Front matter and Authors

Abstract

Volume 106 is devoted to the celebration of several important anniversaries of the past of the Faculty of History at Sofia University: 134 years of University Readings in History; 102 years of the Department of Archaeology; 50 years of separate Faculty of History; 70 years of professional archival education, 20 years of the specialty of Archivistics and Documentary Studies at Sofia University. The introductory article by Prof. М. Markova, Dean of the Faculty of History, gives a brief and meaningful overview of the history of the faculty, its contributions to the development of Bulgarian historical knowledge and education, and to Bulgarian studies in general. Also introductory, in English text, is the article by Prof. H. Heppner, however, directed to the future of historical science. In the Articles and studies section there are chronological and thematic texts on a variety of topics: on the development of the specialty of Archivistics and Documentary Studies by Prof. An. Neykova; on the issues of staffing at the Faculty of History, by Prof. Ognyanov; Dr. Mukarzel published an article on the demon Lamashtu from the ancient Dvurechye; Dr. Tarhan discusses divination techniques from Ancient Mesopotamia. Several articles are devoted to problems of Balkan and Bulgarian history in the period of the Middle Ages and the Bulgarian Renaissance: on Bulgarian studies of Byzantine history by Prof. P. Schreiner; early Ottoman history through the text of Nicola Sagundino by Prof. Iv. Popova; and The Pirot Contributors in the 19th century by Prof. N. Manolova-Nikolova.

Noteworthy are also the four articles on the subject of recent and contemporary general history: on Vargas and the "yellow menace" by Dr. B. Miteva; on the USA and the Marshall Plan by Assoc. Prof. B. Stoyanov; on the problems of Argentina in the late 1980s and early 1990s by Assoc. Prof. G. Alexieva and "Mission Impossible" by Dr. Iv. Nikolova. The last two articles in the issue deal with important issues of state policy for the teaching of history in schools in the 5th grade by Assoc. Prof.  G. Yakimov and on the importance of intercultural museum education by Prof. М. Markova and Dr. E. Vitanova. At the end of p. 106 the authors are listed in the order of the published articles.