Front matter

Abstract

Volume 79 of the Annual of Sofia University “Kliment Ohridski” — Faculty of History (1988) comprises four scholarly articles addressing diverse historical themes and periods. Lilia Simeonova analyses contemporary West European Byzantinology and its debates on the conceptual continuity between Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Georgi Sotirov examines the relations between the Frankish state and the Polabian–Baltic Slavs in the ninth century, focusing on their political and cultural interactions. Plamen Mitev studies France’s role in the export of wool from the Bulgarian lands during the eighteenth century and its broader economic implications. Elka Drosneva explores the representation of Lyuben Karavelov in Soviet encyclopaedic publications and university courses in the humanities, revealing the ideological framing of the Bulgarian National Revival. The volume reflects the thematic and methodological diversity of the research conducted at the Faculty of History during the 1980s.