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Medieval Slavic Manuscripts and Culture

Tag: Antoaneta Granberg

Festschrift to Anisava Miltenova

A recent festschrift in honor of Anisava Miltenova, Institute for Literature, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences includes over forty articles on topics such as medieval Byzantino-Slavic culture, biblical apocrypha, female saints, Balkan saints, hagiographical texts, etc., all reflecting aspects of Professor Miltenova’s wide range of interests and scholarship.

Angusheva, Adelina, Margaret Dimitrova, Mariia Iovcheva, Maia Petrova-Taneva, and Diliana Radoslavova, comp. and eds. Vis et Sapientia: Studia in Honorem Anisavae Milteonva. Нови извори, интерпретации и подходи в медиевистиката / ‘Strength and Wisdom: Studies in Honor of Anisava Miltenova. New Sources, Interpretations and Approaches to Medieval Studies.’ Sofia: Boian Penev Academic Publishing House, 2016.

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Recent Acquisitions – March 2016

cover of the book Byzantium and the Viking World, with a picture of a building against a blue sky in the upper fourth of the cover, a black background for the lower 3/4s with the title in pink and blue in the middle; in the lower left quadrant is a statue of the lion of Piraeus, taken by the Venetians in the late 17th century, which has runes carved into it. The names of the three editors are in the lower right quadrant.

Two books that relate Scandinavia and the Vikings to Byzantium and the Balkans were acquired in March 2016. The first is:

Byzantium and the Viking World, edited by Fedir Androshchuk, Jonathan Shepard, Monica White (Uppsala, 2016).

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