Vol. 107 No. 1 (2024): Annual of Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" - Faculty of History
The 2024 edition of the Annual of the Sofia University - Faculty of History is volume 107., which contains seven publications, double-blind peer reviewed, and organized for the first time in accordance with the decision of the Editorial board, in three sections: Articles and Studies; Debuts; Reviews.
In this volume, the first section includes research on events, personalities and processes from the 15th century to our present day. Very well established on rich source material, they are historical and historical-anthropological in nature. Issues covered include: the complex relationship between Byzantium and the Vatican in the first half of the 15th century; in connection with the signing of the union between the Eastern and Western Churches (Ivayla Popova, 0000-0002-8972-0455); the fruitful friendly relations between the two prominent Bulgarian educators Petko Slaveykov and Hristo Daskalov (Vladimir Terziev, 0000-0002-0890-3066); the functioning of the specific state institution in Bulgaria, established in 1942. on Jewish issues (Vladimir Stanev, 0000-0002-2226-3632; Daniela Tasheva, ORCID 0009-0007-1317-1772); fieldwork regarding the Kalogeros custom in the village. Meliki, Greece, in order to track and analyze the changes in the customary-ritual system both in the specific settlement community and in the context of the Balkan reality (Mira Markova, 0000-0002-2891-0917; Ina Pachamanova, 0009-0001-1913-2228); the analysis of a magical tale from Breznishko according to the method of Vladimir Propp, with a hypothesis of existing groups of coal miners and soldiers during the Ottoman period in this region of Western Bulgaria (Nadia Manolova-Nikolova, ORCID 0000-0001-9203-1864).
The Debuts section presents an extensive and well-argued study of the peculiarities of Sulla's dictatorship, with excellently analyzed historical sources (Alexander Moskov, ORCID 0009-0006-3985-8890). No less interesting are the two materials in the Reviews section, with youthfully enthusiastic ideas and impressions (Andoni Andreev, ORCID 0000-0001-9675-2159; Elitsa Nenova, ORCID 0000-0002-1289-7201).
