SESDiva aims at creating a virtual museum of written culture in relation to the social, religious, cultural, and ideological environment and relations between the South and East Slavs throughout the centuries from the 11th to the beginning of the 20th century. A web portal is created to visualize milestones of the exchange of written artifacts and the attitude towards them.
Project acronym: SESDiva. Project No. 156
Duration: 2018-2020
Program: ERA.Net RUS Plus Call 2017 ‐ S&T Projects
• Institute for Literature
of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
• Institute of Slavic Studies
of the Russian Academy of Sciences
• Department of Languages and Cultures,
Section Slavic and East‐European Studies,
Ghent University
The oldest and most famous written heritage 11th-16th c.
Migrating books, texts, ideas: a literary and cultural exchange between Southern and Eastern Slavs.
Centres of communication throughout the centuries (Mount Athos, Moscow, Odessa, Rila monastery, etc.)
National Slavic Revival in the Balkans and Russia (Reception of the Balkan writers of 18th-19th c. in Russia).