New Publication

[Strakhov, Olga]

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 Belаrus'. 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 М. 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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