Medieval History
In 2013, various events will be organized in Ni? to celebrate an important date in the history of Christianity ? the 1700th anniversary of the Edict of Milan. Emperor Constantine's hometown will be the venue of the big international conference
St. Emperor Constantine and Christianity
The conference is planned to be held in late May or early June 2013, and the organizers are: Center for Church Studies, Ni?; Institute for Slavo-Byzantine Studies ?Ivan Duj?ev?, Sofia; Department of History, Faculty of Philosophy, Belgrade; Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies, Cambridge; and Institute for National and Religious Studies, Thessaloniki.
Program Committee: Serbian Patriarch Irinej, president, Dragi?a Bojovi? (Ni?), vicepresident, Marcus Plested (Cambridge), Athanasios Angelopoulos (Thessaloniki), Vasja Velinova (Sofia), Sini?a Mi?i? (Belgrade), Francesco Braschi (Milan), Ljubomir Maksimovi? (Belgrade), Aksinija D?urova (Sofia), Branislav Todi? (Belgrade), Ivanka Gergova (Sofia), Thomas Papastergiou (Thessaloniki), Aleksander Naumov (Venice, Krakow), Radomir Popovi? (Belgrade), Vladimir Cvetkovi? (Aarhus), Kiril Maksimovi? (Moscow), Ivica ?ivkovi? (Ni?), secretary and Vladimir Aleksi? (Ni?), secretary.
We would like to invite you to participate in the conference. The topic should be related to one of the following domains:
? Emperor Constantine in history
? Christianity in the first millennium
? Theological and church-historical circumstances in the 4th century
? St. Emperor Constantine in art
? St. Emperor Constantine in literature
? Roman law and Christianity
? Edicts on religious tolerance.
A paper title followed by an abstract in English or Serbian should be submitted electronically to the email of Program Committee secretaries: [email protected], [email protected] by June 1, 2011.
Since the proceedings volume is planned to be printed before the conference, we ask you to send your paper by May 1, 2012 at latest. The paper may be written in one of the following languages: English, Russian, French, Serbian, Bulgarian. The conference languages will be English and Serbian. Proceedings editorial board: Vladimir Cvetkovi?, Sini?a Mi?i?, Vasja Velinova, Athanasios Angelopoulos, Marcus Plested, Ivica ?ivkovi?, and Dragi?a Bojovi?, editor.
The conference fee is 30 EUR and will be due during 2012. Additional information about the payment procedure will be available at a later point.
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Medieval History
1700 Years of the Edict of Milan
In 2013, various events will be organized in Ni? to celebrate an important date in the history of Christianity ? the 1700th anniversary of the Edict of Milan. Emperor Constantine's hometown will be the venue of the big international conference
St. Emperor Constantine and Christianity
The conference is planned to be held in late May or early June 2013, and the organizers are: Center for Church Studies, Ni?; Institute for Slavo-Byzantine Studies ?Ivan Duj?ev?, Sofia; Department of History, Faculty of Philosophy, Belgrade; Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies, Cambridge; and Institute for National and Religious Studies, Thessaloniki.
Program Committee: Serbian Patriarch Irinej, president, Dragi?a Bojovi? (Ni?), vicepresident, Marcus Plested (Cambridge), Athanasios Angelopoulos (Thessaloniki), Vasja Velinova (Sofia), Sini?a Mi?i? (Belgrade), Francesco Braschi (Milan), Ljubomir Maksimovi? (Belgrade), Aksinija D?urova (Sofia), Branislav Todi? (Belgrade), Ivanka Gergova (Sofia), Thomas Papastergiou (Thessaloniki), Aleksander Naumov (Venice, Krakow), Radomir Popovi? (Belgrade), Vladimir Cvetkovi? (Aarhus), Kiril Maksimovi? (Moscow), Ivica ?ivkovi? (Ni?), secretary and Vladimir Aleksi? (Ni?), secretary.
We would like to invite you to participate in the conference. The topic should be related to one of the following domains:
? Emperor Constantine in history
? Christianity in the first millennium
? Theological and church-historical circumstances in the 4th century
? St. Emperor Constantine in art
? St. Emperor Constantine in literature
? Roman law and Christianity
? Edicts on religious tolerance.
A paper title followed by an abstract in English or Serbian should be submitted electronically to the email of Program Committee secretaries: [email protected], [email protected] by June 1, 2011.
Since the proceedings volume is planned to be printed before the conference, we ask you to send your paper by May 1, 2012 at latest. The paper may be written in one of the following languages: English, Russian, French, Serbian, Bulgarian. The conference languages will be English and Serbian. Proceedings editorial board: Vladimir Cvetkovi?, Sini?a Mi?i?, Vasja Velinova, Athanasios Angelopoulos, Marcus Plested, Ivica ?ivkovi?, and Dragi?a Bojovi?, editor.
The conference fee is 30 EUR and will be due during 2012. Additional information about the payment procedure will be available at a later point.
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