Author: David DjaparidzéPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manuscripts, Slavic
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Mediaeval Slavic Manuscripts
Author: David DjaparidzéPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manuscripts, Slavic
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Enigma in Rus and Medieval Slavic Cultures
Author: Ágnes KrizaPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110779226
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Enigma in Rus and Medieval Slavic Cultures is a thematic essay volume to investigate the history and function of enigma in Orthodox Slavic cultures with a special focus on the cultural history of Rus and Muscovy. Its seventeen case studies across disciplinary boundaries analyze Slavic biblical and patristic translations, liturgical commentaries, occult divinatory texts, and dream interpretations. Slavic riddles inscribed on walls and compilations of riddles in question-and-answer format are all subjects of this volume. Not only written, but also pictorial enigmas are examined, together with their relationships to texts suggesting novel methodologies for their deciphering. This kaleidoscopic survey of Enigma in Rus and Medieval Slavic Cultures by an international group of scholars demonstrates the historiographical challenges that medieval enigmatic thought poses for researchers and offers new approaches to the interpretation of medieval sources, both verbal and visual.
The Gospels of Tsar Ivan Alexander
Author: Ekaterina DimitrovaPublisher:
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
The Gospels of Tsar Ivan Alexander is the outstanding treasure of a cultural and spiritual Renaissance in fourteenth-century Bulgaria, and a masterpiece of Byzantine manuscript art. The Gospels' creation was not only the supreme achievement of Bulgarian medieval culture; it also marked its final flourishing, 500 years after the introduction of Christianity and the Cyrillic script into Bulgaria and shortly before the country's collapse under the invasion of the Ottoman Turks. Commissioned, in 1355 for Tsar Ivan Alexander, the Gospels was completed in just one year by a single scribe, Simeon, and by artists of the Turnovo school, the Bulgarian capital, ecclesiastical and cultural centre, of the time. It contains 367 miniatures, among which is an outstanding portrait of the Tsar himself and his family. Following the fall of Turnovo in 1393, the manuscript was moved to safety across the Danube to Moldavia. By the early seventeenth century it was in the monastery of St Paul on Mount Athos and it was here that in 1837 the young Hon. Robert Curzon contrived to acquire it as a souvenir of his visit.
Medieval Slavic Manuscripts and SGML
Author: Anisava MiltenovaPublisher:
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Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Medieval Slavic Studies
Author: Roman JakobsonPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110863901
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Old Russian Birchbark Letters
Author: Simeon DekkerPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004353208
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
This study is devoted to a corpus of Old Russian letters, written on pieces of birchbark. These unique texts from Novgorod and surroundings give us an exceptional impression of everyday life in medieval Russian society. In this study, the birchbark letters are addressed from a pragmatic angle. Linguistic parameters are identified that shed light on the degree to which literacy had gained ground in communicative processes. It is demonstrated that the birchbark letters occupy an intermediate position between orality and literacy. On the one hand, oral habits of communication persisted, as reflected in how the birchbark letters are phrased; on the other hand, literate modes of expression emerged, as seen in the development of normative conventions and literate formulae.
Medieval Manuscript Miscellanies
Author: The Bible in Slavic Tradition
Author: Alexander KulikPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004313672
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
This volume contains selected papers from an international conference held in 2009 in Varna, Bulgaria. The papers represent major trends and developments in current research on the medieval Slavonic biblical tradition, primarily in comparison with Greek and Hebrew texts. The volume covers the translation of the canonical, apocryphal and pseudepigraphical books of the Old and New Testaments and its development over the ninth to sixteenth centuries. Another focus is on issues relating to Cyril and Methodius, the creators of the first Slavonic alphabet in the ninth century and the first translators of biblical books into Slavonic. The analytical approach in the volume is interdisciplinary, applying methodologies from textual criticism, philology, cultural and political history, and theology. It should be of value to Slavists, Hebraists and Byzantinists.
Medieval Slavonic Studies
Author: Juan Antonio Alvarez-PedrozaPublisher: Institut d'Etudes Slaves
ISBN:
Category : Slavic languages
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Patriarch Nikon on Church and State
Author: Valerie A. TuminsPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110801280
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
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