30.906, Books: Voices on Birchbark: Schaeken

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Subject: 30.906, Books: Voices on Birchbark: Schaeken

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Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2019 17:24:06
From: Elisa Perotti [perotti at brill.com]
Subject: Voices on Birchbark: Schaeken

 


Title: Voices on Birchbark 
Subtitle: Everyday Communication in Medieval Russia 
Series Title: SSGL  

Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Brill
	   http://www.brill.com
	

Book URL: http://brill.com/abstract/title/39580?rskey=z1k6i3&result=1 


Author: Jos Schaeken

Electronic: ISBN:  9789004389427 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 95
Electronic: ISBN:  9789004389427 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 114
Hardback: ISBN:  9789004389403 Pages: 230 Price: Europe EURO 105
Hardback: ISBN:  9789004389403 Pages: 230 Price: U.S. $ 126


Abstract:

In Voices on Birchbark Jos Schaeken explores the major role that writing on
birchbark – an ephemeral, even ‘throw-away’ form of correspondence and
administration – played in the vibrant medieval merchant city of Novgorod and
other cities in the Russian Northwest. Birchbark literacy was crucial to the
organization of Novgorodian society; it was integrated into a huge variety of
activities and had a broad social basis; it was used extensively by the laity,
by women as well as men, by villagers as well as landlords. Voices on
Birchbark is the first book-length study of this unique corpus in English. By
examining a representative selection of birchbark texts, Jos Schaeken presents
fascinating vignettes of daily medieval life and a holistic picture of the
pragmatics of communication in pre-modern societies.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Russian (rus)
                     Russian, Old (orv)


Written In: English  (eng)

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