New Books in Early Slavic Studies
Ringing in the New Year: Notices about some recent books of interest.
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.
Book Notices of recent scholarship
Book notices, 24 June 2022.
More books from the pandemic years - Update
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.
Books from the time of pandemic: notes and comments
Books from the time of pandemic: notes and comments
New Book: Fedosov's translation of the final volume of Gordon's diary
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.
Frolov on the Novgorodskie pistsovye knigi
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.
The Libraries of the Stroganovs
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.
The Recent Excavations in the Novgorod Kremlin
Novgorodskii detinets i Vladychnyi dvor v XI-XV vv. [Otvetstvennyi redaktor-sostavitel’ M(arina) A(natol’evna) Rodionova]. Sankt-Peterburg: “Dmitrii Bulanin”, 2017. 264 pp. + 144 pp. color illustrations. ISBN 978-5-86007-840-6.
Presniakov’s essays on the study of Russian chronicles
A[leksandr] E[vgen’evich] Presniakov. Russkoe letopisanie. Istoriografiia i istoriia. Sostavitel’ S. V. Chirkov. Otv. red. S. M. Kashtanov. Moskva: Novyi khronograf, 2017. 272 pp. ISBN 978-5-94881-335-6.
More tamozhennye knigi
Tamozhennye knigi Sukhono-Dvinskogo puti XVII v. Sostaviteli S. N. Kisterev, L. A. Timoshina. Vyp. 5. Sankt-Peterburg: “Kontrast”, 2017. 344 pp. ISBN 978-5-4380-0138-6.
Tamozhennye knigi Sukhono-Dvinskogo puti XVII v. Sostaviteli S. N. Kisterev, L.A. Timoshina Vyp. 6. Sankt-Peterburg: “Kontrast”, 2017. 152 pp. ISBN 978-5-4380-0140-9.
Re: Irina Vasil’evna Pozdeeva on the history of Muscovite printed books
I am delighted to see that finally one of the interminable postings I do about books has provoked a response and hope that this exchange will not be one of the last on EarlySlavic, if no one has stepped forward to take over being the list moderator.
The 17th-century Moscow publication of the Kormchaia kniga
E[lena] V[ladimorovna] Beliakova, L[iudmila] V[ladmirovna] Moshkova, and T[at’iana] A[natol’evna] Oparina. Kormchaia kniga: ot rukopisnoi traditsii k pechatnomu izdaniiu. Moskva; Sankt-Peterburg: Institut rossiiskoi istorii RAN; Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi arkhiv drevnikh aktov; Tsentr gumanitarnykh initsiativ, 2017. 496 pp. + 16 color plates. ISBN 978-5-8055-0316-1.
Re: Irina Vasil’evna Pozdeeva on the history of Muscovite printed books
Daniel Waugh’s review raises many important issues related to early printing in Muscovy. One of them is the complex relationship between printed books and manuscripts. I could not agree more with Dan’s assessment of I. V. Pozdeeva’s enormous contribution to our understanding of this problem. However, the whole idea of juxtaposing printed and manuscript cultures, and correspondingly the debate about which culture had a greater impact on Muscovy seem to become increasingly irrelevant.
Irina Vasil’evna Pozdeeva on the history of Muscovite printed books
I[rina] V[asil’evna] Pozdeeva. Chelovek. Kniga. Istoriia. Moskovskaia pechat’ XVII veka. Moskva: Fantom-press, 2016. 576 pp. + 24 pp. color plates. ISBN 978-5-86471-745-5.
The new volume of the kuranty
Vesti-kuranty 1671-1672 gg. Podgotovka tekstov, issledovaniia, kommentarii, ukazateli I. Maier, S. M. Shamina, A. V. Kuznetsovoi, I. A. Kornilaevoi i V. B. Krys’ko pri uchastii E. V. Amanovoi. Pod redaktsiei V. B. Krys’ko i Ingrid Maier. Moskva: Azbukovnik, 2017. 806 pp. ISBN 978-5-91172-150-3.
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