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Author : Simon Franklin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108492577
Explores a new approach to the history of writing, and a guide to writing in the history of Russia.
Author : Simon Franklin,Katherine Bowers
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783743766
From the mid-sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century Russia was transformed from a moderate-sized, land-locked principality into the largest empire on earth. How did systems of information and communication shape and reflect this extraordinary change? Information and Mechanisms of Communication in Russia, 1600-1850 brings together a range of contributions to shed some light on this complex question. Communication networks such as the postal service and the gathering and circulation of news are examined alongside the growth of a bureaucratic apparatus that informed the government about its country and its people. The inscription of space is considered from the point of view of mapping and the changing public ‘graphosphere’ of signs and monuments. More than a series of institutional histories, this book is concerned with the way Russia discovered itself, envisioned itself and represented itself to its people. Innovative and scholarly, this collection breaks new ground in its approach to communication and information as a field of study in Russia. More broadly, it is an accessible contribution to pre-modern information studies, taking as its basis a country whose history often serves to challenge habitual Western models of development. It is important reading not only for specialists in Russian Studies, but also for students and non-Russianists who are interested in the history of information and communications.
Author : Simon Franklin,Emma Widdis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2004-06-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521839266
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Author : Stephen K. Batalden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107355439
Although biblical texts were known in Church Slavonic as early as the ninth century, translation of the Bible into Russian came about only in the nineteenth century. Modern scriptural translation generated major religious and cultural conflict within the Russian Orthodox church. The resulting divisions left church authority particularly vulnerable to political pressures exerted upon it in the twentieth century. Russian Bible Wars illuminates the fundamental issues of authority that have divided modern Russian religious culture. Set within the theoretical debate over secularization, the volume clarifies why the Russian Bible was issued relatively late and amidst great controversy. Stephen Batalden's study traces the development of biblical translation into Russian and of the 'Bible wars' that then occurred in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Russia. The annotated bibliography of the Russian Bible identifies the different editions and their publication history.
Author : Jacqueline Stedall
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-23
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780191633966
Mathematics is a fundamental human activity that can be practised and understood in a multitude of ways; indeed, mathematical ideas themselves are far from being fixed, but are adapted and changed by their passage across periods and cultures. In this Very Short Introduction, Jacqueline Stedall explores the rich historical and cultural diversity of mathematical endeavour from the distant past to the present day. Arranged thematically, to exemplify the varied contexts in which people have learned, used, and handed on mathematics, she also includes illustrative case studies drawn from a range of times and places, including early imperial China, the medieval Islamic world, and nineteenth-century Britain. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Author : Simon Dixon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1999-07-29
Category : History
ISBN : 052137961X
This is the first book to place Russia's 'long' eighteenth century squarely in its European context. The conceptual framework is set out in an opening critique of modernisation which, while rejecting its linear implications, maintains its focus on the relationship between government, economy and society. Following a chronological introduction, a series of thematic chapters (covering topics such as finance and taxation, society, government and politics, culture, ideology, and economy) emphasise the ways in which Russia's international ambitions as an emerging great power provoked administrative and fiscal reforms with wide-ranging (and often unanticipated) social consequences. This thematic analysis allows Simon Dixon to demonstrate that the more the tsars tried to modernise their state, the more backward their empire became. A chronology and critical bibliography are also provided to allow students to discover more about this colourful period of Russian history.
Author : Simon Franklin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2002-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139434546
This book provides a thorough survey and analysis of the emergence and functions of written culture in Rus (covering roughly the modern East Slav lands of European Russia, Ukraine and Belarus). Part I introduces the full range of types of writing: the scripts and languages, the materials, the social and physical contexts, ranging from builders' scratches on bricks through to luxurious parchment manuscripts. Part II presents a series of thematic studies of the 'socio-cultural dynamics' of writing, in order to reveal and explain distinctive features in the Rus assimilation of the technology. The comparative approach means that the book may also serve as a case-study for those with a broader interest either in medieval uses of writing or in the social and cultural history of information technologies. Overall, the impressive scholarship and idiosyncratic wit of this volume commend it to students and specialists in Russian history and literature alike. Awarded the Alec Nove Prize, given by the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies for the best book of 2002 in Russian, Soviet or Post-Soviet studies.
Author : Sean Griffin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107156760
The first major study of the relationship between liturgy and historiography in early medieval Rus.
Author : Esperança Bielsa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000478518
The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Media provides the first comprehensive account of the role of translation in the media, which has become a thriving area of research in recent decades. It offers theoretical and methodological perspectives on translation and media in the digital age, as well as analyses of a wide diversity of media contexts and translation forms. Divided into four parts with an editor introduction, the 33 chapters are written by leading international experts and provide a critical survey of each area with suggestions for further reading. The Handbook aims to showcase innovative approaches and developments, bridging the gap between currently separate disciplinary subfields and pointing to potential synergies and broad research topics and issues. With a broad-ranging, critical and interdisciplinary perspective, this Handbook is an indispensable resource for all students and researchers of translation studies, audiovisual translation, journalism studies, film studies and media studies.
Author : Tamara Atkin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317079897
Reading Drama in Tudor England is about the print invention of drama as a category of text designed for readerly consumption. Arguing that plays were made legible by the printed paratexts that accompanied them, it shows that by the middle of the sixteenth century it was possible to market a play for leisure-time reading. Offering a detailed analysis of such features as title-pages, character lists, and other paratextual front matter, it suggests that even before the establishment of successful permanent playhouses, playbooks adopted recognisable conventions that not only announced their categorical status and genre but also suggested appropriate forms of use. As well as a survey of implied reading practices, this study is also about the historical owners and readers of plays. Examining the marks of use that survive in copies of early printed plays, it explores the habits of compilation and annotation that reflect the striking and often unpredictable uses to which early owners subjected their playbooks.
Author : Steven G. Marks
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107108684
A provocative new book calling into question everything we thought we knew about capitalism and what makes it unique.
Author : Jan-Melissa Schramm
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198826064
Throughout the nineteenth century, the performance of sacred drama on the English public stage was prohibited by law and custom left over from the Reformation: successive Examiners of Plays, under the control of the Lord Chamberlain's Office, censored and suppressed both devotional and blasphemous plays alike. Whilst the Biblical sublime found expression in the visual arts, the epic, and the oratorio, nineteenth-century spoken drama remained secular by force of precedent and law. The maintenance of this ban was underpinned by Protestant anxieties about bodily performance, impersonation, and the power of the image that persisted long after the Reformation, and that were in fact bolstered by the return of Catholicism to public prominence after the passage of the Catholic Relief Act in 1829 and the restoration of the Catholic Archbishoprics in 1850. But even as anti-Catholic prejudice at mid-century reached new heights, the turn towards medievalism in the visual arts, antiquarianism in literary history, and the 'popular' in constitutional reform placed England's pre- Reformation past at the centre of debates about the uses of the public stage and the functions of a truly national drama. This book explores the recovery of the texts of the extant mystery-play cycles undertaken by antiquarians in the early nineteenth century and the eventual return of sacred drama to English public theatres at the start of the twentieth century. Consequently, law, literature, politics, and theatre history are brought into conversation with one another in order to illuminate the history of sacred drama and Protestant ant-theatricalism in England in the long nineteenth-century.
Author : Simeon Dekker
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004353206
A corpus of medieval Russian letters is investigated from a pragmatic angle, in order to identify linguistic parameters that demonstrate the development from orality to literacy in the communicative practices of the time.
Author : Simon Franklin,Rebecca Reich,Emma Widdis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Russian literature
ISBN : 1108493483
"The essential, authoritative new guide to Russian literature, this innovative volume considers literature's multiple parallel histories ranging from the medieval period to the internet age. With contributions from thirty-four world-leading scholars, it offers a fresh approach to literary history, not as one integral narrative but as multiple parallel histories. Each of its four strands tells a story of Russian literature according to a defined criterion: Movements, Mechanisms, Forms and Heroes. At the same time, six clusters of shorter themed essays suggest additional perspectives and criteria for further study and research. In dialogue, these histories invite a multiplicity of readings, both within and across the narrative strands. The open but easily navigable structure enables engagement with both traditional literary concerns and radical reconceptualisations of Russian culture"--
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Church Slavic literature
ISBN : 1932650083
The authors included in this volume, Ilarion, Klim Smoljatic and Kirill of Turov, are remarkable for both their personal and literary achievements. Simon Franklin prefaces the texts with a substantial introduction that places each of the three authors in their historical context.
