Boyka Ilieva The image of Italy and Italians in the Bulgarian geography textbooks from the National Revival Summary The desire of the Bulgarians to be a part of the advanced European countries builds socio-political and cultural priorities of the Bulgarian National Revival. The socio-political duties are visible in the fight for clerical independence and…
Read MoreNadejda P. Alexandrova A “European” Gaze to the Turkish Province or What Do Ladies See Summary This paper tries to explore the modes of reversibility of the notion of Europeanness, which do not depend on some clear-cut opposition between Eastern-Western Europe but on dynamic relations, such as those between metropolis and province, culture and…
Read MoreAntoineta Balcheva Digital Era and Nation State Summary The basic interest of this paper is directed at the impact of the new digital era communication technologies on the national state, which to a large extent implies the effects the Internet, because of its capacity and its characteristics, has on the nation state. This concerns…
Read MoreTeodora Bakardjieva Ruse “great and multi-commercial” or is “Modern Ruschuk” really modern Summary Ruse has been labeled a modern city for decades, and the Ruse inhabitants has been defining themselves as modern people, as better Europeans than the other, even in crisis periods. The roots of this demonstrated modernity could be traced back to…
Read MoreRusana Beyleri Socio-linguistic Problems in Albanian Literature Summary The standardization process of the Modern Albanian, which has two main forms, the Tosk and the Gheg, has a long and diverse history during the XX C. It started with the Monastery Congress (Bitola, 1908) when the problem of the Albanian alphabet was finally solved after…
Read MoreRumiana Preshlenova Higher Education in Austro-Hungary and the Bulgarians 1879-1918. New Dispositions and New Opportunities Summary This paper explores the changes in the orientation of Bulgarian university students’ abroad during the period from the establishment of the first Bulgarian government and the First World War. It resumes the outcomes of a research project enhancing…
Read MoreOgnyan Kovachev With a Well-equipped Eye: Visual Techniques and Narrative Optics in the 18th and 19th Centuries Summary This paper offers a parallel discussion of various visual techniques and devices, invented during the XVIII – XIX centuries, and the simultaneously changing narrative approaches and modes of literary representation. Special attention is paid to such…
Read MoreEvelina Razhdavichka First Plovdiv Sample Fair and the ‘Wonders’ of the Modern World Summary Following the nineteenth-century “fashion” of world and national fairs, in 1892 Bulgaria hosted its first National sample fair. Its aims were to introduce the home industry to the world and at the same time to show its citizens the international…
Read MoreDobrinka Parusheva Society, Technology, and Culture, or how the Balkans Meet Modernity Summary In this paper an attempt at linking notions society, technology and culture while locating them in the Balkans from mid-19th to the mid-20th century has been made. What happened during this period could be described as Balkans’ meeting with European modernity.…
Read MoreSvetla Cherpokova “Under the systematical creation …” (A look on the alchemical elements in German literature at the end of the 18th century and in the beginning 19th century) Summary The text investigate the problem of the alchemical cognition in Germany and its popularity during the last years of the 18th century and in…
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