Professor Ta- colleagues from different countries and re- tyana Slavova (Sofia) on the Octateuch in the gions. And Tryavna proved to be the best place Archival Chronograph. Yet the majority of the for this as it is a which preserved a Bul- papers were within the historical context of garian National Revival appearance and me- the project. Specialists in Byzantine Studies mory of its glorious history. The skillfully and Palaeoslavic Studies presented the most organised programme was planned for a visit recent discoveries in the field of medieval sometime to a couple of the most remarkable historiography. Associate Professor Vasya Ve- medieval monuments in Bulgaria such as the linova (Sofia) tracked the reception of the By- churches in Veliko Tarnovo and Arbanassi. By zantine chronicles in Bulgaria, Professor An- seeing artefacts of the and of the na-Maria Totomanova (Sofia) situated the 19th century, participants had a diachronic chronicle of Julius Africanus in the Slavic view of history and commented on the historiographic tradition, and Associate Pro- modern perspective on the ideas of studying fessor Rostislav Stankov (Sofia) dealt with the history. Old Bulgarian translation of the Chronicle of Georgios Hamartolos and of the Chrono- More information available at: graph. Professor Tibor Zivkovic () http://cyrillomethodiana.uni-http://cyrillomethodiana.uni-sofia.bg/index.php/the-news/98 presented the new edition and study of the sofia.bg/index.php/the-news/98 Chronicle of the Priest of Duklja and analysed Just two of the lectures are published online at the sources used by Constantine VII Porphy-http://cyrillomethodiana.uni-sofia.bg/index.php/mdocs/cat_view/56----2010http://cyrillomethodiana.uni- rogennetos as representative of Balkan his- sofia.bg/index.php/mdocs/cat_view/56---- tory. Professor Dmitry Polyviannyi (Ivanovo) 2010 and Professor (Sofia) shared Irina Kuzidova-Karadzhinova, PhD, Research their theoretical vision of, respectively, the me- Associate at the Institute of Literature at BAS; dieval orthodox historiography and, from Ekaterina Dikova, PhD, Research Associate at the a more modern perspective of historicism as a Central Library of BAS challenge

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