UCLA Slavic Studies, New Series, Vol. IV

[Ron Vroon]

Dear Colleagues:


The UCLA Slavic Department is pleased to announce the publication of Volume
IV of UCLA Slavic Studies, New Series, entitled Speculum Slaviae Orientalis:
Ruthenia, Muscovy and Lithuania in the Late Middle Ages (Moskoviia,
Iugo-Zapadnaia Rus' i Litva v period pozdnego srednevekov'ia), edited by
Vyacheslav V. Ivanov and Julia Verkholantsev and published in Moscow (Novoe
Izdatel'stvo, 2005; Hardcover - 256 pages, ISBN: 5-98379-028-5) . This
collection of essays examines a number of issues in late medieval East
Slavic cultural and intellectual history with the particular focus on
Muscovy and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Among the central topics of this
book are the multilingual and multiconfessional cultural milieus in these
lands, interaction between Muscovite and Ruthenian cultures, and contact
between the Eastern Slavs and non-Slavic peoples residing within and outside
their ethnic terrain. This book will be of special interest to cultural
historians, philologists and linguists.


Articles include:
--Giovanna Brogi Bercoff:  Plurilinguism in Russia and in the Ruthenian
Lands in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Сenturies. The Сase of Stefan Javors
'kyj

--Elena Boudovskaia: Innovative Endings of Gpl A-Stems in Four
Transcarpathian Villages

--Pietro U. Dini: Views on Languages and Polyglossia in the Grand Duchy of
Lithuania according to Johannes Stobnica's Epitoma Europe (1512)

--David Frick: The Councilor and the Baker's Wife: Ruthenians and Their
Language in Seventeenth-Century Vilnius

--Alexei Gippius: Russkoe "neknizhnoe" zhitie Nikolaia Chudotvortsa v
iazykovoi situatsii Litovskoi i Moskovskoi Rusi XV-XVII vv.

--Mikhail Gronas: Strikusy Re-Revisited: An Amendment to Jacobson's Reading
of an Obscure Passage in Slovo o Polku Igoreve

--Vyacheslav V. Ivanov: Iazyki, iazykovye sem'i i iazykovye soiuzy vnutri
Velikogo kniazhestva Litovskogo

--Gail Lenhoff: The Cult of Metropolitan Iona and the Conceptualization of
Ecclesiastical Authority in Muscovy

--Robert Romanchuk: The Reception of the Judaizer Corpus in Ruthenia and
Muscovy: A Case Study of the Logic of Al-Ghazzali, the "Cipher in Squares,"
and the Laodicean Epistle

--Stanislav A. Shvabrin: The Imagined Interlocutor in Kurbskii's History of
the Grand Prince of Moscow

--Moshe Taube: The Fifteenth-Century Ruthenian Translations from Hebrew and
the Heresy of the Judaizers: Is There a Connection?

--Fedor Uspenskii: Zametki o bytovanii otchestv v domongol'skoi i Moskovskoi
Rusi

--William R. Veder: Dead on Arrival: Why Church Slavic Would Not Be
Reanimated

--Julia Verkholantsev: Renaissance Anecdotes? Caucasian Slavs and Slavic
Caucasians in Sixteenth-Century Historiography and Linguistics



The book may be purchased at http://www.esterum.com and many fine Moscow
bookstores!



For the Editorial Board--

Ronald Vroon

Chair

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