New Book Publications in Early Slavic Studies
JUST PUBLISHED:
Daniel C. Waugh and Ingrid Maier, Cross-Cultural Communication in Early Modern Russia: Foreign News in Context. Seattle and Uppsala, 2023. [2], 893 pp., with 61 illustrations.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6069/XCSQ-BF71
An open-access book in electronic format published in ResearchWorks at the University of Washington libraries. The volume may downloaded from the ResearchWorks webpage accessible though the DOI link above.
The book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States.
This is a work about the acquisition of foreign news in
Dear Colleagues,
I am glad to announce that after three years of dedicated work, our edited volume on foreign migrants in Muscovy has recently been published by Routledge. Based on papers presented in Vienna in December 2019, the volume contains a total of twelve contributions from authors of various historical disciplines and perspectives.
You can buy copies here: www.routledge.com (the discount code "FLE22" is still valid until 31 March)
Dear Daniel, again, thank you very much for these helpful overviews! I am glad, we can catalogue your book notices here at H-EarlySlavic.
Since you reviewed the Russian books: just out of curiosity - how difficult did it become now to order and ship the books from Russia to the US? Or do you work mostly with the e-versions?
The descriptive book notices below are not formal reviews but rather quick summary information about the publications, even if I interject some personal opinions, in one case at some length. The books are ones in Russian which I have recently acquired; thus the selection makes no claim to “cover the field” of important publications in the broadly conceived “Early Slavic” field.
Daniel Waugh
Shoreline, WA, USA
13 January 2023
Included here are the following:
- Sbornik statei, posviashchennykh Iuriiu Dmitrievichiu Rykovu (1946-2020)
- Knizhnye tsentry Drevnei Rusi. Rostovo-Iaroslavskaia zemlia
- Piotrovsk
Book notices, 24 June 2022.
By
Daniel C. Waugh
Here are three additions to my previous set of notices. I am copying the latter below too, since they were sent only to the ESSA mailing list and not posted then to H-Net for archiving. The new volumes are:
Oborneva, Perevodchiki s grecheskogo iazyka Posol’skogo prikaza (1613-1645 gg.).
Ramazanova, Ital’ianskaia shkola brat’ev Likhudov v Moskve (1697-1700 gg.).
Dadykin and Erofeeva. Knigi kirillicheskoi pechati XVI-XVII vekov v Nauchnoi biblioteke Moskovskogo universiteta. Katalog.
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Z[inaida] E[vgen’evna] Oborneva. Perevodchiki s grecheskogo iazyka
Prompted by Gleb Kazakov’s helpful supplement to my book notices, I found two of the books he listed among those on my shelf, and an additional volume which I had not included in my own posting. Since he did not have time to do more than list books, as a retiree with nothing else to do (sic!) and not having to worry about promotion or tenure, I can produce some notes. In fact the first two of these books have some direct relevance for my current projects.
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A[drian] A[leksandrovich] Selin. Moskovskie karantiny. Bor’ba s “morovymi povetriiami” v XVI-XVII vv. v Novgorode i Pskove. Sankt
Dear readers of H-EarlySlavic,
Following up on the wonderful overview of recent book titles in Early Slavic studies, which was posted by Daniel Waugh just a couple of days ago, I would love to bring some more books to your attention, which made it into my list of library acquisitions during the past two years. I apologize, that I can't offer you full reviews, as Daniel does it, but I still hope that the list itself might prove useful for some of you. On the list I added a few books of German scholars, just to promote a little bit the current German research on Slavic history pre-1700, which
Thank you very much Daniel for this wonderful overview of the recent titles! We surely missed your thorough book discussions, which you used to post here on H-EarlySlavic. We appreciate your work! I always find it practical to have such lists of current titles at hand when f.ex. faced with the task of ordering new books for our university library.
Books from the time of pandemic: notes and comments
It is customary for reviewers and news editors to compile at the end of each year lists of the “significant” books that had appeared during the year now ending. The selection here of nearly three dozen titles is a personal one, which should in no way be taken to rank these books against others that are not mentioned which have also appeared in the past two years (2020-2021 imprints). They are books which I found of interest to obtain for my own library and/or were sent to me by authors or editors. The focus of the list is books pertaining to
A repost from the H-Net Book Channel. The book itself came out in November 2018, but the announcement appeared on the Book Channel just recently. This monography by Stefan Plaggenborg touches upon the questions of just rulership and sacral order in medieval Russia
Author: Stefan Plaggenborg Title: Pravda: Gerechtigkeit, Herrschaft und sakrale Ordnung in Altrussland Publisher: Wilhelm Fink Publication Date: 1/11/2018 ISBN: 9783770554805 Hardcover (German)
A new article on the politics of religion concerning the Early Balkan Slavic studies:
Albert Doja, "In Hoc Signo Vinces: The Politics of Religion as a Source of Power and Conflict." Politics, Religion & Ideology, vol. 20, no. 4, 2019, pp. 447-466. https://doi.org/10.1080/21567689.2019.1697871.
In addition to ethnographic and sociological data, I used a historical analysis of the legacy of Constantine the Great to which the title refers, along with some other examples from the medieval history of Slavic and other Balkan societies. Among historical cases are the religious politics of the medieval
Dear all,
I have noticed that the winners of the ESSA Book and Article Prize 2019 have not yet been announced here on the network. I would like to share this information:
2019 Prize Winners
The Book Prize winner: Marika Mägi, In Austrvegr: The Role of the Eastern Baltic in Viking Age Communication across the Baltic Sea (Brill 2018).
The prize committee writes:
The scope of this book is far broader than the title might suggest. It amounts to a substantial rethinking of the history of the eastern Baltic from the tenth to the thirteenth century, based on both archaelogical and written evidence. The
Patrik Gordon / Patrick Gordon. Dnevnik 1696-1698 / Diary 1696-1698. Perevod s angliiskogo, stat’ia i primechaniia D. G. Fedosova. Moskva: Nauka, 2018. 324 [+4] pp. + 8 pp. plates. ISBN 978-5-02-040036-8.
With this volume, one of the most important source publications pertaining to Muscovy ever to appear is nearing an end. Over two decades, Dmitrii Fedosov (who has an uncanny fluency in English) has produced both the annotated Russian translations of Patrick Gordon’s diary (this final volume is no. 6) and the edition of the English original being published by Aberdeen University Press (the
A[leksei] A[natol’evich] Frolov. Novgorodskie pistsovye knigi: istochniki i metody issledovaniia. Moskva; Sankt-Peterburg: Al’ians-Arkheo, 2017. 648 pp. + 32 color plates. ISBN 978-5-98874-142-8.
A proper review of this impressive and, I believe, hugely important volume can be written only by someone who has worked very seriously with the Novgorod cadastres. I can but merely suggest why this book merits being in any library collection used by early Russia specialists.
The history of the publication and use of the Novgorod material is a long one, six volumes of what we might call the “basic
N[ataliia] A[leksandrovna] Mudrova. Biblioteka Stroganovykh (vtoraia polovina XVI-nachalo XVIII v.). Ekaterinburg: UrO RAN, 2015. 540 pp. + 20 pp. color plates. ISBN 978-5-691-2379-5.
While this book has been out for some time now, a few notes on it may yet be in order here, given its importance and the fact that publications from Ekaterinburg may not always be as widely known as they deserve. The book is of interest not only for the substance of what it tells us about the book collecting of a very famous family but also for what it says about the methodologies which must still be pursued if we