The significance of studying urban life and cities in the Balkans under Ottoman rule has long been recognized by modern academia, yet a comprehensive analysis of individual cities remains scarce. This monograph endeavors to bridge this gap by delving into the rich history of Plovdiv (known as Filibe in the Ottoman era), modern Bulgaria’s second-largest city. Drawing from the latest advancements in urban geo-humanities, this study positions Plovdiv as a window into the diverse human activities...

As a manifesto of triumph over iconoclasm (843), the Synodikon of Orthodoxy provides a valuable insight into the study of the Orthodox doctrine through the centuries. The present work considers the Synodikon as a living text and as an object and a field of memory contests, invested in equal measure by the ecclesiastical authority and the monarchical power. The first part of the book questions the relationship between various textual traditions and between text and ritual, the stakes of the...

Towards the end of the 19th century the Albanian part of the Ottoman Balkans became a target of Austro-Hungarian foreign policy. In the attempt to expand the empire across this region, scholarship acquired great significance. To date the focus has been primarily on Austrian researchers, while the fact that Hungarian scholars and the Hungarian elite were also pursuing their own interests has been overlooked. Looked at in this light, the Hungarian-Albanian Dictionary produced by Zoltán László...

Il volume analizza la dimensione comunitaria di Spalato nel pieno Quat­trocento (1420-1479), secondo una struttura a spirale che, muovendo dal basso verso l’alto, si occupa nella sua prima parte delle strutture di base della società spalatina, dalla famiglia sino alle confraternite di sostegno e di mutua cooperazione; nella seconda, delle comunità di diritto, in parti­colare i nobili, i popolani, i cittadini e i forestieri; nella terza del comune, inteso quale momento primario di unificazione e...

Austro-Hungarian consulate reports are excellent sources for the history of the late Ottoman Balkans. The present edition contains reports on Kosovo Vilayet with its administrative headquarters in Skopje, a former province comprising the state territory of today’s Kosovo, the northern regions of today’s Republic of North Macedonia and the Sanjak of Novi Pazar (today’s Montenegro and Serbia). The volume edited by Oliver Jens Schmitt and Eva Anne Frantz represents the most comprehensive edition...