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Relationship and Source of Whitings Used as a Painting Ground in Icons From Polish Museum Collections Based on Their Calcareous Nannofossil Content

Archaeometry, Volume 68, Issue 1, Page 132-143, February 2026.
ABSTRACT In icon painting, chalk whiting is key to creating a gesso ground, providing a smooth, absorbent surface for paint. Calcareous nannofossils, tiny marine skeletons found in chalk, are an ideal tool for analyzing the origin of an icon's chalk ground, often the only reliable information about where the icon came from.
Mariusz Kędzierski, Mirosław P. Kruk
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Język staro-cerkiewno-słowiański: źródło inspiracji czy zbędny balast? O możliwościach wykorzystania gramatyki języka scs. w nauce współczesnych języków słowiańskich

Studia z Filologii Polskiej i Słowiańskiej
The Old Church Slavonic Language: A Source of Inspiration or an Unnecessary Burden? On the Possibilities of Using OCS Grammar in the Teaching and Learning of Modern Slavic Languages The aim of this article was to investigate the status of the Old ...
Przemysław Fałowski
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St. Jerome's Homilies in the Medieval Old-Church Slavonic Translations (in Proprium de tempore)

Edinost in Dialog, 2020
Readers from the homilies of St. Jerome were translated from Latin into Church Slavonic, probably when the Church Slavonic version of the breviary was created in the mid-13th century, when Pope Innocent IV.
Petra Stankovska
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The language of the Story of the Sage Ahiqar from Serbian Manuscript No. 53 of the National Library of Serbia [PDF]

Južnoslovenski Filolog, 2016
In terms of homogeneous diglossia, the basic characteristic of the Serbian mediaeval language situation, the usage of two language systems, Serbian Church Slavonic and Old Serbian, were clearly functionally demarcated.
Kurešević Marina F.
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Shades of empire: Evidence from Swedish and Polish–Lithuanian partitions in the Baltics

The Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 1, Page 342-376, February 2026.
Abstract In this study, we explore the long‐run effects of Swedish and Polish–Lithuanian imperial legacies in the Baltic region. Using a robust regression discontinuity design, we identify persistent differences in socio‐economic development across the South Livonia–Courland and the South Livonia–Lettgallia borders that emerged as a result of the ...
Theocharis N. Grigoriadis, Alise Vitola
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The Martyrdom of Nadezhda Kurchenko: Soviet Hero Cults and the Spiritual Turn in Late Socialism

The Russian Review, Volume 85, Issue 1, Page 69-87, January 2026.
Abstract This article argues that the spiritual turn in Soviet atheism under Brezhnev provided a meaningful solution to the problems of producing heroes when self‐sacrificing martyrs were losing their appeal. To support this claim, I examine the story of Nadezhda Kurchenko, a nineteen‐year‐old flight attendant killed by two hijackers on an Aeroflot ...
Steven E. Harris
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The Role of Contact in Explaining Linguistic Convergence1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 479-513, November 2025.
Abstract In this paper, I explore the question of how linguistic convergence emerges and what the role of contact might be. My case study is the spread of headed relative clauses built around wh‐relative markers in the Standard Average European languages.
Nikolas Gisborne
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The meaning of the Croatian Church Slavonic stem smêr- and translation into Old Church Slavonic

, 2008
Semantička raščlamba biblijskih primjera hrvatskocrkvenoslavenske osnove sъmêr- provedena na osnovi njezine morfologije i scenarija izrečenih prirodnim semantičkim metajezikom pokazuje da se grčka osnova ταπειν- značenjski razlikuje od svojega prijevoda,
Vida Lučić, Lučić, Vida
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Řečtina jako pramen lexikálních výpůjček neřeckého původu v staroslověnštině : (semitismy: hebraismy a arameismy)

Opera slavica, 2008
In the рrосеss of coming into existence Old Church Slavonic in its function оf а literary language included and incorporated а powerful Greek lехiсаl component. Its sоurсеs were both the wording оf original Greek texts translated into Old Church Slavonic
Radoslav Večerka
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Predicative Possession in Ukrainian and Intra‐Slavonic Language Contact1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 428-459, November 2025.
Abstract Ukrainian has two inherited syntactic forms for possessive have: a transitive one with a lexical have‐verb, and an intransitive, originally locative be‐construction. On the basis of four corpus studies, the article establishes their relative frequency in Middle Ukrainian writing (17th and 18th c.), Modern Ukrainian dialects (20th c.), and ...
Jan Fellerer
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