Another chapter of Schepkin’s Textbook of Russian Paleography completed. This chapter talks about the dialects of Old Church Slavonic (OCS)…
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Old Slavonic and the Slavonic Alphabets
My first year in grad school for Slavic Languages, one of my classes was on Old Church Slavonic (OCS) or…
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One of my previous blog posts (Deciphering Medieval Cyrillic for Russian SCA Calligraphy) provided a basic overview for SCA use…
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Several of the articles I’ve read about medieval Russian clothing and embroidery have discussed the various kinds of fabric which…
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I recently finished reading and translating an article by M.A. Saburova on medieval Russian garb. This article, published in 1997,…
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I have been looking into making a Russian style kaftan for my SCA persona, and came across this interesting article…
Continue ReadingElements of Medieval Russian Life as Depicted in the Königsberg Chronicle
One of my favorite medieval Russian manuscripts is the Radziwiłł Chronicle, also known as the Königsberg Chronicle. This book is…
Continue ReadingThe Blacksmithing Arts of Novgorod the Great
The archeological excavation of the Nerevsky End neighborhood in Novgorod in the 1950s revealed a massive amount of material about…
Continue ReadingDepictions of the Russian Royal Family in 11th-century Miniatures (Part II)
I am currently reading and translating Kondakov’s book about the Gertrude Codex and its set of Orthodox illuminations, a couple…
Continue ReadingDepictions of the Russian Royal Family in 11th-century Miniatures (Part I)
I am currently reading and translating a book written in 1906 about a fascinating piece of history, the so-called Egbert…
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