Mirela Ivanova
@_mirelaivanova_
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no longer here. find me: @mirela.bsky.social
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Joined April 2014
Slightly unbelievably, my book has just been published!
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It’s quite clearly now time to leave this forsaken platform (i regret not leaving sooner in fact): follow me on BlueSky so we can build a better place!
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The Samanid Mausoleum in Bukharra (10th c.): oldest funerary monument in Central Asia! Survived almost entirely in tact underground (left). Local man outside told me Genghis Khan didn't destroy it because he was "scared of cemetaries".
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Early preview of the new journal volume is available here, as are a number of exciting articles:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Click on the article title to read more.
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My review of Eric McGeer's welcome translation of the fascinating continuation of John Skylitzes' Chronicle is now available online at Early Medieval Europe!
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Thanks to Mirela for her diligent, enthusiastic and essential contribution to the making of The New Real.
This extraordinary new play by @DavidBEdgar opens at The Other Place in the RSC in 2⃣ weeks! The story of how the populst right came to be and what it learned from Eastern Europe. Priveleged to have had a small part in this: listen out for Bulgarian!
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This extraordinary new play by @DavidBEdgar opens at The Other Place in the RSC in 2⃣ weeks! The story of how the populst right came to be and what it learned from Eastern Europe. Priveleged to have had a small part in this: listen out for Bulgarian!
‘Debates. Spindoctors. Mailshots, photo-ops...' David Edgar's #TheNewReal comes to the newly re-configured The Other Place this October, in association with @HeadlongTheatre
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Dimitris Stamatopoulos' Byzantium after the Nation has been reviewed in @enghistrev. Read the article The Politics of Byzantine Studies: Between Nations and Empires: 👉🏻 https://t.co/s8CLQa0ybv 🛒📙 https://t.co/WM5KsYKQkQ
#Review #bookreview #article #byzantine
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Slightly unbelievable (and probably the product of mysterious algorithms) but it seems that Ben (@BunyaminAnders) and I’s article on the Politics of Byzantine Studies is currently the most read on the English Historical Review website! Thanks for reading and/or clicking!
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The incredible 7th century wall paintings at the Sogdian rulers’ palace found in and on display at Afrosiyab (ancient and medieval Samarkand). Note the Turkish guards sitting cross legged with their long hair up top!
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📖 Me and Ben (@BunyaminAnders)’s article for the English Historical Review (@enghistrev) is now online and open access! The Politics of Byzantine Studies: between nations and empires https://t.co/Rmfntfk67s
academic.oup.com
Byzantine studies is neither the oldest nor the largest of the historical disciplines, but it is among the oddest. Its peculiarities, however, are rarely d
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An important and impressive dissection of scholarship on Byzantium from the fall of Constantinople to the present. A must-read for Byzantinists.
New in Reflections: Mirela Ivanova @_mirelaivanova_ and Benjamin Anderson @BunyaminAnders on 'The Politics of Byzantine Studies: Between Nations and Empires'. https://t.co/3iE3p79v5J
@unishefhistory @CornellHistory
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New in Reflections: Mirela Ivanova @_mirelaivanova_ and Benjamin Anderson @BunyaminAnders on 'The Politics of Byzantine Studies: Between Nations and Empires'. https://t.co/3iE3p79v5J
@unishefhistory @CornellHistory
academic.oup.com
Byzantine studies is neither the oldest nor the largest of the historical disciplines, but it is among the oddest. Its peculiarities, however, are rarely d
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My @TEDx talk about history, borders, nationalism and my roots and routes around the Balkans is now available online! Thanks to @TEDxOxford and the beatiful Oxford City Hall. https://t.co/xadmKvDuJb
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My article on the Cyrillic alphabet in History Today is free to read - what a better way to spend May 24th, the day of the Slavonic Alphabet and Culture!
The #Cyrillic alphabet is celebrated across the Slavonic-speaking world, but not only as an appreciation of literacy – it has a political dimension too. 🔓 @_mirelaivanova_’s recent article is free to read ahead of #CyrillicAlphabetDay
https://t.co/ntICIOC5MO
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Can't wait to discuss my new book with the brilliant @Helen_Gittos and @Pseudo_Isidore next week. Join us 🥂 ⏲️Monday (20th) at 5pm 📍All Souls College, Oxford Big thanks to @peterfrankopan, @oxbyz, @OxMedStud
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It’s May so fast approaching is … you guessed it: the International day of the Slavonic Alphabet and culture! Read all about the modern politics of letters in my article on the latest issue of @HistoryToday
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Incredible to see one of only two originals of the poster put at 10am in the morning across Petersburg to announce the Russian Revolution to the populace on 27 October 1917. Newly restored in Trinity College Library, Cambridge.
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