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Greetings and Farewells in Emails in Serbian Language

In this paper we consider opening greetings and complementary closes (farewells) in emails written in Serbian language that make relatively independent communication entities with the most general purpose of initiating…

Painter and His Double in the Artistic Opus of Katarina Radojlović)

The painting of Katarina Radojlovic1 , gone too soon as it happens too often in life, carries inherently and by its nature the autobiographical features that do not allow factual interpretations and anecdotal storytelli…

A Refunctionalisation of Form. The Modernist Turn in the Opus of Painter Leonid Šejka

Works by Belgrade artist Leonid Šejka (1932-1970) are usually considered fantastic, an embodiment of aesthetic ideals of Mediala Art Group he was a member of, an opposition to everything that Modernism stood for with it…

Concert and a Question of Time

The focus on the structural and semantic role of time is one of the key features of modernist cinema in the period after the Second World War. Modernist filmmakers experiment with means of aesthetic expression, such as…

"Arch Macedonia", from Pseudo Classicism to Monument of Culture, from Political Ritualization to Civil Demystification

In this paper, we are considering the social aspects of the object "Porta Macedonia" as a part of the project "Skopje 2014", its political and cultural meanings, its symbolic aspects and its reflection on identity polic…

Form and Function in Baroque Architecture

The paper presents relations between form and function in the architecture on few selected examples of theoretical texts. Interrelation of form and function is analyzed on examples of the most important types of baroque…

The First Map of Slovenia

The first map of Slovenia was published only in 1861; it was the work of Peter Kozler, Slovenian lawyer and self-taught cartographer. If we analyze it in context of contemporary cartography, its novelty appears clearly.…

A "Priestesses from Marvinci" or a "Harnessed Wife"? Semiotics of the Iron Age Cheek-Pieces from the Group of "Macedonian Bronzes"

The main reason for this study are the bronze objects found on the body of a woman (supposedly a "priestess") from an Iron Age grave (VII century BC) from Marvinci in the Republic of Macedonia. There has also been a bro…

Abramović - Ulay 1980-1988: Desert Storm Survivors

The twelve-year collaborative practice of Marina Abramović and Ulay (Franck Uwe Laysiepen), started with extreme, rapturous and unflinching explorations of capacities of the body in their early performances (a phase the…

O aktualności i atrakcyjności pewnego tematu

O aktualności i atrakcyjności pewnego tematu

Klasycy i ich (nie zawsze) klasyczne dzieła

Klasycy i ich (nie zawsze) klasyczne dzieła

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(Genesis and Evolution of Relation State - Church in Byzantine Empire

Practicaly until today there haven't appeared objectiv scientific works concerning begining and evolution of the byzantine monarchy. Christian Church after 300 years of awful persecutions came out of the underground and…

The Roman Church Against the State Power

This article emphasizes the important but rarely analyzed aesthetic-political dimension of the relationship between the Roman Catholic Church and the state. The author synthetically discusses the development of the inne…

Mesco dux Polonie baptizatur - the Access of the Piast Power to the Respublica Christiana

The article refers to the religious and cultural turning point that took place in the Piast state due to the act of accepting Christianity by the prince Mieszko I (who died in 992) in 966. These issues are presented fro…

Bulgarians in the Mont Athos Until the End of the 14th Century

n the present work, we review the question of the presence of Bulgarians in the Mont Athos region during the the middle ages. We then examine the topic of the first orthodox monastery there and the main steps in the est…

The Macedonian Dispute in the Activity of the Metropolitan of Thessalonica Anthimos

The article focuses on a context rarely exposed yet significant for the analysis how the Macedonian Dispute is perceived by the Greek public opinion. The aim of the text is to show the position of the representatives of…

The Religious Aspects of the Cossacks' Uprisings in the First Half of 17th Century

This paper focuses mostly on the religious aspects of the Cossacks' uprisings in the first half of 17th century (mainly the 1625, 1630, 1637 and 1638 uprisings), and discusses their impact on the origins, the course and…

Life of Queen Helen by Daniel II as a Model of Perfect Symphony of the State and the Church

The aim of this article is to describe and analyze relations between Serbian medieval queen - Helen of Anjou and the Serbian Orthodox Church presented in a literary vision of her life written by archbishop Daniel II. Th…

Relation of the Communist Regime Towards the Catholic Church in Croatia Between 1945 and 1952

Based on historical facts, published and unpublished archival materials, this work provides concise analysis of relations between the Church and the state in Croatia between 1945 and 1952, that is from the period when t…

The Metropolitan Andrei Šeptytsky's Role in Concluding Concordat Between the Apostolic See and Poland [1925]

This thesis is a study of the role of Andrei Šeptytsky, the Metropolitan of the Ukrainian GreekCatholic Church, in discussions on articles of the Concordat between the Apostolic See and Poland. The archival documents pr…

Churches in Poland Facing the German Occupation 1939-1945

Poland and Polish nationalism are widely identified with Catholicism. However, the population of the Polish state was not homogenous ethnically and religiously - in 1921 the number of ethnic/confessional minorities reac…

Protestants in the Tsarist Russia: Their Legal Status

The paper briefly presents the history of Protestantism in Russia (16th-19th century) and the legal status of Protestant communities. An emphasis is placed on participation of the state and the individual tsars in incre…

Dedicatory Epistles to the King in Matters of Faith in the Polish Protestant Bibles in the 16th and 17th Century

The article examines religious topics in dedicatory letters for the Polish Protestant Bibles of the 16th and 17th century. The New Testament published by Jan Seklucjan (1551-1553), the Brest Bible (1563) and the Gdansk…

Prayers for Ukraine and Peace in the "Times of Tribulation and Division"

Based upon web-published materials, the article analyzes the eulogies composed in the Church Slavonic and Ukrainian languages, which have arisen following Kiev's Maidan and its subsequent developments in the period Dece…