Aspects of the Balkans. Continuity and change

 

Contributions to the International Balkan Conference held at UCLA,

October 23-28, 1969

 

edited by HENRIK. BIRNBAUM and SPEROS VRYONIS, Jr.

 

( MOUTON, The Hague - Paris, 1972)

 

  

Contents

Title pages..

 

   Prefatory Note  ( H. Birnbaum )

 

Maria GIMBUTAS The Neolithic Cultures of the Balkan Peninsula

Vladimir GEORGIEV The Earliest Ethnological Situation of the Balkan Peninsula as Evidenced by Linguistic and Onomastic Data

 

Pavle IVIĆ.  Balkan Slavic Migrations in the Light of South Slavic Dialectology

 

Kostas KAZAZIS The Status of Turkisms in the Present-Day Balkan Languages

 

Peter CHARANIS Town and Country in the Byzantine Possessions of the Balkan Peninsula During the Later Period of the Empire

 

Ivan DUJČEV Le problème de la continuité dans l'histoire de la Bulgarie médiévale

 

Speros VRYONIS, JR.  Religious Changes and Patterns in the Balkans, 14th-16th Centuries

 

M.  CHATZIIDAKIS Aspects de la peinture religieuse dans les Balkans (1300-1500)

K. OTTO-DORN Nachleben byzantinischer Traditionen in der Moschee Murads II. in Edirne

 

Edward WILLIAMS A Byzantine Ars Nova: The 14th-Century Reforms of John Koukouzeles in the Chanting of Great Vespers

 

B. LAOURDAS Greek Religious Texts During the Ottoman Period

 

Henrik BIRNBAUM Byzantine Tradition Transformed: The Old Serbian Vita

 

Andreas TIETZE The Balkans and Ottoman Sources — Ottoman Sources and the Balkans

 

Albert LORD The Effect of the Turkish Conquest on Balkan Epic Tradition

 

Robert GEORGES Process and Structure in Traditional Storytelling in the Balkans: Some Preliminary Remarks

 

Halil İNALCIK The Ottoman Decline and Its Effects Upon the Reaya

 

J. MATL Die patriarchale Altkultur und der Weg zur Neukultur

 

Thomas EEKMAN Parallel Developments in the Poetry of the South Slavs (Late 19th and Early 20th Century)

 

R. V. BURKS Nationalism and Communism in Yugoslavia: An Attempt at Synthesis

 

Huey Louis KOSTANICKBalkan Demographic Trends and Population Heartlands

 

   Epilogue  ( S. Vryonis )

 

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