Anisava Miltenova Ana Stoykova at 70

Ана Стойкова на 70 години

• Summary/Abstract

  We recently celebrated the anniversary of the scientific activity of Prof. Ana Stoykova, highlighting her contributions and honoring them with due recognition and the highest appreciation. She was born on August 19, 1955, in Sofia. She graduated in Bulgarian Philology from Sofia State University (1978) and became a research associate (1993), an associate professor (1999), and a professor (2019) at the Institute for Literature of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. In 1993, she successfully defended a PhD thesis on the translations of the Physiologus in the South Slavic Literatures and in 2015 she was awarded the degree of Doctor of Sciences for her dissertation “The Passions of St. George the Victory-Bearer in South Slavic Medieval Tradition”.

  Subject: Reviews , Scientific Life

  Keywords: Reviews

Dilyana Radoslavova Elissaveta Moussakova at 70

Елисавета Мусакова на 70 години

• Summary/Abstract

  In November 2025, Professor Dr Elissaveta Moussakova, one of Bulgaria’s most erudite medievalists, marked her 70th anniversary. Here, we would like to take this opportunity to pay tribute to her outstanding achievements as an art historian with a rich portfolio and a scholar of international renown. Her research, publications, and academic activities have established her as a leading Bulgarian authority on medieval manuscript studies, and have substantially advanced scholarly knowledge of South Slavic book art. Combining methodologies from art history, codicology, palaeography, liturgical and textual studies, she has greatly advanced understanding of the artistic traditions that developed within the medieval Orthodox world and their relationship to Byzantine culture.

  Subject: Personalia , Scientific Life

  Keywords: Personalia

Tsvetan Vasilev Slavia Barlieva at 70

Славия Барлиева на 70 години

• Summary/Abstract

  In 2025, Prof. Dr Slavia Barlieva celebrated her seventieth birthday – an occasion not only for personal retrospection but also for the scholarly community to reflect on a substantial academic career.1 For more than four decades, her work has been closely connected to the development of Bulgarian mediaeval studies and the consolidation of the Cyril and Methodius Research Centre at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (CMRC). Through her research, teaching, project leadership and institutional engagement, she has established herself as a leading figure in contemporary Bulgarian humanities.

  Subject: Personalia , Essay , Book review , Scientific Life

  Keywords: Personalia

Tsenka Doseva , Tsvetana Raleva Veselka Želyazkova at 65

Веселка Желязкова на 65 години

• Summary/Abstract

  Второго августа 2025 года проф. к.ф.н. Веселке Желязковой исполнилось 65 лет. За долгие годы работы на поприще палеославистики и медиавистики проф. Желязкова зарекомендовала себя как серьезный исследователь славянской средневековой книжности. Круг ее научных интересов довольно широк и охватывает кирилломефодиевистику, библеистику (в основном проблематику Ветхого Завета), славянскую историческую лексикологию и лексикографию, славяно-византийскую текстологию и практику перевода, агиографию, издание средневековых славянских текстов. Ныне проф. В. Желязкова является директором Кирилло-Мефодиевского научного центра (КМНЦ) Болгарской академии наук (с 2024), главным редактором авторитетного журнала Palaeobulgarica/ Старобългаристика (с 2021), председателем Библейской комиссии при Международном комитете славистов (с 2025)

  Subject: Personalia , Essay , Book review , Scientific Life

  Keywords: Personalia

Ivan P. Petrov Cyrillic Manuscripts. Script and Language, Scribes and Collections. Edited by Antoaneta Granberg, Georgi R. Parpulov, and Andrea Radošević.

• Summary/Abstract

  Cyrillic Manuscripts. Script and Language, Scribes and Collections. Edited by Antoaneta Granberg, Georgi R. Parpulov, and Andrea Radošević. (Volume 12 of the Series South-East European History edited by Mihai Dragnea). New York-Berlin-Bruxelles-Chennai-Lausanne-Oxford: Peter Lang, 2025, xii, 216 pp. ISBN (PDF) 9781636676289, ISBN (ePUB) 9781636676296, ISBN (Hardcover) 9781636676272, DOI 10.3726/b21149

  Subject: Reviews , Essay , Book review , Scientific Life , Book-Review

  Keywords: Reviews

Elissaveta Moussakova CYRILLIC MANUSCRIPTS: FROM MEDIEVAL TO DIGITAL. Edited by Viacheslav Lytvynenko, Małgorzata Skowronek, Achim Rabus, Dimiter Peev, and Boban Petrovski

• Summary/Abstract

  CYRILLIC MANUSCRIPTS: FROM MEDIEVAL TO DIGITAL. Edited by Viacheslav Lytvynenko, Małgorzata Skowronek, Achim Rabus, Dimiter Peev, and Boban Petrovski (Vol. 16 of South-East European History, ed. by Mihai Dragnea). New York: Peter Lang, 2025, 320 pp. ISSN 2768- 7554 (print) ISSN 2768-7562 (online); ISBN 978-3-0343-5090-7 (hardback); E-ISBN 978-3-0343-5091-4 (E-PDF); E-ISBN 978-3-0343-5092-1 (EPUB) The volume, the second focusing on Slavonic manuscripts in the series “South- East European History”, is published on behalf of the Balkan History Association and is dedicated to the memory of “our dear colleague and friend Yavor Miltenov [1978–2023], whose scholarship inspired many!” The In memoriam entry by Ekaterina Dikova is as much emotional as it is precise in evaluating Yavor’s scholarly merits

  Subject: Reviews , Essay , Book review , Scientific Life , Book-Review

  Keywords: Reviews , Cyrillic , MANUSCRIPTS , Medieval , digital , Viacheslav lytvynenko , Małgorzata Skowronek , Achim Rabus , Dimiter Peev , Boban Petrovski

Maria Totomanova-Paneva Софийски псалтир. Песнивец на цар Йоан Александър. Текст: Цвето­ мира Данова, Ивона Карачорова. Автори на изследванията: Елисавета Мусакова, Цветомира Данова, Ивона Карачорова.

• Summary/Abstract

  Софийски псалтир. Песнивец на цар Йоан Александър. Текст: Цвето­ мира Данова, Ивона Карачорова. Автори на изследванията: Елисавета Мусакова, Цветомира Данова, Ивона Карачорова. София: Кирило-Методиевски научен център, 2025, 906 с. ISBN 978-954-9787-59-7, ISBN 978-954-9787-72-6 (epub), https://doi.org/10.59076/9787-2025-PIA.

  Subject: Reviews , Essay , Book review , Scientific Life , Book-Review

  Keywords: Reviews , Софийски псалтир , Песнивец , цар Йоан Александър , Текст , Цвето­мира Данова , Ивона Карачорова , Елисавета Мусакова , Цветомира Данова

Hristo Todorov Bulgarian Studies and Contemporary Humanities / Bulgarische Stu- dien und zeitgenössische Geisteswissenschaften / Българистиката и съвременните хуманитарни науки. Editors: Christian Voß & Lyubka Lipcheva-Prandzheva

Отзиви

• Summary/Abstract

  Bulgarian Studies and Contemporary Humanities / Bulgarische Studien und zeitgenössische Geisteswissenschaften / Българистиката и съвременните хуманитарни науки. Editors: Christian Voß & Lyubka Lipcheva-Prandzheva (Volume 49 of the series Studies on Language and Culture in Central and Eastern Europe). Berlin / Bruxelles / Chennai / Lausanne / New York / Oxford: Peter Lang, 351 p. ISBN ISSN 1868-2936 ; ISBN 978-3-631-93467-8 (Print) ; ISBN 978-3-631-93556-9 (ePDF) ; ISBN 978-3- 631-93557-6 (ePUB) ; DOI 10.3726/b23546.

  Subject: Reviews , Essay , Book review , Scientific Life , Book-Review

  Keywords: Review

Dilyana Radoslavova New Books

Нови книги

• Summary/Abstract

  NEW BOOKS

  Subject: New books , Essay , Book review , Scientific Life , Review , Bibliography , General Reference Works , Book-Review

  Keywords: New books

Ivan I. Iliev Diligentia et perseverantia: Anissava Miltenova at 75

Анисава Милтенова на 75

• Summary/Abstract

  Anissava Miltenova at 75

  Subject: Language and Literature Studies , Essay|Book Review |Scientific Life , Scientific Life , Philology

  Keywords: Anisava Miltenova

Ivan P. Petrov Lora Taseva on her 65th birthday

Lora Taseva zum 65. Geburtstag

• Summary/Abstract

  Lora Taseva zum 65. Geburtstag

  Subject: Language and Literature Studies , Essay|Book Review |Scientific Life , Scientific Life , Philology

  Keywords: Lora Taseva

Margarita Kuyumdzhieva Principia ex scientia superiore: Elka Bakalova at 85

• Summary/Abstract

  In academic circles, Prof. Dr. Habil. Elka Bakalova, Corresponding Member of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, is widely known as an art historian and cultural anthropologist, long-time academic lecturer and expert in the field of preservation of cultural monuments. Her 85th birthday, celebrated at the end of 2023, is a good occasion to show her once again the deep respect that her rich scientific and public activity deserves at all times and without special pretext. In today’s Bulgaria, charismatic great academic intellectuals are so rare that we can only be happy and grateful as long as they are among us, because they are bearers of already disappearing moral values and scholarly talents and skills, being the last of the Mohicans of the humanities.

  Subject: Language and Literature Studies , Essay|Book Review |Scientific Life , Scientific Life , Philology

  Keywords: Elka Bakalova

Ivan P. Petrov Iskra Hristova-Šomova at 65

• Summary/Abstract

  Iskra Hristova-Šomova at 65

  Subject: Language and Literature Studies , Essay|Book Review |Scientific Life , Scientific Life , Philology

  Keywords: Iskra Hristova-Šomova

Krasimir Stanchev Риккардо Пиккио: гражданин наднациональной Respublica litterarum. К столетию со дня его рождения

Riccardo Picchio: a citizen of the supranational Respublica Litterarum. To the centenary of his birth

• Summary/Abstract

  Риккардо Пиккио: гражданин наднациональной Respublica litterarum. К столетию со дня его рождения (Riccardo Picchio: a citizen of the supranational Respublica Litterarum. To the centenary of his birth)

  Subject: Language and Literature Studies , Essay|Book Review |Scientific Life , Cultural Essay , Obituary , Scientific Life , Philology

  Keywords: Риккардо Пиккио

Rumyana Zlatanova Das 100-jährige Jubiläum von Rudolf Aitzetmüller

The 100th anniversary of Rudolf Aitzetmüller

• Summary/Abstract

  Das 100-jährige Jubiläum von Rudolf Aitzetmüller (The 100th anniversary of Rudolf Aitzetmüller)

  Subject: Language and Literature Studies , Essay|Book Review |Scientific Life , Cultural Essay , Obituary , Scientific Life , Philology

  Keywords: Rudolf Aitzetmüller

Editorial Board Scripta & e-Scripta Tabula Gratulatoria in Honor of Prof. William Veder

Tabula Gratulatoria в чест на проф. Уйлям Федер

• Summary/Abstract

  Achim Rabus (Freiburg)
  Anatolij Turilov (Moscow)
  Antoaneta Granberg (Gothenburg)
  David Birnbaum (Pittsburgh, PA)
  Dmitriy Bulanin (Sankt Petersburg)
  Jürgen Fuchsbauer (Insbruck)
  Karine Åkerman Sarkisian (Uppsala)
  Lara Sels (Leuven)
  M.A. Johnson (Columbus, Ohio)
  Margaret Dimitrova (Sofia)
  Per Ambrosiani (Umeå)
  Petko Petkov (Sofia)
  Predrag Matejic (Columbus, Ohio)
  Ralph Cleminson (Oxford)
  Roland Marti (Saarbrücken)
  Rostislav Stankov (Sofia)
  Săbka Bogdanova (Sofia)
  Sebastian Kempgen (Bamberg)
  Svetlina Nikolova (Sofia)
  Tsenka Doseva (Sofia)
  Tsvetanka Raleva (Sofia)
  Veselin Panayotov (Shumen)
  Veselka Željazkova (Sofia)
  Yavor Miltenov (Sofia)

  Subject: Language and Literature Studies , Essay|Book Review |Scientific Life , Scientific Life , Philology

  Keywords: William Veder

Stefan Peev Conference “Book and Script. Tradition and Modernity,” April, 8-9, 2022, Sofia

Стефан Пеев. Конференция „Книга и шрифт. Традиция и съвременност”, 8-9 април 2022 г., София

• Summary/Abstract

  The article provides a thorough review of the presented authors and reports during the scientific conference “Book and Script. Tradition and Modernity”. The scientific conference held on the 8th and 9th of April, 2022, is the first attempt of its kind for an interdisciplinary approach to examine the development of books and scripts from a historical and theoretical aspect. Twenty four papers were presented during the conference from the following institutions: Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, National Academy of Arts, Plovdiv University “Paisii Hilendarski”, Southwestern University “Neofit Rilski”, UniBit (University of Library Science and Information Technology), New Bulgarian University, Institute of Bulgarian Language at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, National Library “St. Cyril and Methodius”, Regional Library “P. Pavlovich” (Silistra), University of Zurich, Typeflow (Rijeka). The main topics during the conference were the script origin among Bulgarians; the early Slavic printed books; scripts and manuscripts; the Revival book and its characteristics; books and fonts in modern times; libraries, books and modern approaches in describing them. There was a general consensus that the interdisciplinary approach opens up new fields and horizons for research in the field of books and scripts.

  Subject: Language and Literature Studies , Essay|Book Review |Scientific Life , Applied Linguistics , Studies of Literature , Scientific Life , Philology

  Keywords: book , printed book , Revival book , manuscript , manuscript book , Cyrillic Script , Glagolitic script , script , font , print , typography , paper , illustrations

Anisava Miltenova , Tanya Ivanova-Sullivan Prof. William Veder Turns 80

Уйлям Федер на 80 години

• Summary/Abstract

  This year we are celebrating the 80th birthday of Prof. William Veder, a well- known Dutch Slavist and scholar of Bulgarian studies, a specialist in textology and palaeo-Slavic studies and an author of more than 200 publications. Prof. Veder was born in Amsterdam and after the completion of his secondary education in Berkeley, USA (1960) and Berlin (1961), he graduated with a degree in Slavic philology from Utrecht University (1971). Since early on, he showed a particular interest in Bulgarian literature (Meesters der Bulgaarse vertelkunst. Amsterdam: Meulenhoff, 1971).

  Subject: Language and Literature Studies , Essay|Book Review |Scientific Life , Scientific Life , Philology

  Keywords: William Veder

Boyka Mircheva Svetlina Nikolova at 80

Светлина Николова на 80 години

• Summary/Abstract

  Prof. Svetlina Nikolova was born on January 1, 1942 in Vratsa. She graduated in Bulgarian philology from Sofia University (1964), where she won a competition for post-graduate studies in Old Bulgarian literature (1965–1967) and defended her dissertation on the subject of „Патеричните разкази в старата българска литература“ [Paterik Stories in Old Bulgarian Literature] and began her career at the Cyrillo-Methodian Commission (transformed into the Cyrillo-Methodian Research Centre at the Presidium of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in 1980). She was appointed director of the Centre in 1994.

  Subject: Language and Literature Studies , Essay|Book Review |Scientific Life , Scientific Life , Philology

  Keywords: Svetlina Nikolova

Diana Atanassova-Pencheva Predrag Matejić at 70

Предраг Матеич на 70 години

• Summary/Abstract

  Prof. Predrag Matejić, an emblematic figure in palaeoslavic studies globally, will turn 70 on August 2 this year. His name is connected with the remarkable institutions of the Resource Center for Medieval Slavic Studies and the Hilandar Research Library at Ohio State University in Columbus, USA, which he helped to be established and to be maintained for decades.

  Subject: Language and Literature Studies , Essay|Book Review |Scientific Life , Scientific Life , Philology

  Keywords: Predrag Matejić

Maria Totomanova-Paneva Tatyana Slavova at 65

Татяна Славова на 65 години

• Summary/Abstract

  Prof. Tatyana Slavova has just turned 65 this year. She was born on February 9, 1957 in Dimitrovrad and completed secondary school in Burgas in 1975. That same year, she enrolled in the Faculty of Slavic Philology at the St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia graduating with a master’s degree in Bulgarian philology in 1979. In 1980 she specialized in Old Bulgarian Glagolitic and Cyrillic palaeography and epigraphy supervised by Prof. Ivan Dobrev (then still associate professor). This research resulted in her doctoral thesis which she defended in 1985 on the subject of „Преславска редакция на старобългарския евангелски превод“ [“The Preslav Redaction of Old Bulgarian Translation of the Gospels”]. In 2001 she was awarded the academic degree of doctor of sciences (DSC) for her dissertation on the „Тълковната палея в контекста на старобългарската книжнина“ [“The Palaea Interpretata in the Context of Old Bulgarian Literature”].

  Subject: Language and Literature Studies , Essay|Book Review |Scientific Life , Scientific Life , Philology

  Keywords: Tatjana Slavova

Anisava Miltenova , Margaret Dimitrova Cynthia Vakareliyska аt 70

Синтия Вакарелийска на 70 години

• Summary/Abstract

  Cynthia Vakareliyska is a remarkable scholar who has significantly contributed to the fields of mediaeval Slavonic studies and the history of the Slavic languages. She was born in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. In 1973 she became BA in Russian magna cum laude at Princeton University and in 1976 received the degree of J.D. from the School of Law at Columbia University. For five years (1985–1990) she was a Teaching Fellow at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University, where in 1990 she obtained a Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures. In 1986 she was awarded the Certificate of Distinction in Teaching by the Danforth Institute at Harvard University. Later she worked as Assistant Professor in Russian at Georgetown University (1990–1994) and Assistant Professor in Slavic Linguistics (1994–1997) at the University of Oregon, Eugene, where she became Associate Professor in Slavic Linguistics (1997–1998), Associate Professor of Linguistics (1998–2008) and from 2008 to 2018 she was Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics at that university, and since 2018 Professor Emerita. She read courses on Old Church Slavonic, historical phonology of the Slavic languages, computer collation of mediaeval Slavic Menologies, the structure of Lithuanian and Russian, neuro- and gender linguistics.

  Subject: Language and Literature Studies , Essay|Book Review |Scientific Life , Obituary , Scientific Life , Philology

  Keywords: Anniversaries , Cynthia Vakareliyska

Elissaveta Moussakova , Dilyana Radoslavova Catherine Mary MacRobert at 70

Катрин Мери МакРобърт на 70 години

• Summary/Abstract

  Catherine Mary MacRobert, M.A., D.Phil., formerly University Lecturer in Russian Philology and Comparative Slavonic Philology at the University of Oxford, is presently Emeritus Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, and Senior Research Fellow at Somerville College. Her main research interests have been in the history of mediaeval Slavonic translations from Greek and comparative grammar. A great deal of her work is devoted to the textual tradition of the mediaeval Slavonic Psalter. It would be not an exaggeration to say that nowadays she must be esteemed as one of the best experts on the subject.

  Subject: Language and Literature Studies , Essay|Book Review |Scientific Life , Obituary , Scientific Life , Philology

  Keywords: Anniversaries , Catherine Mary MacRobert

Iskra Hristova-Shomova , Margaret Dimitrova , Andrej Boyadzhiev Johannes Reinhart at 70

Йоханес Райнхарт на 70 години

• Summary/Abstract

  Professor Johannes Reinhart is one of the most outstanding figures in palaeo­ slavistics, the author of more than 100 articles and studies, a man who discovered hitherto unknown Slavonic texts, an untiring researcher into the Slavonic manuscript heritage and a noted etymologist. He was born on March 2, 1951, in Vienna, where he graduated, defended his doctoral thesis and lectured. With his erudition and precision Professor Reinhart, a disciple of the remarkable scholar František Mareš, is a typical representative of the famous Viennese school of Slavonic studies, the foundations of which were laid by the great Vatroslav Jagić.

  Subject: Language and Literature Studies , Essay|Book Review |Scientific Life , Obituary , Scientific Life , Philology

  Keywords: Anniversaries , Johannes Reinhart

Anisava Miltenova Anatolij Turilov at 70

Анатолий Турилов на 70 години

• Summary/Abstract

  The Russian historian, manuscript specialist and Slavonic mediaevalist Anatoly Turilov has earned a classic reputation in the field of research into mediaeval Slavonic manuscripts and Slavonic literatures. Born in Yaroslavl’ in 1951, Turilov graduated from the Faculty of History of Moscow State University, specialising in the study of primary sources (1973). He was a doctoral student at the Institute of Slavonic and Balkan Studies (1973–1976). Turilov worked as a senior librarian at the Manuscript Department of the Lenin Library (now the Russian State Library) in Moscow (1977–1979). In 1980 he successfully defended his dissertation on the topic of „Болгарские и сербские источники по средневековой истории Балкан в русской книжности конца ХІV– первой четверти ХVІ вв.“ This continued to be a leading topic throughout his academic career. Turilov worked as a research associate and a senior research associate at the Archaeographic Commission of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union, today the Russian Academy of Sciences. Turilov currently holds the position of research associate at the Institute of Slavonic Studies.

  Subject: Language and Literature Studies , Essay|Book Review |Scientific Life , Obituary , Scientific Life , Philology

  Keywords: Anatolij Turilov , Anniversaries

Anisava Miltenova , Adelina Angusheva-Tihanov In memoriam Francis J. Thomson (1935–2021)

In memoriam Франсис Дж. Томсън (1935–2021)

• Summary/Abstract

  Professor Francis J. Thomson, one of the most remarkable scholars in the field of the Byzantine and Slavonic cultures, passed away on 21 May 2021. A medievalist with an outstanding erudition and intellectual rigor, he shaped the studies of medieval Slavonic written cultures in the last six decades.

  Subject: Language and Literature Studies , Essay|Book Review |Scientific Life , Obituary , Scientific Life , Philology

  Keywords: In memoriam