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2018, BYZANTIUM AND THE SLAVS: MEDIEVAL AND MODERN PERCEPTIONS AND RECEPTIONS
Byzantium and the Slavs, Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium "Days of Justinian I" Skopje 17-18 November 2017 "Euro-Balkan" University - Skopje 2018
LUTHER 500 (1517-2017): The alleged Continuity between Bogomilism and Protestantism (78-87)The author examines the connection between beliefs of the Bogomils and the ideas of the Reformation. Controversially, the former have been called "the precursors of the Reformation" and even "the first Protestants in Europe". These claims will be investigated here in the light of the subject of free will. Both the similarities and differences between bogomilian thinking and the ideas of the most important reformer, Martin Luther, will be discussed.
BYZANTIUM AND THE SLAVS: MEDIEVAL AND MODERN PERCEPTIONS AND RECEPTIONS. Proceedings оf the 5th International Symposium “Days of Justinian I” Skopje, 17-18 November, 2017. Edited by Mitko B. Panov. Skopje, 2018
Byzantium and the Slavs: Medieval and Modern Perceptions and Receptions, a cura di M. B. Panov, Skopje 2018 (Proceedings of 5th International Symposium “days of Justinian I”, Skopje, 17-18 November, 2017)
Down with the Emperor, Hail to the Despot. Epirote Particularism at the Dusk of Stephen Dušan's Empire, in Byzantium and the Slavs: Medieval and Modern Perceptions and Receptions, a cura di M. B. Panov, Skopje 2018, pp. 96-107.2018 •
Immediately after the death of tsar Stephen IV of Serbia (1355), the empire he had forged quickly split in a number of autonomous principalities, which were ruled by his former generals and by prominent member of the Serbian aristocracy. Although most of the territories formerly held by Stephen IV followed approximately the same pattern when the secession from the Serbian mainland occurred, Epirus was a special case. Epirote events traced their roots deeply in the history of the region and can be explained only by a comparison with the period of the independent local despotate (1204-1337). In fact, in 1367 Epirus had reverted to its former condition, since three lordships were installed along its borders. Though it was not until 1416 that the old principality was restored under the government of a single ruler, the separation of the region from the body of the successor states of the Serbian empire was permanent. Local elites had gradually developed separatist feelings during the years of the despotate and a revival of the old political traditions was simply the most natural outcome when the strong leadership of Stephen IV was replaced by the feeble government of his son Stephen V.
The paper aims to accommodate in the academic discourse, within the theory of response, ineffable concepts of exterioriation of the Liturgy through brickwork ornaments used at the apse as material sign of inner vision / prayer. These concepts of visual screening are at the very centre of the Byzantine altars. The analysis of churches built at the very end of 13th and the beginning of the 14th-century in Ohrid helps to assemble a cohesive group of churches where brick was used as main building material in the same time as in Constantinople and other building centers of Byzantium. The reception of the Constantinopolitan model was given a symbolic meaning. In this sense, brickwork models were translated form Constantinople to the architecture of Ohrid, what especially can be shown on the example of the apse of the Holy Mother of God Perivleptos Church. As a specific wall-membrane made of brickwork cloisonné, the east facade of the Perivleptos church in Ohrid reveals on its exterior surface made of brick the hidden mystery performed beyond the altar.
The Byzantine seals found in the fortress of ‘Kale’ in Skopje are the largest collection of such items in the Republic of Macedonia. It includes some eighty lead seals discovered in archaeological excavations in the period between 2007 and 2012. This collection represents an important and authentic epigraphic source shedding additional light on the history of Byzantine and pre-Ottoman Skopje and its surrounds. The prominence of the Byzantine fortress of ‘Kale’ at Skopje was due to its excellent strategic position, on the crossroad of the Morava-Vardar corridor and it was connected with the Adriatic coast on the west, the Via Militaris on the east, and the Via Egnatia on the southwest. As it happens, the chronological sequence was frequently interrupted. Last moment finds indicate that this collection of almost eighty Byzantine seals is neither final nor exhaustive. There follows a study supported by the Museum of Macedonia in Skopje and a catalogue of these rare sigillographic finds which aims to enrich Byzantine prosopography with new personalities; with new and hitherto unknown information, and a bulk of unique sfragistic data containing imperial, administrative, military and clerical representatives. The finds of Byzantine, Bulgarian and Venetian seals at the ‘Kale’ fortress are setting new frontiers for the medieval history of the Balkans and the Byzantine world.
Featuring my paper THE LIMITANEI IN BELISARIUS ARMY.
The Byzantine Missionary activity and its legacy in Europe
СВРТУВАЊЕ КОН СРЕДНОВЕКОВНОТО МИНАТО – СЛУЧАЈОТ НА ГРЦИЈА. ПОЛИТИКА, ИДЕНТИТЕТ, ИСТОРИЈА,ОБРАЗОВАНИЕ, ТЕРИТОРИJА2017 •
The creation of the Modern Greek state in 1830 meant the beginning of the building of a new identity in the Balkan region. Greek population, as well, the rest of the Balkans did not have developed ethnic consciousness. Some of the Greeks considered themselves as Romeion, some as the Greeks, and the rest one as Hellenes. Politicians and the intellectuals of the newborn Greek kingdom had been under strong influence of the western progressive ideas. So, taking into the account the behavior of the western intellectuals to the Byzantine past, it was quite understandable that there was no room for Byzantium to be a part of the Greek national identity, at the very early times of its creation. However, the speech of Ioannis Kolettis in 1844 and his introducing of Megali idea, has changed the approach of the Greek intellectuals towards the Byzantine past. Although the most prominent Greek intellectuals, Konstantionos Paparrigopoulos or Spyridon Zambelios, for example, at the early phase of their works had not considered Byzantium as a part of the Modern Greek identity, they changed their views under the influence of Kolettis’s speech. Byzantium became an unavoidable part of the Modern Greek identity.
Immediately after the death of tsar Stephen IV of Serbia (1355), the empire he had forged quickly split in a number of autonomous principalities, which were ruled by his former generals and by prominent member of the Serbian aristocracy. Although most of the territories formerly held by Stephen IV followed approximately the same pattern when the secession from the Serbian mainland occurred, Epirus was a special case. Epirote events traced their roots deeply in the history of the region and can be explained only by a comparison with the period of the independent local despotate (1204-1337). In fact, in 1367 Epirus had reverted to its former condition, since three lordships were installed along its borders. Though it was not until 1416 that the old principality was restored under the government of a single ruler, the separation of the region from the body of the successor states of the Serbian empire was permanent. Local elites had gradually developed separatist feelings during the years of the despotate and a revival of the old political traditions was simply the most natural outcome when the strong leadership of Stephen IV was replaced by the feeble government of his son Stephen V.
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7th International symposium Days of Justinian
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In "The Byzantine Missionary Activity and Its Legacy in Europe", ed. M.Panov, Skopje: Euro-Balkan University, 2017, pp. 19-28.
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