Partenij Pavlovič – the “wandering monk” as a networker by Raymond Detrez

“… Partenij Pavlovič – the “wandering monk” as a networker Partenij Pavlovič was a Bulgarian monk (ca. 1700–1760) who spent his entire active life in the service of the Serbian Orthodox Churches of Pec and Karlovci. …”
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The Chronicle of the Monk of Sazava and the Kievan Chronicle: A Comparison of the Historigraphical Method by Jitka Komendová

“…The article defines the main characteristic features of the Chronicle of the Monk of Sazava,one of a number of Bohemian Latin historiographic works that belong to the group of so-called continuations of Cosmas’s chronicles (Continuationes Cosmae); the article compares the method of the Monk of Sazava with the method used in Old Russian historiography of the same period, namely in the Kievan Chronicle. …”
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Начальная русь без Начальной летописи: новый виток спора о ранней истории Восточной Европы (Рецензия на книгу: Толочко А. П. 2015. Очерки начальной руси. Киев; Санкт-Петербург: Lau... by Romensky A.A.

“…The author focuses attention on the unreliability of the general scheme of history in the PVL, as well as the information of the alternative source — “Memory and Eulogy” by Jacob the Monk. The structure of Rus’ society is investigated according to the treaties with Byzantium, as well as the treatises of Constantine Porphyrogenitus. …”
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Language Innovations in Manuscripts Attributed to Cyprian the Metropolitan by Tatiana I. Afanasyeva, Viacheslav V. Kozak, Georgii A. Molkov, Evgenii G. Sokolov, Miliausha G. Sharikhina

“…Dionysius the Areopagite represented in MDA 144 (Russian State Library, Moscow) have nothing to do with Cyprian’s literary activities, for this manuscript is a copy of a translation made by Isaiah, a monk at the St. Panteleimonos Monastery on Mount Athos. …”
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The modern legal status of the Mount Athos by Papastatis Haralambos K.

“…It is comprised by twenty monks members, each of whom represents one monastery, 2. the Holy Community's executive organ is the Hiera Epistassia, which comprises four monks drawn annually from four monasteries in rotation. …”
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The last hesychast safe havens in late fourteenth- and fifteenth-century monasteries in the northern Balkans by Popović Svetlana

“…Since then, the complex has been thoroughly rebuilt by the monks who unfortunately devastated the existing medieval remnants. …”
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Contract of loan and protection of debtors against usury in Serbian mediaeval law (regarding the influence of Byzantine law) by Šarkić Srđan

“…Serbian charters and Law Code of Stefan Dušan do not mention the contract of loan, but Saint Archangels’ chrysobull forbids to the monks to let the money at interest.…”
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La diffusione delle opere antilatine di Nilo Cabasilas in manoscritti russi nel XVII secolo by Marco Scarpa

“…Four manuscripts are associated with the activity of the monks Simon Azar’in, Efrem Kvašnin and Sergij Šelonin, who were in Moscow in the 1640s, and are perhaps related to the question of the religious confession of Prince Valdemar, who was designated to marry the Tsar’s daughter. …”
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From the horizontal to the vertical genealogical image of the Nemanjić dynasty by Vojvodić Dragan

“…Apart from that, in contrast to the presentations of XIII century 'horizontal genealogies' that illustrated Nemanja and his direct successors as monks, the new type of dynastic picture quite clearly stressed the 'imperial' nature of the ruler's family. …”
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