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ПРИНОСИ КЪМ БЪЛГАРСКАТА АРХЕОЛОГИЯ, ТОМ XIII, 2023 CONTRIBUTIONS TO BULGARIAN ARCHAEOLOGY, VOLUME XIII, pp.5- 33 , 2023

This article is dedicated to an analysis of the ethno-cultural situation in the northwestern part of the Khazar Khaganate, where the forest-steppe variant of the Saltov culture was located, in the 8th-10th c. Some researchers believed that part of this territory was a contact zone that only ran along the Khazar-Slavic border. The forest-steppe variant of the Saltov culture, however, was culturally and ethnically mixed. To the north it bordered possessions of a settled Slavic population while to the south it was adjacent to the steppe world. The population of this region was made up of representatives of many ethnic groups whose cultural traditions constantly interacted. Thus, in the 8 th-10 th c. this contact zone also occupied lands further south toward the border with the steppe.

Studies inLateAntiquity, 8.1, 2024

This essay examines the diplomatic efforts of Gallic bishops with barbarian kings, in the tense period after 406 CE and during the raids of Attila in Gaul in 451. The first part of this essay seeks to understand the narrative strategies at work in five late antique Gallic hagiographies. Written decades after they occurred by hagiographers under different political circumstances, these diplomatic encounters were reimagined and reinterpreted, bolstering claims of episcopal authority. The second part of this essay contextualizes the hagiographic claims of Gallic bishops’ involvement in diplomacy, paying particular attention to the role of episcopal humility in diplomatic encounters. It,shows that this humility was not only a topos but also a useful diplomatic and religious tool.

British Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2020

This article summarises the findings from a review of publications related to healthcare leadership that were published during the first wave of the COVID-19 crisis in 2020. The review discusses a range of strategies for leaders to adopt in challenging situations and identifies three aspects of leadership which are considered essential when leading teams during a crisis: 1) communication, 2) decision making and 3) mental health and wellbeing. This article identifies key principles for each of these three aspects and provides practical tips for how leaders can use the lessons learned from the pandemic in their own contexts.