The Balkans and Caucasus: Parallel Processes on the Opposite Sides of the Black Sea Hardcover - 2012

Ivan Biliarsky is Professor at the Institute of Historical Studies of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, and at the Department of Law, Varna Free University Tchernorizets Khrabar. He has published more than 150 articles in nine languages, in 15 European countries and in the USA, and several books, among which are The Biblical Models of Power and Law: Papers of the International Conference held in Bucharest, New Europe College (co-edited with Radu G. Paun; Peter Lang, 2008); Word and Power in Mediaeval Bulgaria (Brill, 2011); and The Tale of the Prophet Isaiah and the Creation of the Political Ideology of Early Medieval Bulgaria (Sofia, 2011). Ovidiu Cristea has been Researcher at the Institute of History Nicolae Iorga in Bucharest since 1993, and is currently its acting director. His interests focus on the crusades in the Later Middle Ages, Black Sea history, military history and the Medieval history of Wallachia and Moldavia. He has published numerous contributions on these topics, including Venice and the Black Sea in the Thirteenth-Fourteenth Centuries: Contributions to the Study of the Venetian Oriental Policy (Braila, 2004); A Prince from a Distant Land: Stephen the Great in Venetian Documents in 1484 (Bucharest, 2004); and The Black Sea: Maritime Powers - Continental Powers (Bucharest, 2006). Anca Oroveanu is Professor in the Department of Art History and Art Theory of the National University of Arts in Bucharest, and Academic Director of the New Europe College - Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences in Bucharest. She is a member of editorial boards of academic journals and of scientific bodies in Romania and abroad. Her writings include Psychoanalysis and the European Theory of Art (Bucharest, 2000); Recollection and Forgetting: Writings in the History of Art (Bucharest, 2004); several co-edited books; and a number of contributions to questions of art history and art theory published in specialized journals.