Анотация: Each year, Netherlands Institute for Advanced in the Humanities and Social Science (NIAS) invites around 50 carefully selected scholars, both from within and outside the Netherlands, to its centre in Wassenaar, where they are given an opportunity do research for a ten-month period or shorter duration. Fellows carry out their work as members of a research theme group or as an individual researcher. NIAS also hosts co-sponsored fellowships. Through its conference facilities, the Institute functions as meeting place for workshop for whit NIAS is an institute of the Roval Netherlands Academy of Arts and Science (KNAW). From the early 1990s onwards, scholars from Eastern Europe, including Bulgaria, have been to spend some months at NIAS, thanks to a series of special Programmes. The contributions in this book show that right from the Bulgarian fellows have been actively involved in the academic community at NIAS, to their own profit and that of the other fellows.