Associate Professor Angel Nikolov Nokolov
Institute of Balkan Studies and Center of Thracology,
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia
Historian
Researcher
Areas of Special Interests:
Medieval Bulgarian history, Bulgarian-Byzantine political and cultural relations, Medieval religious controversy between Eastern Orthodox and Catholics, Medieval political thought, Religious and artistic contacts between Muscovy, Mount Athos and Bulgarian lands during 16th – 17th century, Russian traveller and scientific accounts about the cultural heritage of Bulgaria in the 19th – early 20th century
Education:
PhD, Department of Bulgarian History, Faculty of History, Sofia University St Kliment Ohridski
MA, Department of Bulgarian History, Faculty of History, Sofia University St Kliment Ohridski
Contact:
email: anikolov2003@yahoo.com
Dr. Angel Nikolov (1971, Sofia) is Assosiate Professor in Medieval Bulgarian History at the Faculty of History, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, since 2011. His research interests include the fields of medieval Bulgarian history, Bulgarian-Byzantine political and cultural relations, medieval religious controversy between the Eastern Orthodox and Catholic Church, medieval political thought, religious and artistic contacts between Muscovy, Mount Athos and Bulgarian lands during 16th – 17th century, Russian traveller and scientific accounts about the cultural heritage of Bulgaria in the 19th – early 20th century.
Besides his official university studies he has received extra specialization through research and work in Oxford, Saarbrücken, Cracow, Bucharest, Belgrade. He is member of the Association of the Byzantinists and Medievalists in Bulgaria and of the International Advisory Board of the Waldemar Ceran Research Centre for the History and Culture of the Mediterranean Area and South-East Europe at the Institute of History of the University of Lodz (Poland). He is on the editorial board of Slovĕne. International Journal of Slavic Studies (Moscow).