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Last Will as an Act of Preparation for Death [Based on Documents from Registers of the Solovetskiy Monastery of the 16th Century]

Expressing wishes as to how a person's property was to be distributed at death was permitted by Old-Russian common law. At first, oral disposals had been practiced, whereas written wills became widespread only in the 14…

Illuminated Manuscript 626 C from the Treasury of Split Cathedral - Riddles and Suppositions

The collections in Croatian churches and monasteries keep treasure of outstanding cultural and historical value, which is still waiting to be studied, properly evaluated and published. Among just such precious items is…

The Uniate Alteration of the Orthodox Treatise Zercalo bogoslovii

The article deals with the modification introduced by the Uniates to the Orthodox treatise Zercalo bogoslovii (1618), published in Pochaiv in 1790. The Uniate publishers created the Uniate roots of treatise, changed the…

Of Manuscript Culture in Early Modern Dubrovnik

In the article's introduction, the author points to the history of the book as one of the younger sub-disciplines and to its relevance for literary history. This fact is particularly important for old Dubrovnik where th…

Private Handwritten Prayer Books of the Catholics from the XVIII-XIX-century Right-Bank Ukraine as an Evidence of the Era).

The article presents a description and analysis of the peculiarities of the handwritten prayer books of Catholics of the Right-Bank Ukraine of the XVIІІ-XIX centuries on the example of one of the collections of the Cent…

Mihanović Homiliarium in the Monastery of St Prohor of Pčinja: an Overlooked Fragment of a Cognate Serbian Parchment Manuscript Copy of the 14th Century

The article presents an analysis of a Cyrillic parchment fragment of Serbian provenance once kept in the monastery of St Prohor of Pčinja and published by J. Hadži-Vasiljević in 1900. The fragment is now identified as b…

Unknown Аrchaic Тranslation of Sermon 5 from John of Sinaya's Scala Paradisi, in a Serbian Manuscript from the 14th Century

The subject of this research is an unknown Slavic translation of Sermon 5 John of Sinaya's Scala Paradisi (Lestvica) in a Serbian Menaion and Triodion Panagyric, rewritten from an old Bulgarian antigraph which has prese…

Did Two Zlatousts from the Collection of the Princes Chartoryski Library in Cracow Once Belong to Fr Iwan Wiszeński?

In the collection of manuscripts of the Princes Chartoryski Library in Cracow, there are two manuscripts (from the beginning of the 17th century) which are related, in academic literature, with the person of Orthodox mo…

GANDHIAN PRINCIPLES ON HEALTH: EVIDENCES, RELEVANCE AND IMPLICATIONS IN THE MODERN CONTEXT OF HEALTH

Mohan Das Karamchand Gandhi, popularly known as Mahatma Gandhi is one of the greatest visionaries who is known for his anti-imperialistic views and strong political strategies. Right from his childhood till his last bre…

Phytochemistry, Anthelmintic study of herbaceous aerial part of Kallstroemia pubescens (G. Don) & Review of Novel Effects of Diosgenin: A Plant Derived Steroid

The genus is named after A. Kallstroem who lived in the 18th century. Diosgenin is an aglycone of the steroidal saponin, dioscin in yam and is a principal raw material for the industrial production of steroid drugs. It…

Writing Publishable Qualitative Scientific Research

Research is "a systematic process of investigation, the general purpose of which is to contribute to the body of knowledge that shapes and guides academic and/or practice disciplines". Qualitative scientific research is…

Role of metformin on clozapine induced dyslipidaemia in Wistar rats

Background: The clinical research in the past decade has reported that most second-generation antipsychotics (SGAs) can cause serious metabolic derangement, which substantially increases the risk for type II diabetes me…

An evaluation of fixed dose combinations (FDCs) used for treatment of diabetes in Indian market

Objective: To analyse the rationality of various FDCs used in the treatment of Diabetes Mellitus and to find out the irrational FDCs existing in the Indian market. Material and Methods: Study Design: Analytical study. D…

Słowiańskie oświecenie - swoistość i typowość

The Enlightenment Ideas in the Bulgarian 19th Century. The Kardzhalian Topic in the Works of Vera Mutafchieva

The article examines the Enlightenment ideas in the part of Vera Mutafchieva's work. The time of Kardzhali, a specific period of chaos and marauding in the Ottoman Empire in the 18th and 19th century, is a period of the…

The sources of rationalism in Croatia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A study of less obvious cases (physics, theology, and politics)

The paper is an attempt to describe the reception of the idea of rationalism in order to represent its reworking in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Croatia in three areas - physics, theology and politics. The…

Devotion and Infant Jesus cult in literary creativity of Anica Bošković

The article is concerned with the Infant Jesus cult in the life and work of Anica Bošković (1714--1804), one of a few Croat women authoresses of Dubrovnik in the century of Enlightenment. The Infant Jesus cult was linke…

Bartholomeides's Portrayal of the Enlightenment Ruler

The intensity of the literary movement that took place in the Slovak territory integrated within the Kingdom of Hungary due to the Enlightenment policy of the ruler Joseph II can be properly illustrated by the genre-var…

"Slavic Enlightenment": Functioning of Cyrilo-Methodian tradition in modern Bulgarian culture

The article raises the question of functioning of Cyrilo-Methodian tradition in the Bulgarian culture in the conditions of modernity. The subject of analysis is the traditional and originally religious notion of the "Sl…

In tribute to Diderot: Milan Kundera, Jacques the Fatalist and their Master

In his meta-literary and para-textual statements, Milan Kundera has been frequently turning to the issue of the enlightenment narrative experiments considered as the initial ones for the twentieth-century (post)modern c…

Language strategies of the Enlightenment: the image of ʽPolandʼ in French Napoleonic Press

In this article, we reconstructed a generalized image of Poland and Poles within the framework of the multidisciplinary concept of "mental mapping". The most popular daily newspaper of Napoleon's time "Journal de l'Empi…

Taming the Beast. The Enlightenment Idea of Taming the Political Passions and the Russian Literary Beastiary).

In this article, the subject of research is the literary-political beastiarium in the transition from the Baroque to the Enlightenment in Russia. The conceptual basis are the parallel ideas of the beast in man, taming t…

Priest learned and enlightened in Peter I's reform program

The article is an attempt to define the notions of wisdom and enlightenment which were practised by the clergy in Peter the First's time. For that reason, the notions' components alike world view, knowledge, skills, and…

The Enlightenment Trends in the Basilian School Theatre of Buchach in the Second Half of the 18th Century

The drama activities carried out in the period 1759-1781 on school stage of the Basilian College of Buchach helped to transfer the standards applied in the Enlightenment era to the gentry at the periphery of the former…

Curiosity and coincidentia oppositorum: on the legacy of Aleksander Sapieha as an author of Journey around the Slavic countries in the years 1802 and 1803

Aleksander Antoni Sapieha has gone down in the history of Polish science, he is one of the episodic figures in the political history of our country in the Napoleonic era; and in the history of Polish literature he appea…