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Epigraphic Literacy and Christian Identity: Modes of Written Discourse in the Newly Christian European North
Turnhout :
Brepols Publishers, 2012.
Editor-in-chief: C. Zilmer, J. Jesch
This volume examines the role of epigraphic literacy within the newly introduced Christian culture and the developing tradition of literacy in Northern Europe during the Viking Age and the High Middle Ages. The epigraphic material under scrutiny here originates from Scandinavia and North-West Russia - two regions that were converted to Christianity around the turn of the first millennium. Besides traditional categories of epigraphic sources, such as monumental inscriptions on durable materials, the volume is concerned with more casual inscriptions on less permanent materials. The first part of the book discusses a form of monumental epigraphic literacy manifested on Scandinavian rune stones, with a particular focus on their Christian connections. The second part examines exchanges between Christian culture and ephemeral products of epigraphic literacy, as expressed through Scandinavian rune sticks, East Slavonic birchbark documents and church graffiti. The essays look beyond the traditional sphere of parchment literacy and the Christian discourse of manuscript sources in order to explore the role of epigraphic literacy in the written vernacular cultures of Scandinavia and North-West Russia.
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Gippius A., , in: Epigraphic Literacy and Christian Identity: Modes of Written Discourse in the Newly Christian European North.: Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2012. P. 225–251.
The paper discusses the origin of pragmatic writing in Early Rus’ and its relationship to the Church Slavonic tradition. The emergence of birchbark literacy in Novgorod at about 1030 is treated as a by-product of the spread of church education under the reign of Jaroslav the Wise. The intermingling of lay and ecclesiastic affairs in ...
Added: January 25, 2013
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Поставленный Тертуллианом во II веке вопрос, что может быть общего между Афинами и Иерусалимом, в приложении к нашему времени может звучать так: что может быть об щего между Силиконовой долиной и Иерусалимом? В данном случае Силиконовая до лина — символ современной технотронной цивилизации. Автор статьи строит анало гию, основанную на том, что очевидная в начале ...
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Poddiakov A., / Series Social Science Research Network "Social Science Research Network". 2026. No. 7437658.
Clarity of knowledge and reasoning is necessary in many cases. Yet vagueness in scientific thinking related to surprise, curiosity, "ability to engage with not-knowing" (de Freitas) and abductive reasoning is also a crucially important source of scientific creativity which supplements combinatorial logic when dealing with the already known. Starting from studies by C. S. Peirce ...
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/ Series SSRN Working Paper Series "SSRN Working Paper Series". 2026.
Assessment item development requires careful control of construct alignment, response structure, difficulty, language, and review evidence. Large language models can accelerate item drafting, but ad hoc prompting is difficult to audit or reproduce. AIGRA is an R package for structured, agentic item generation, review, and analysis. It supports tabular item-bank templates, Python-backed generation workflows, direct ...
Added: September 14, 2026
Stefanovich P., Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences 2026 Vol. 96 No. Supplement 3 P. 178–188
The paper provides a review of various interpretations of the concept of rus’/Rus’ land currently
debated in contemporary scholarship. Defining the meaning of this concept is of fundamental importance
for understanding the earliest period of East Slavic statehood, spanning from the 9th to the mid-13th century.
The study demonstrates that the concept of “Old Russian nationality” (drevnerusskaya narodnost’), widely
accepted ...
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Лавренченко М. Л., В кн.: Восточная Европа в древности и средневековье. Чтения памяти члена-корреспондента АН СССР В.Т. Пашуто. Выпуск XXXVIII. Будущее в настоящем: предсказания, знамения, видения, сны.: М.: ИВИ РАН, 2026. С. 109–114.
The article examines the use of the lexeme *veremya* (*vremya*) — in the sense of "possible future conditions" — in the treaties of the Rurikid princes found in the Kievan Chronicle and in treaties of the 13th and 14th centuries. ...
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Vinogradov A., Chkhaidze V., Bulletin of the National Institute of Archaeology 2026 Vol. 51 P. 97–102
The work is dedicated to identifying the Christian name of Prince Rostislav Vladimirovich (CA. 1038-1067/8), ruler the Matarcha-Tmutarakan in 1064-1067/8. In 2016 in Belarus (territory of Polotsk Principality) was found a seal with an image of Annunciation on the obverse and legend "Virgin Mary, save Gabriel Rostislav" on the reverse . It follows that the ...
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Kudriavtseva E., / РЦИС. Серия № 0148-756-286. 2026.
The content of the work is the system is a system for identifying four types of written speech structures. A set of 11 calculated parameters, statistical standards, and semantic characteristics allows for the identification of a text's structure as the result of a specific cognitive schema (scene, event, story, evaluation). The method has been verified ...
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Vorchik A., / SSRN. Серия Social Science Research Network "Social Science Research Network". 2026.
This work is devoted to a theoretical explanation of the Easterlin paradox, according to which long-term economic growth does not make average level of people's happiness increasing. By happiness, we mean the intensity of emotions people experience while comparing their new income with its expected value, or the target income with its original value. In the first case, ...
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Прошин А. В., Древняя Русь. Вопросы медиевистики 2026 № 3 (105) С. 23–35
Статья посвящена текстологическому анализу и сравнению двух некрологов Владимиру Мономаху в Лаврентьевской и Ипатьевской летописях. Автор устанавливает связь обоих текстов в текстологической перспективе и их место в традиции летописных посмертных панегириков. ...
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Прошин А. В., Vox Medii Aevi 2025 Т. 1 (12) С. 13–36
Поскольку древнерусским князьям приходилось постоянно принимать участие в походах и сражениях, идеал правителя должен был, несомненно, отражать представления о них как о воинах. Предполагаемая рядом исследователей первостепенная важность воинского образа
князей, включающего их ратные и полководческие качества, однако, не находит подтверждения среди летописных некрологов (посмертных панегириков). Эти текст конструируют посмертный образ князя, отмечая его важнейшие качества ...
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Strizhkova D., / Институт русской литературы (Пушкинский Дом) РАН. Серия B001 "Репозиторий открытых данных по русской литературе и фольклору". 2026.
В базе данных представлена роспись русскоязычных литературных произведений и отрывков, напечатанных в учебниках по словесности, хрестоматиях, книгах для чтения, сборниках стихотворений и рассказов, выходивших во Франции, Германии, Латвии, Эстонии, Болгарии, Сербии в период первой волны русской эмиграции с 1918 по 1939 гг. Датасет представляет интерес для исследователей школьного литературного канона, эмиграции и детского чтения ...
Added: April 22, 2026
Жигунов А. Ю., / Basic Research Programme. Серия HUM "Humanities". 2026. № 1.
The article attempts to describe the features of the educational potential of Russian animation programmes in aspect of the representation of traditional spiritual and moral values. Based on media and semiotic analysis, the method of cultural and historical interpretation, animated Russian projects created from 2000 to the 2025, which were translated on television channels or streaming ...
Added: April 19, 2026
Артамонов Ю. А., Палеоросия. Древняя Русь: во времени, в личностях, в идеях 2025 № 4 С. 122–131
В статье анализируются названия монастырей Киева домонгольского времени. Автор приходит к выводу, что наиболее широко в этот период использовались агиотопонимы ― названия, образованные от церковных праздников, которым были посвящены соборные храмы монастырей. Иногда они дополнялись указаниями
на местность, где располагались иноческие общины. Необходимость в этих географических уточнениях возрастала по мере увеличения численности киевских монастырей. Использование притяжательных антропотопонимов было ...
Added: March 1, 2026
Артамонов Ю. А., Gippius A., Древняя Русь. Вопросы медиевистики 2025 С. 24–42
The article continues a series of publications on Slavonic-Russian graffiti from the 11th–15th centuries found in the St. Sophia Cathedral (Hagia Sophia) of Constantinople. The reader is offered a description of nine inscriptions identified and recorded in 2008–2009 in the northern gallery. ...
Added: March 1, 2026
Gippius A., В кн.: Русское денежное обращение IX—XVII вековТ. 2: Нумизматический сборник к 70-летию Петра Григорьевича Гайдукова.: М.: Институт археологии Российской академии наук, 2025. С. 62–68.
Th e article continues the series of works on Old Russian money-weight systems, launched by the publication of the Novgorod birchbark document No. 1072 of the late 12th century. Th e critical analysis of the alternative interpretation of this document, proposed by A. A. Kupranis and A. A. Popov (2019), allows the author to stay ...
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Малахов В. С., Симон М. Е., Летняков Д. Э. et al., / SSRN. Серия Social Science Research Network "Social Science Research Network". 2020.
The notion of “political accommodation” applied to the theory and practice of managing cultural diversity could enrich the Russian academic dictionary. Liberal democratic states invented specific mechanisms for political accommodation of cultural differences. Thanks to these mechanisms, the part of the population of a democratic state that is not ready to dissolve into the ethnocultural ...
Added: September 26, 2025
Vinogradov A., В кн.: ΔΙΔΑΣΚΑΛΟΣ ΚΑΙ ΣΟΦΟΣ. Сборник статей к 90-летию И.П. Медведева.: СПб.: Индрик, 2025. С. 169–185.
Added: September 23, 2025
Stefanovich P., В кн.: Восточная Европа в древности и средневековье. Чтения памяти члена-корреспондента АН СССР В. Т. Пашуто. Выпуск XXXVII. Этно- и топонимия в социокультурных практикахВып. 37: Этно- и топонимия в социокультурных практиках.: М.: ИВИ РАН, 2025. С. 209–211.
The expression "Russian universe," which appears several times in ancient Russian sources, is analyzed. It is concluded that its meaning is similar to the expression "Russian world." ...
Added: September 23, 2025
Egorov E., Slavonic and East European Review 2026 Vol. 104 No. 2 P. 305–330
Advocates of pan-Scandinavianism in the mid-19th century hoped to establish a union between Denmark and Sweden-Norway, strong enough to counter potential external aggression. By 1864, as the Second Schleswig War unfolded, the possibility of a Scandinavian union became a conceivable outcome of the conflict. The Russian Emperor Alexander II and his foreign minister Alexander Gorchakov ...
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Gippius A., Вопросы языкознания 2025 № 4 С. 7–41
This article contains a preliminary publication of 30 birchbark letters found during the 2024 archaeological season at the Troitsky excavation in Veliky Novgorod. The vast majority of the published texts date back to the 12th century. Most important in historical and philological terms are the following items: a letter mentioning a military campaign and related ...
Added: September 21, 2025
Melville A. Y., Каберник В. В., Mironyuk M. et al., / МГИМО МИД России. 2024.
Данный аналитический доклад является одним из результатов исследований в рамках консорциума НИУ ВШЭ и МГИМО. В нем прежде всего раскрыты вопросы концептуализации национальной мощи и сопутствующих категорий и дается обзор прецедентов. Далее рассматриваются вопросы операционализации предлагаемых нами компонентов национальной мощи. В следующих разделах доклада предлагается анализ вопросов методологии, используемой в докладе. На этой основе предложен ...
Added: September 19, 2025
М.: ИРИ РАН, ИА РАН, 2025.
The collection contains the materials of the XIII International Conference „An integrated approach to the study of old Rus’.” The central theme of the conference is the anniversary date: the 900th anniversary of the death of Vladimir Monomakh. The authors of the collection's articles are historians, archaeologists, historians of the church, historians of literature and ...
Added: September 18, 2025
Lifshits A., Славяноведение 2025 № 6 С. 91–101
N. M. Karamzin was the first to call Afanasy Nikitin a merchant and compare him to European diamond traders. The opinion expressed by Karamzin became almost generally accepted. However, a comparison of the “Troitsky” copy of the literary monument known to Karamzin with other variants of the text shows that the historian had no direct ...
Added: September 10, 2025
Щавелев А. С., Электронный научно-образовательный журнал "История" 2025 Т. 16 № 4(150) Статья 19
The paper describes how the Old Russian literature of the 11th — 13th centuries represented the horseman subculture of the Rus’ people of the 10th — 13th centuries, based on the martial brotherhood of the horse and its rider. Transition to heavy cavalry became military revolution of the first millennium of New Era in the ...
Added: July 26, 2025