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Tracing Pottery-Making Recipes in the Prehistoric Balkans 6th?4th Millennia BC' is a collection of twelve chapters that capture the variety of current archaeological, ethnographic, experimental and scientific studies on Balkan prehistoric ceramic production, distribution and use. The Balkans is a culturally rich area at the present day as it was in the past. Pottery and other ceramics represent an ideal tool with which to examine this diversity and interpret its human and environmental origins. Consequently, Balkan ceramic studies is an emerging field within archaeology that serves as a testing ground for theories on topics such as technological know-how, innovation, craft tradition, cultural transmission, interaction, trade and exchange. This book brings together diverse studies by leading researchers and upcoming scholars on material from numerous Balkan countries and chronological periods that tackle these and other topics for the first time. It is a valuable resource for anyone working on Balkan archaeology and also of interest to those working on archaeological pottery from other parts of the world.

Pottery, Ancient --- Balkan Peninsula --- Antiquities.

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Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages stood at a crossroads of trade and crusading routes and fell within the spheres of influence of both the Byzantine Orthodox Church and Latin Christendom. This authoritative survey draws on historical and archaeological sources in the narration of 750 years of the history of the region, including Romania, southern Ukraine, southern Hungary, Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Albania and Greece. Exploring the social, political and economic changes marking the transition from late Antiquity to the early Middle Ages, this book addresses important themes such as the rise of medieval states, the conversion to Christianity, the monastic movement inspired by developments in Western Europe and in Byzantium, and the role of material culture (architecture, the arts and objects of daily life) in the representation of power.

Balkan Peninsula --- Balkans --- History. --- Church history. --- Histoire --- Histoire religieuse --- History --- Arts and Humanities --- Acqui 2006 --- Balkan Peninsula - History

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Les Cahiers balkaniques sont nés en 1981 à l’INALCO. Cette revue est destinée à publier des travaux de recherche effectués par les membres des différents groupes constitués à l’intérieur du Centre d'études balkaniques.

Balkan Peninsula --- Balkans --- Periodicals. --- Périodiques --- Cultuur. --- Balkan Peninsula. --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- area studies --- lingustics --- literature --- history --- geography --- Balkan States --- Europe, Southeastern --- Southeastern Europe --- Europe, Eastern --- Eastern Europe

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The book by Magdalena Lubanska examines the role of religious syncretism in the social and religious life of Muslim-Christian communities in the Western Rhodopes. The author is interested mainly in the origins and motivations of various beliefs and behaviors which at first sight may appear to be syncretic. She looks at syncretism in the context of anti-syncretic tendencies, particularly pronounced among the Muslim neophytes and young members of the Muslim religious elite, who are not interested in the local forms of post-ottoman Islam ("Adat Islam"), preferring instead a "pure" form of religion, a class of fundamentalist religious movements rooted in orthodox Islam and seeking to remain faithful to mainstream Islamic thought and tradition ("Salafi Islam"). Lubanska findings offer an insight into the fact that although certain actions may appear syncretic in nature, their underlying intentions are often not in fact motivated by syncretic tendencies. This is the first study to look at syncretism in Bulgaria from this perspective.

Balkan Peninsula --- Regions & Countries - Europe --- History & Archaeology --- Religious Syncretism, Islam, Bulgaria, Rhodopes. --- Rhodope Mountains Region --- Religion. --- Rhodope Mountains --- Archaeology. --- History. --- Balkan Peninsula.

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Twentieth-century Southeastern Europe endured three, separate decades of international and civil war, and was marred in forced migration and wrenching systematic changes. This book is the result of a year-long project by the Open Society Institute to examine and reappraise this tumultuous century. A cohort of young scholars with backgrounds in history, anthropology, political science, and comparative literature were brought together for this undertaking. The studies invite attention to fascism, socialism, and liberalism as well as nationalism and Communism. While most chapters deal with war and confrontation, they focus rather on the remembrance of such conflicts in shaping today's ideology and national identity.

Nationalism --- Balkan Peninsula --- Politics and government --- Balkan, Childhood, Communism, Historiography, Identity, Ideology, Nationalism, Political studies.