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The Place of the Mihanović Psalter in the Fourteenth-Century Revisions of the Church Slavonic Psalter [PDF]
Modern scholarship on the textual history of Church Slavonic biblical translation recognizes two distinct revisions of the Church Slavonic Psalter from the early fourteenth century, Redaction III (sometimes called the ‘Athonite’ redaction) and Redaction ...
Catherine Mary MacRobert
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The Psalter in the Canon [PDF]
The Psalter, read as a coherent book instead of being read as 150 independent poems, reveals some patterns and a continuum of ideas, which might not express the editors’ original intention, but support the readers’ understanding of this canonical book ...
Knud Jeppesen
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Translation and circulation of Romanian and Slavonic biblical books in the Romanian lands: a textual analysis of the sixteenth century Apostolos and Psalter texts [PDF]
This thesis is concerned with the early rise of old Romanian as a written language, as represented by the textual traditions of biblical books translated from Church Slavonic.
Burlacu, Constanța
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Lower‐Class Reading in Late Imperial Russia
Abstract This article demonstrates widespread engagement of lower‐class people with the written word in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Russian Empire, in rural and urban locales, in homes, workplaces, and social spaces. We explore how lower‐class people read: the daily habits, personal relationships, and social spaces that shaped ...
Sarah Badcock, Felix Cowan
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Loss of MID in English: Free Peasantry and Their Linguistic Advantage
Abstract The paper deals with the mysterious loss of a common preposition MID in the historical development of English. The issue is examined using a quantitative method combined with a historical sociolinguistic focus on the free peasantry in the East Midlands and Kent.
Rongkun Liu
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Bibliography of the Utrecht Psalter
Bibliography of publications about the Utrecht Psalter up to ...
Bart Jaski (Utrecht University) +1 more
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The Knightly Brothers of Bernard of Clairvaux and the Twelfth‐Century Cistercian Lay Monk*
Abbot Bernard of Clairvaux (r. 1115–1153) was a prominent twelfth‐century religious leader whose knightly family collectively converted to monastic life with him in adulthood around 1113. Following Clairvaux's foundation in 1115, Bernard's brothers held roles of significant estate seniority despite their own professional limitations as newly converted ...
Joseph Millan‐Cole
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Abstract This essay examines the use of psalm structures, rhetoric, and poetics in the devotional poetry of Hester Pulter, a mid‐seventeenth‐century Royalist manuscript poet. Scholarship has shown the adaptability of the voice of the psalms, how it is amendable to both an ‘I’ and a ‘we’ simultaneously.
Nikolina Hatton
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Abstract The remains of Amani, a century‐old scientific laboratory in Tanzania, are quintessential modern relics. When anthropologists turn to such infrastructures of, originally colonial, knowledge‐making, their own implication with the object of their study – and with its epistemological and political‐economic origins and order – becomes part of the ...
P. Wenzel Geissler
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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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