Ivan Biliarsky

The book presents an investigation into the legal language of mediaeval Bulgaria, seen in its own cultural context: the Byzantine Commonwealth. Law and Language are cultural phenomena and their interdependence is closely linked to their civilisation in which they are embedded.

Word and Power in Mediaeval Bulgaria

Ovidiu Cristea

Anca Oroveanu

The overall character of the Black Sea region has been defined over time in various ways. For specialists in economy and trade, it has represented a region at the crossroads of the trade routes between Europe and Asia; for political scientists and historians, it has been a space of confrontation between the great terrestrial and naval powers; for the scholars attentive to its cultural dimensions, it has been a contact zone, a space of interaction between different peoples, religions and cultures. These attempts at a definition all revolve around an essential (and ambivalent) feature of the Black Sea as a factor of connection, a bridge, and at the same time a border, a dividing line between Europe and Asia, between the Baltic and the Mediterranean region. In this fluctuation between the two, the predominance of one over the other (“bridge” or “border”) has depended on a number of factors, first among them the distribution of power relations in the region. This volume, which originated in a symposium hosted by the New Europe College – Institute for Advanced Study in Bucharest, brings together contributions coming from scholars within the Black Sea region and outside it, in an attempt to look at the Balkans and Caucasus from a comparative and multi-disciplinary perspective, highlighting their differences, as well as their common features. The overarching question this volume and the papers included in it address – and leave open – is to what extent we are dealing with a coherent zone, whose past, present and future can legitimately be considered as being traversed by meaningful interrelations, suggesting a shared destiny.

Parallel Processes on the Opposite Sides of the Black Sea

The Balkans and Caucasus

Radu G. Păun

This volume explores the relations between theology and power by focusing on the Bible as source of medieval and modern political ideology and law. The problems related to the «political theology» in Orthodox, Catholic and Protestant worlds are submitted to a comparative reflection involving historians, art historians and jurists, in order to promote an interdisciplinary dialogue and to bring forward new themes for further reflection. Le volume porte sur les rapports entre théologie et pouvoir. L'attention des auteurs s'est concentrée sur la Bible en tant que source de l'idéologie politique et du droit au Moyen ge et à l'époque moderne. Les problèmes de la « théologie politique » dans les mondes orthodoxe, catholique et protestant sont soumis à une réflexion comparative, impliquant historiens, historiens de l'art et juristes, afin de promouvoir un dialogue interdisciplinaire et lancer de nouveaux thèmes de réflexion.

Ivan Biliarsky

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