New Publication

[dworth at UCLA.EDU]

Dear Doctor Strakhov,

      Please send vol. 16 1-2: 300 Bellino Drive, Pacific Palisades,  
CA 90272-3103. Thanks and best wishes, Dean Worth



Quoting "Strakhov, Olga" <strakhov at GSD.HARVARD.EDU>:

> Dear All,
>
> I am glad to announce that Volume XVI (nos. 1-2) of PALAEOSLAVICA:   
> International Journal for the Study of Slavic Medieval Literature,   
> History, Language and Ethnology for 2008 has been published.
>
>
>
> NO. 1 of PALAEOSLAVICA XVI (2008) consists of four sections. The   
> Articles section contains a study by T. POPOVA and O. STRAKHOV on   
> the Greek original and earliest Slavic translation of the 150   
> Chapters by Makarius of Egypt; an article by A. MAIOROV on lexemes   
> used in 18th-century East Siberean manuscripts to describe a   
> person's physical appearance; A. STRAKHOV's article on Slavic and   
> Ancient Greek parallels to a Russian fortune-telling ritual; and M.   
> BOBUNOVA's survey of dictionaries of Russian folk songs. The   
> Publications section presents a text of Alexandria as it is   
> preserved in the Troitskii Chronograph (beginning of the 15th   
> century; publ. by T. VILKUL); some documents concerning the grain   
> supply for the Russian Tsar House in the 17th century (publ. by L.   
> ASTAKHINA) and folk narratives about popular medicine (publ. by T.   
> VOLODINA) and demonology (publ. by G. LOPATIN) as recorded in modern  
>  Bel?rus'. The Speculum section contains an article by A. STRAKHOV   
> about some mistakes and/or inappropriate lexicographical   
> interpretations attested in the multi-volumed Slovar' russkikh   
> narodnykh govorov. The Miscellanea section contains notes by A.   
> TOLOCHKO, M. LOBANOV et al.
>
>
>
> NO. 2 of PALAEOSLAVICA XVI (2008) also consists of four sections.   
> The Articles section presents a posthumous article by M. GAL'CHENKO   
> on the language and orthography of the 13th-century Lestvitsa kept   
> in RGADA (fund 181, no. 452), an article by V. CHENTSOVA on certain   
> mysterious circumstances surrounding Greek-Muscovite contacts in the  
>  40s-60s of the 17th century; and a study by A. STRAKHOV on popular   
> cults of John the Baptist and John the Theologian and the Virgin   
> Mary. The Publications section presents Slovo o bezgnevii i krotosti  
>  by John Climacus following the oldest extant Slavic manu-script   
> (publ. by T. POPOVA), some seventeenth-century texts from Siberia   
> (publ. by L. GORODILOVA) and folk narratives about birds and   
> relevant superstitions recorded in modern Ukraine and Belarus'   
> (publ. by A. STRAKHOV). The Speculum section contains two reviews:   
> the first, by O. STRAKHOV who questions A.A. Gippius's opinion of   
> linguo-textological stratification of the so-called Initial   
> Chronicle, and by D. OSTROWSKI who analyzes Mari Isoaho's recent   
> book on Alexander Nevskii. The Miscellanea section con-tains notes   
> by ?. SEMINA, A. KHROLENKO et al.
>
>
>
> For a detailed Table of Contents see  see  
> http://palaeoslavica.com/_wsn/page3.html (encoding: Unicode UTF-8)
>
> Subscription rates per volume XVI/2008 (nos. 1-2) are $50 for   
> individuals and $100 for institutions, including postage or write to  
>  palaeoslavica at gmail.com
>
>
>
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