Translation

Materials and Tools Used To Create Medieval Russian Manuscripts

Below is my translation of the fourth section from Schepkin’s Textbook of Russian Paleography. This chapter briefly covers some of…

Another chapter of Schepkin’s Textbook of Russian Paleography completed. This chapter talks about the dialects of Old Church Slavonic (OCS)…

My first year in grad school for Slavic Languages, one of my classes was on Old Church Slavonic (OCS) or…

One of my previous blog posts (Deciphering Medieval Cyrillic for Russian SCA Calligraphy) provided a basic overview for SCA use…

Several of the articles I’ve read about medieval Russian clothing and embroidery have discussed the various kinds of fabric which…

I recently finished reading and translating an article by M.A. Saburova on medieval Russian garb. This article, published in 1997,…

I have been looking into making a Russian style kaftan for my SCA persona, and came across this interesting article…

One of my favorite medieval Russian manuscripts is the Radziwiłł Chronicle, also known as the Königsberg Chronicle. This book is…

The archeological excavation of the Nerevsky End neighborhood in Novgorod in the 1950s revealed a massive amount of material about…

I am currently reading and translating Kondakov’s book about the Gertrude Codex and its set of Orthodox illuminations, a couple…