On April 12, 2023 (Wednesday) at 17:00 at the Regional History Museum in Sofia, Retrocafe hall (2nd floor), Banski Square No. 1, the collective monograph MIRABILIA: TIMES, SPACES, MYTHS (Studia balkanica 36 ) will be presented. Compilers and editors: Lozanova-Stancheva, V. and Fol, V. The book is a result of the third interdisciplinary conference on the same topic, held on June 8-9, 2021 at the American Research Center in Sofia (ARCS) and with its courtesy and partnership.

The collective monograph is aimed at research from various points of view, methodology and applying different scholarly tools of the mirabilia-myth relationship in diverse spaces and times. The main goal is to clarify the mechanisms of construction of the mirabilia phenomenon by means of the fundamental categories of time – space – myth in their dynamic interconnection. The focus is on the genesis of myths, their temporal and spatial dimensions in the context of the categories "miracles" and "miraculous". The papers trace the anatomy and evolution of these categories, as well as their metaphorical metamorphoses in sacred and profane contexts. The cultural categories of "miracles" and "myths" with an emphasis on their spatio-temporal parameters are interpreted in their dynamic relationships and functional characteristics in relation to various fields of humanities, such as religion and mythology, literature, politics and language in different historical eras.

The collective monograph is the result of the interdisciplinary research of specialists from the most prominent scholarly units of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and universities in the country: The Institute of Balkan Studies & Centre of Trachology "Prof. Alexander Fol', the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore with Ethnographic Museum, the Institute for History Studies, the Institute for Art Studies at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, the Departments of Classical Philology at the Faculty of Classical and Modern Philology, Theory and History of Culture at the Faculty of Philosophy, Faculty of History, Faculty of Theology of the Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, the Shumen University Bishop Konstantin Preslavski, the University of Library Science and Information Technologies and New Bulgarian University, as well as foreign scholars.

Papers from the previous two conferences Mirabilia: Wonders and Monsters (2014) and Mirabilia: Wonderful and Magical (2018) were published in the Studia Balkanica series:

Mirabilia: Wonders and Monsters. Sofia, 2016 (Studia balkanica 31), (ISSN 978-619-7179-05-7);

Mirabilia: Wonderful and magical. Sofia, 2020, (Studia balkanica 33), (ISSN 978-619-7179-05-7).

Some of them were also published in English in three separate books of Études balkaniques: Études balkaniques LII/1, 2016, Études balkaniques LV/1, 2019 and Études balkaniques VIII/1, 2022. The present edition continues these good traditions.

The publication of the monograph was realized with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Bulgaria.