Balkans-msg - 2/9/12

Balkan history and culture. (Yugoslavia)

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From: blktauna at netaxs.com (Donna Bowers)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: Russia/Black Sea/Caspian Sea area
Date: 22 Jan 1995 19:45:41 GMT
Organization: Netaxs Internet BBS and Shell Accounts

There's 
"The Early Medieval Balkans, a critical survey from the 6th to the late 
12th cents." 
John V.A. Fine jr. Univ of Mich press
--
blktauna at netaxs.com


Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
From: bq676 at torfree.net (Kristine E. Maitland)
Subject: Ibn Battuta/Balkan History
Organization: Toronto Free-Net
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 12:54:23 GMT

Now that I have Cariadoc's attention...(grin)

Was doing my usual browse at Robarts Library (U of Toronto) and came 
across an article that you guys might interesting:

H. T. Norris. "Ibn Battuta's Journey in the North-Eastern Balkans." in 
	journal of Islamic Studies_ vol #5 #2 (July 1994) pp209-220

Given that I'm a "professional" browser, I think that I may start a weekly 
thread, and pass my nifty sources to you guys.

Ines Carmen Maria de Freitas


Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 10:02:07 MST
From: "Caley Woulfe" <cwoulfe at life.edu>
Subject: ANST - Medieval Serbian website
To: "Tavern Yard" <TY at reashelm.ce.utk.edu>
CC: "Ansteorran List" <ansteorra at Ansteorra.ORG>

http://solair.eunet.yu/~zeljkoj/index_english.htm


From: Paul Halsall <phalsall at unf.edu>
To: byzans-l at lists.missouri.edu <byzans-l at lists.missouri.edu>;
mediev-l at ukans.edu <mediev-l at ukans.edu>
Date: Monday, November 08, 1999 5:04 PM
Subject: Chilander on CD

Chilander is a monastery on Mount Athos which in 1198 was refounded by
St. Sava as a the Serbian monastery on Athos.

At the Byzantine Studies Conference this past weekend Dr. Taylor
Hostetter [hilandercd at hotmail.com] presented one of the most fascinating
CD-Roms I have ever seen.

Called, _In the Heart of Hilander_ ($32) it is a complete three
dimensional presentation of the monastery church of the foundation. The
work presents a complete photographic record of the inside and outside
of the Church (think of a sort of Byzantine version of Myst or Doom), in
which every image of the Church is viewable, many in different sizes
(although the pictures are not scalable.) Moving the cursor over each
image calls up the identity of the figure in question, feast days of the
figure, and a great deal of additional information.

The work allow much more than this. It also allows sectional views,
views of the monastery church at different periods of its construction,
examination of the use of space, and an ability to see the frescos
without the current monastic furniture (iconstands and so forth.)

Other modules allow you to play Serbian church music in the background,
to explore the architectural forms of a Byzantine church, to trace the
history of Mt Athos, and even to follow Bible stories through the
paintings. There are even a series of inbuilt databases on the images
which users can access.

In all the disk claims to contain nearly 5000 images on over 3000 pages,
with the ability to see every one of the 950 wall paintings individually
and in context.

In other words, this is a stunning achievement -- a CD which does things
that no book can do, and in a depth that will satisfy almost anyone. The
promise that it might be a model for further presentations of
architectural monuments is only icing on the cake.

Supposedly a website on the project will be set up soon -- with the URL
http://www.digitalbyzantium.com
or
http://digitalbyzantium.com

In the meantime, I really would encourage any one who wants to enthuse
students about Byzantium, the medieval Balkans, or the middle ages in
general, to get hold of the disk. Students I have been showing it to in
my office all day long have left with their eyes popping.

Paul Halsall


Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 18:20:10 -0400
From: Johnna Holloway <johnnae at mac.com>
To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] 10th-13th century Turkish was Sixteenth
	Century	Turkish

Lots of resources here too, but the food references are going to be  
hit and miss.

Selected Bibliography of English-language Print Resources for Balkans

http://www.library.yale.edu/slavic/research/balkans.html

You'll find books mentioned like:
Fine, John V. A., Jr. The Early Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey  
from the Sixth to the Late Twelfth Century [1983]

"Most of what has been written on the medieval Balkans - the area that  
now encompasses Yugoslavia, Greece, Bulgaria, and Albania? has been  
little more than a footnote to Byzantine history or has been limited  
to narrow national histories. The Early Medieval Balkans is the first  
comprehensive examination of the events of early medieval Balkan  
history events that were as important as they are fascinating."

http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do;jsessionid=7954A1AF164E7E1ACCD108EA8027BB49?id=8108

Johnnae, playing librarian

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