Publications

In 1998 the research associates of the CMRC published five monographs, 67 studies and articles, eight of them abroad (Austria, Germany, Greece, Lithuania, Macedonia, Russia and Ukraine).

The Centre develops also its own publishing activity because it is the basic way of presenting the research contributions to the learned public in this country and abroad and to take their place in the development of Cyrillo-Methodian studies. Since 1984 it has been publishing the series "Cyrillo-Methodian Studies". In it are included monographs, studies and articles dedicated to the life, public and literary activity of SS Cyril and Methodius, the Old Bulgarian language, the Slavonic, Greek and Latin sources on the life and work of the Thessalonian Brothers, the Old Bulgarian culture of the 9th-11th c., the Cyrillo-Methodian traditions during the Middle Ages, the National Revival up to this day, and the Cyrillo-Methodian heritage outside Bulgaria. Researches by Bulgarian and foreign authors are published in Bulgarian, in all Slavonic languages and also in French, German and English. Eleven volumes has so far been brought out.

Since 1991 the CMRC has had its own publication, the journal Palaeobulgarica (founded in 1977 by Academician Emil Georgiev).It is the only specialized Old Bulgarian journal in the world which publishes materials dedicated to the Old Bulgarian literature, language, art, culture, history and to their links to medieval European culture. In its editorial board participate prominent Bulgarian and foreign scholars (from Poland, Russia and the USA). The journal is brought out in four issues annually and in it are published articles in Bulgarian and in several international languages - English, German, Russian and French (with summaries in English or in Bulgarian). It enjoys high international prestige and is regularly followed by such authoritative centres of learning as Cambridge and Oxford Universities in Great Britain, Cambridge, Harvard, Stanford and Californian Universities in the USA, the Slavonic Institutes in Koeln, Bonn, Wuerzburg, Freiburg, the Theological Faculty of Frankfurt University, the Institute of Balkanistics in Salonika, the Higher School for Eastern Languages in Paris, the Papal Institute for Eastern Europe in Rome, etc.

In 1996, in certifying the journals of the humanities, published by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Palaeobulgarica ranked first. The journal is distributed in 34 countries in Europe, America and Asia (Armenia, Austria, Belaruss, Belgium, Canada, China, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine and the USA).

The Cyrillo-Methodian Research Centre also prepares and publishes separate important Slavonic medieval monuments, i.e. Simeon's Collection (according to Svetoslav's copy of 1073), the Old Bulgarian translation of the Old Testament from manuscript F.I.461 from the second half of the 14th c., as well as collections of reports from scientific forums organized by the Centre (e.g. "1080th Anniversary of the Death of St. Nahum of Ohrid" which contains 25 studies with important contributions, dedicated to the Greek and Slavonic Cyrillo-Methodian sources, to the chants of Constantine of Preslav and Nahum of Ohrid, to the classic monuments of medieval Bulgarian literature). For an exaustive contents for years 1987-96 click here