Transferring Jerusalem to Moscow: Maksim Grek’s Letter and Its Afterlife
Abstract Few debates in late seventeenth‐century Muscovy were as heated as the controversy over the naming of the Resurrection “New Jerusalem” Monastery (1656). This essay draws attention to an overlooked sixteenth‐century source, a letter by the Greek‐born Slavic translator Maksim Grek (d.
Justin Willson, Ashley Morse
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Van Waarden, Writing to Survive: A Commentary on Sidonius Apollinaris; Letters Book 7, vol. 1, The Episcopal Letters 1–11. [PDF]
Review of Van Waarden, Writing to ...
Robin Whelan
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Loving Teacher and Grateful Student: Letters of A. A. Dmitrievsky to K. S. Kekelidze, 1906–1929 [PDF]
The proposed material presents the letters of the outstanding Russian liturgist A. A. Dmitrievsky to his former student at the Kiev Theological Academy, Academician of the Georgian Academy of Sciences K. S. Kekelidze. The introductory article gives brief
Sergey Yu. Akishin
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Philip Polcar’s Hieronymus’ Witwenbüchlein für Salvina
In the monograph under review, a revised version of a dissertation submitted at the University of Konstanz in 2019, Polcar sets out to provide a full-scale commentary on a single letter of Jerome’s correspondence such as will be familiar to those who ...
Willum Westenholz
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Qalāwūnid discourse, elite communication and the Mamluk cultural matrix: interpreting a 14th-century panegyric [PDF]
This article analyses a brief panegyric text from mid-14th-century Egypt, authored by the court scribe Ibrāhīm b. al- Qaysarānī (d. 1352) and dedicated to the Qalāwūnid Mamluk sultan al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ Ismāʿīl (r. 1342-5).
Van Steenbergen, Jo
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Korespondencja Janusza Warmińskiego i Kazimierza Dejmka
A selection of letters exchanged between Janusz Warmiński and Kazimierz Dejmek. Both belonged to the generation of Polish theatre directors who started out their careers after the Second World War had ended.
Aneta Kielak-Dudzik, oprac.
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Emigration epistolomania (on the letters of Jan Lechoń and Kazimierz Wierzyński) [PDF]
The review devoted to the epistolography of Polish emigration in the last century on the example of correspondence between Jan Lechoń and Kazimierz Wierzyński, issued by Beata Dorosz and Paweł Kądziela (Warsaw 2016). The author presents the main problems
Osiński, Jakub
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Three Arabic Letters from North Sumatra of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries [PDF]
This article examines three Arabic documents, one from the Sultanate of Samudera-Pasai dated 1516, and two from the Sultanate of Aceh, dated 1602 and 1603, written in the name of Sultan Alauddin Riayat Syah (r.1589–1604).
Peacock, Andrew Charles Spencer
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Politeness in pronouns : third-person reference in Byzantine documentary papyri [PDF]
In many languages, a person can be addressed either in the second person singular or second person plural. While the former indicates familiarity and/or lack of respect, the latter suggests distance and/or respect towards the addressee.
Bentein, Klaas
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“NIEWIADOMOŚĆ [...] NIE JEST OBŁĘDEM”. O LISTACH MARII KOMORNICKIEJ DO MATKI
This paper focuses on the letters (starting in 1907) that Maria Komornicka addressed to her mother, written from the psychiatric and mental institutions where she was confined. Notably, in these writings the first- person voice is a male subject.
Urszula Kowalczuk
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