Educational-cultural centres of the Slavdom, IX – XIX century

The year 2023 marks the 250th anniversary of the foundation of the Commission of National Education (1773), therefore the editorial board wants to dedicate the 25th issue of the journal “Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne” (“Poznań Slavonic Studies”) to the problematics of Slavonic education and school centres. Owing to education, states of so called younger Europe, to which all Slavonic, including Balkan, lands belong, gained the opportunity to adopt the civilizational patterns of already common Christian Europe, and to pass them on in the process of shaping foundations of national traditions of culture. It is hard to imagine the condition of the Slavonic civilization without such important local and foreign educational centres as, for example, Bratislava (Pressburg), Budapest, Kyiv, Cracow, Leipzig, Odessa, Padua, Prague, Rome, Vienna.

The above-mentioned subject matter still stays on the sidelines of the Slavonic studies. Knowledge about it is exceptionally scattered, despite the fact that we constantly refer to it during academic classes – presenting, for example, both profiles of the outstanding Slavs, the Coryphaeus of literature, the distinguished activists of culture or politics, and intra-European and inter-Slavonic cultural contacts. Updating the source documentation would bring benefit to the subject of our interest as well.

The proposed specific topics:

  1. source basis of the history of education and school system;
  2. participation of religious circles, Church, monasteries, religious orders in organizing school system (inter alia the Benedictines, the Cistercians, the Franciscans, the Jesuits, the Piarists, the Basilian monks); convent and parish schools, academies, gymnasiums, seminaries, missions;
  3. school system during the period of national captivity and lack of statehood;
  4. public awareness of education, educational patronage of secular and religious authorities;
  5. educational migrations, directions and motivations;
  6. educational policy of the powers towards the Slavs;
  7. first generations of the Slavonic intelligentsia;
  8. intellectual-didactic formation of teaching staff, outstanding students, teachers, superiors of schools;
  9. educational-social influence in a milieu; dissemination of knowledge; development of school system;
  10. school system and pursuit of its modernization.

You can send articles in all Slavonic languages, in English and other congressional languages, edited according to the instructions on the page https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/pss/about/submissions to the e-mail address: studiaslawistyczne@gmail.com or submit them on the platform https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/pss/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions 

until the 28th of February 2024.

The suggested length of papers is 35000 signs with a summary (about 700 characters), key words in English and a short note about the author (max 700 characters), ORCID number of the author and e-mail address.

Please confirm your participation in this volume until the 20th of September 2023. The title of the work is expected to be sent until the 15th of November 2023.

The thematic editors of the issue are Marzanna Kuczyńska (Poland) and Viviana Nosilia (Italy).

PSS 27 Slavenski kulturno-prosvjetni centri, IX-XIX st., hr
PSS 27 Slovanská centra osvěty a kultury, IX-XIX st
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PSS 27 Образовательно-культурные центры Славянства, IX–XIX вв
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