New study on 18th and 19th c. by a member of our Society

Plamen Antov. Love and Fatherland. Studies on Bulgarian Revival Literature and Culture. Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Literature. Sofia, BAS Publishing House “Prof. Marin Drinov”, 2024. – 358 рр. (ISBN 9786192454050)   Although composed of separate articles, this book builds a complete (monographic) “inner space”, where literature is thought оf as the full-fledged philosophy…

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Debating Confessions: Armenian Polemical Literature in the Early Eighteenth Century

Anna Ohanjanyan (Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts “Matenadaran”, Yerevan, Armenia, Pontica Magna program fellow at the NEC) will present a public lecture: Debating Confessions: Armenian Polemical Literature in the Early Eighteenth Century The early eighteenth century marked for the Armenians the apogee of the confessional age. In the two-fold geopolitical settings under the rule of…

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The Spirit of 1776: Polish and Dalmatian Declarations of Philosophical Independence

Larry Wolff (Boston) The Spirit of 1776: Polish and Dalmatian Declarations of Philosophical Independence Summary   The article compares some texts and cultural phenomena from Eastern Europe or East Central Europe, which would correlate cultural manifestations in the region with the distant trans-Atlantic developments emphasizing the principle and agenda of national independence At 1776 Ignacy…

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