Cyrillic Manuscript Heritage
Volume 16 December 2004
The Ohio State THE HILANDAR RESEARCH LIBRARY Columbus University THE RESOURCE CENTER FOR MEDIEVAL SLAVIC STUDIES Ohio Library Renovations To Affect HRL/RCMSS Services to Continue As Usual The renovation of the William Oxley of approximately the Thompson Memorial (“Main”) Library will same size as the two affect the Hilandar Research Library (HRL) rooms we now have in and the Resource Center for Medieval the Main Library. We are Slavic Studies (RCMSS) for the next sev- grateful to the Admin- eral years and well into the future. Our ser- istration of the OSU Li- vice to the community of medieval Slavic braries for accommodat- scholars, researchers, and students, how- ing HRL’s special needs, ever, will proceed with minimal disruption. which include on-site In summer 2005, the HRL and RCMSS teaching. It is our inten- are scheduled to move from their current tion to continue our location on the second floor of the OSU various activities and Main Library to temporary quarters at 650 services with only a Ackerman Road, approximately 3 miles brief interruption while from the OSU main campus. The majority packing and unpacking Architect’s Rendering: Southwest View of the Future Renovated of the other offices and reading rooms of take place. The moving William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library the Main Library will also be housed in process is currently the “ABB” building. HRL and RCMSS will scheduled to take place next summer. We HRL/RCMSS AND THE FUTURE occupy a secure location on the second will remain in the ABB building for ap- Upon our return (circa 2008), the HRL floor of the ABB Ackerman Road building proximately three years. We look forward and RCMSS will become part of a new, ex- to providing our new address, as well as panded special collections’ complex par- INSIDE FEATURES additional details, in our next issue. tially occupying the first two floors of the Main Library. This complex will include Director’s Desk - Page 2 space for HRL and RCMSS and three other special collections of the OSU Libraries RCMSS Advisory Council Profile - Halina Regrettably, due to the necessary (OSUL): Rare Books and Manuscripts, the Stephan, Director, OSU Center for Slavic and preparations and timing of the move, William Charvat Collection of American East European Studies. Page 3 Fiction (second largest such collection in Mons Athos Minor - Zheravna, Bulgaria the 2005 Medieval Slavic North America), and the “Jerome Lawrence conference summary and photos. Page 4 Summer Institute and Robert E. Lee” Theatre Research In- HRL News Notes - Pages 5-7 has been cancelled. stitute Library. The prominent location of a common special collections reading room HRL Journal - Page 7 We apologize for any inconvenience and permanent exhibit areas will benefit fu- MSSI Alumni Update - Pages 8-9 this may cause. ture users of these four OSUL special col- lections. Other OSUL special collections will Recent Bibliography - Page 10 continue to be housed in their current lo- Gifts in Kind, Donors - Page 11 cations in other OSU library buildings. continued on Page 7 2 Cyrillic Manuscript Heritage December 2004
Director’s Desk Dr. Predrag Matejic
While meetings background and history of the formation cated to “Mount Athos Minor.” Both to plan the moves of the HRL/RCMSS. The RCMSS OSU Ad- M.A. Johnson and I presented papers for the next four visory Council therefore approved an in- and, at the invitation of the conference years have taken vitation to Dr. Miroljub Jokovic´ of Serbia- organizers, made a joint presentation on time over the past Montenegro to review the archives of the the history and activities of the HRL and months, our regu- former Hilandar Research Project (HRP) RCMSS. We saw numerous friends from lar activities have and interview several scholars and admin- our 5th International Hilandar Confer- continued. We istrators involved in the early history of ence in Raška, Serbia (2002). have again been the HRP and the subsequent establish- In October, I was privileged to be one fortunate to host ment of the HRL and RCMSS. Dr. Jokovic´ of twelve speakers at the Third Annual several scholars, has prepared a brief history based on Colloquium of Holy Trinity Orthodox Semi- including Jennifer these archival documents and OSU’s oral nary (Jordanville, NY): The Trinity-Sergius Spock (Eastern Kentucky Univ.), David history program, as well as additional in- Lavra in Russian History and Culture. Goldfrank (Georgetown Univ.), Robert formation found in HRL/RCMSS publi- There, in addition to touring the beautiful Romanchuk (Florida State Univ. in Talla- cations and other sources. Nataša Kaurin- complex of the monastery and seminary, hassee), and Irina Barclay (Appalachian Karaˇca, RCMSS graduate research asso- I was able to present new information on State Univ.). In addition, a brief visit was ciate, is currently translating the text into a text of the Life of St. Sergius found in made in May by John V. A. Fine, Jr., the English. The goal is to publish this archi- Hilandar manuscript #485. Again, I was third speaker in our inaugural 2003-2004 val history simultaneously in English and happy to see still more colleagues from Byzantino-Slavic Lecture Series. Professor Serbo-Croatian editions in 2005. our 5th International Hilandar Conference. Fine was accompanied by two of his gradu- Earlier this year, my father, the Very Just before the Jordanville conference, I ate students, Ian Mladjov and Dimitrios Rev. Dr. Mateja Matejic, and I accepted spent a pleasant day in discussions with Krallis, from the Univ. of Michigan. Will- the invitation of the Serbian Heritage Edward Kasinec, Curator, Slavic and Bal- iam Veder and Emilia Guergova of Chi- Women’s Society of Windsor, Canada, to tic Division, New York Public Library. cago, as well as Svetlana Kuiumdzhieva address a fund-raising event organized of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, to assist in the reconstruction of Hilandar also made brief visits. Monastery on Mount Athos. We were For those who may wish to help us and the The 2004-2005 Byzantino-Slavic Lecture asked to discuss the tragedy of the OSU Libraries in funding our renovation Series “Archaeology and the Medieval monastery’s March 4th fire and its impact campaign, please see the back page of this Balkans,” has already begun. Florin Curta, on Eastern Orthodoxy and world culture, issue. professor of medieval history and archae- as well as to give an account of our own ology at the Univ. of Florida in Gainsville, preservation activities at the HRL. The fire delivered a fascinating lecture entitled and its aftermath were also the subject of CYRILLIC MANUSCRIPT “The Making of the Slavs in Greece: the a conversation in September between me Setton-Charanis Controversy Revisited.” and the Bishop of Ziˇˇ ca. Bishop Hrisostom, HERITAGE Dr. Curta focused on certain archaeologi- former librarian at Hilandar Monastery, cal finds in the Balkans and what they im- made clear that it will be years before the Director: PREDRAG MATEJIC Assistant Curator: M.A. JOHNSON ply about the migration and incursion of monastery is repaired and restored. Managing Editor: HELENE SENECAL the Slavs into that area during the 6th-7th My September trip to Serbia, prima- centuries. Professor Timothy Gregory of Media Consultant: LORRAINE ABRAHAM rily Belgrade, was intended to show our Contributing Editor: the OSU History department and of Dum- continued willingness to cooperate and Nataša Kaurin-Karaˇca barton Oaks will present the second lec- collaborate on scholarly activities related ture of this series during the winter. to Hilandar Monastery and the preser- Hilandar Research Library While Russian Fulbright scholar Yulia vation of the Cyrillic manuscript heritage. Resource Center for Artamonova left in early September, late As such, numerous conversations were Medieval Slavic Studies September saw the arrival of Nina Voutova, held with administrators of the Serbian The Ohio State University Fulbright scholar from Bulgaria. As Deputy National Library, including its new direc- 225/227 Main Library Director of the Bulgarian National Library, tor, Sreten Ugriˇcic´. Later that month, I was 1858 Neil Avenue Mall Dr. Voutova will also use this opportunity pleased to welcome a delegation from the Columbus, Ohio 43210-1286 to discuss broader cooperative issues be- National Library in Columbus. While still tween the OSU Libraries and the National in Serbia, I also spoke with Milan Jakˇsic´, Telephone: 614-292-0634 Library in Sofia. Dr. Voutova is accompa- director of the Archives in Panˇcevo, and Fax: 614-292-7859 nied by her daughter, Petya Atanasova. Slobodan Mileusnic´, Curator, Museum of E-mail: [email protected] On our own various travels to different the Serbian Orthodox Church. Website address: countries, we have often been faced with Prior to my trip to Serbia, I attended a www.cmrs.osu.edu/rcmss/ the realization that few people know the conference in Zheravna, Bulgaria, dedi- December 2004 Cyrillic Manuscript Heritage 3
RCMSS OSU ADVISORY COUNCIL PROFILE By Halina Stephan
Shortly after being named Director of cultural heritage as it is cultivated and pre- from socialist realist journalist to émigré the Center for Slavic and East European served at The Ohio State University. dissident playwright. Among the more Studies (CSEES), I joined the RCMSS In those moments, I always think of absurd scenes associated with Mrozek, OSU Advisory Board. I came to The Ohio Leon Twarog, a person of incredible vi- I recall my visit with him on his ranch State University four years ago and, as a sion and determination, who established under a Mexican volcano, when I tried to professor in Slavic and East European not only the OSU Slavic Department, the convince him and his wife that his return Languages and Literatures, I was imme- Slavic Center, and the Slavic Library col- to Krakow would be good both for him lection, but also had the foresight and per- and for the Polish literary scene. A few sistence to find administrative support for weeks after my visit, Mrozek indeed an- the V. Rev. Dr. Mateja Matejic’s first offi- nounced his decision to settle in Krakow cial visit to Hilandar Monastery. That visit – with or without my influence. was the beginning of an amazing project, More recently, I edited a volume of which was the forerunner by many years essays on the postwar Polish literary emi- of other microfilming initiatives aimed at gration to the United States. I have also the preservation of medieval manuscripts worked on the image of America in recent in Russia and Southeastern and Eastern Polish literature. Whenever I have a Europe. In a way, RCMSS for me repre- chance to return to the topic of Russian sents almost the successful combination culture, though, I work on my ongoing of American ingenuity with a deep respect project, a book on Larisa Reisner, a prose Halina Stephan, Director, Center for and understanding of the spiritual and his- writer of the 1920s and a “celebrity” of the Slavic and East European Studies torical value of the medieval core of Slavic early Soviet period. This spring I intend civilization. to spend some time in Moscow archives diately struck by the richness of the While I appreciate the HRL, my own in order to complete my collection of docu- university’s infrastructure for Slavic Stud- research activities tend toward the more ments on Reisner. ies. In addition to an excellent library, a modern period. Having grown up in post- In terms of research, I most enjoy my very active and collegial Department of war Poland, I have developed great in- work on Mrozek. His works are directly Slavic and East European Languages and terest in the roots of Soviet culture and its related to my Polish past and provide a Literatures, and a vibrant Slavic Center, transformations in Poland. I earned a Ph.D. vehicle for understanding a period that I Ohio State offers something that no other in Slavic Languages and Literatures from personally experienced. Also, this project school with any type of Slavic program the University of Michigan and have puts me in contact with colleagues at the has – namely, the Resource Center for taught at the University of Southern Cali- Jagiellonian University in Krakow and al- Medieval Slavic Studies and the Hilandar fornia and the University of Florida. Sev- lows me to work with one of the leading Research Library. eral of my first research projects dealt with publishers in Poland. I am not a medievalist by training, so early Soviet avant-garde literature – po- But beyond research, I must confess I have a rather romantic attitude towards etry, prose and drama – that offered initial that I really enjoy the administrative work the Hilandar collection. I remain surprised models for the Soviet culture in the 1920s. of the CSEES, one of several government- by the fact that, in the middle of the Ameri- The LEF movement, under Mayakovsky’s funded international centers at OSU. Be- can Midwest at a state university, there leadership, for example, provided an es- ing its director allows me to interact with is an institution dedicated to the preser- pecially interesting case of avant-garde Slavic faculty and students at OSU and vation and cultivation of the core of the art and literature promoted as the proto- in the state of Ohio. It also gives me in- Cyrillic cultural heritage. Not only its manu- type of Soviet culture. An equally inter- sight into the U.S. government’s perspec- script collection – unique as it is – but also esting issue for me was the reception of tive of Slavic Studies. And it daily pro- the place itself, the staff and the general Soviet art and literature from the 1920s in vides me with an opportunity to become atmosphere of great respect and profes- Western Europe – including the ideologi- involved in interesting projects – confer- sionalism evoke an instant connection to cal and artistic impact of the Soviet avant- ences, lectures, meetings – that are ex- the distant world of monks, monasteries, garde on Western art. tremely diverse, ranging from Central and the mysteries of the medieval world. I On the Polish side, I have written about Asian agriculture to Yiddish film. It is a am very proud of the fact that our Slavic Slawomir Mrozek, a playwright and short rare pleasure and privilege to be engaged Studies at Ohio State have that real and story writer, who best personified the Pol- in such a broad range of activities in the intensive link to Slavic culture, and I make ish response to the traditions of Socialist Slavic field and to have the opportunity sure that every visitor to campus, espe- Realism and became later known as the to contribute to Slavic Studies by admin- cially those who come to us from Eastern “father of the Socialist Absurd.” My book istering a National Resource Center of Europe, has the opportunity to visit the on Mrozek was the first complete presen- the U. S. Title VI Program. HRL and to be surprised by the Slavic tation of the development of this author 4 Cyrillic Manuscript Heritage December 2004 Picturesque Zheravna: Site Of Bulgarian Conference “Mons Athos Minor”
The conference Mons Athos Minor, organized by the Uni- versity of Sofia “St. Clement of Ohrid” Department of Cyrillo- Methodian Studies, Sofia, Bulgaria, on 2-5 September 2004, took place in the museum village of Zheravna, which is located in the Sliven region of central-eastern Bulgaria. Iskra Khristova- Shomova, head of the Cyrillo-Methodian faculty, and her col- league, Margaret Dimitrova chose an appropriate and extremely pictur- esque setting for their international meeting. “Mons The Dimitˇur Dobrevich Art Gallery in Zheravna was the site Athos Minor” – of the conference plenary, as well as several panel sessions. Malkata Sveta Gora in Bulgarian tour of her beloved village. The walking tour concluded with a – was the name visit to her home in Zheravna, where her family had lived for A house in Zheravna, Bulgaria given to large mo- more than a century. nastic centers that The conference itself was well organized, integrating the were usually surrounded by several smaller monasteries. Such individual papers into over a dozen thematically linked ses- was the area of Kotel, Sliven, and Zheravna in Bulgaria’s late sions that offered thought-provok- Middle Ages and Early National Revival periods. The confer- ing topics and lively debate. The ence was enthusiastically supported by the local community international participants from eight leaders and officials, well aware of their region’s rich cultural different countries, in particular, heritage. were impressed by the hospitality The conference was held in honor of Professor and Dean and abundant, cultural history of Donka Petkanova, the founder and first chair of the Faculty of Zheravna. Cyrillo-Methodian Studies at Predrag Matejic and M. A. John- Sofia University. Two other son were asked to give a separate highly respected academi- one-hour presentation on the history cians from the Sliven region and current work of RCMSS and the were also acknowledged with HRL. Several conference participants a panel dedicated to each of interjected positive remarks about the them: the session on “Kotel,” HRL/RCMSS based on their own personal experiences using including presentations on the OSU resources. An the Kotel scriptorium, was in outcome of the presen- honor of its native, Krasimir tation, in addition to an Stanchev (Rome), while the increase in requests for “Malkata Sveta gora” session, materials and research featuring papers on Fruška assistance from a num- gora (Serbia), Bachkovo mon- ber of the scholars, was Dimitrinka Dimitrova-Marinova & a unanimous resolution Konstantinos Nikhoritis tour astery (located south of Plov- Zheravna with Donka Petkanova div, Bulgaria), and monaster- of support and gratitude ies of the southwest and the by conference partici- Sliven-Kotel areas, was dedicated to Ivan Dobrev, professor pants toward the staff, of Bulgarian linguistics at Sofia University. One of the high- supporters, and univer- lights of the conference was the day that Professor Petkanova, sity for the work of the a proud native of Zheravna, personally conducted a walking HRL and RCMSS. Dining in a local restaurant December 2004 Cyrillic Manuscript Heritage 5 HRL/RCMSS NEWS NOTES: Introducing the HRL/RCMSS Intern
The HRL/RCMSS was contacted earlier this Northern Europe spanning from 1000 A.D. quarter about participating in a mentoring pro- - 1600 A.D. After meeting with Dr. Matejic, gram designed to expose and educate senior I was given the opportunity to intern in high school students to possible future careers. the HRL. I am getting a good overall view After meeting with student Anna Grothaus, Dr. of what curatorial, archival and professo- Predrag Matejic agreed to oversee her project. Anna’s account follows: rial work would be like. I absolutely love it so far and can definitely see myself My name is Anna Grothaus and I am doing this for many, many years to come. a student intern in the Hilandar Research Dr. Matejic is supervising my project, Library. As part of my mentorship program which involves organizing over 150 pho- High School Senior Anna Grothaus at Olentangy High School, I am supposed tographs of Bulgarians and American to observe and identify careers that might missionaries in Bulgaria during the 19th dar and I am very thankful that the HRL be of interest to me. I am an 18-year old century. I am learning that you have to agreed to sponsor this internship for me. high school senior and plan on attending love this work in order to complete it. This After leaving in December, I will be taking The Ohio State University in the fall of 2005. project may not be thrilling for most, but I with me a greater understanding and ap- I would like to major in Medieval and Re- enjoy the work and the sense of accom- preciation of Slavic history and culture. naissance Studies and minor in Art His- plishment and learning the project pro- Hilandar has been a great resource and has tory or Latin. I enjoy History very much, vides. Eastern Europe was not my first provided useful guidance to me to begin especially that of Western Europe and choice of study, but I am glad I found Hilan- working towards my goals.
Bulgarian Awarded Fulbright Scholarship
My name is Nina Voutova and I am the took this opportunity to become ac- well suited for research in the HRL – the Deputy Director of the “St. Cyril and St. quainted with American culture. world’s largest repository of medieval Methodius” National Library in Sofia, Bul- It is a well known scholarly fact that, for Slavic manuscripts on microforms, which garia. As a research associate, my special a number of objective historical reasons, features material from over 100 collections the great majority of manuscripts found in 23 countries. The HRL also boasts lacks any written indication of the an exceptionally valuable collection of wa- time of their creation. Watermark termark tracings traced by the V. Rev. Dr. evidence can largely solve this im- Mateja Matejic and identified and pro- portant problem since these marks cessed by Predrag Matejic, Director of the can provide a reliable basis for the Resource Center for Medieval Slavic Stud- dating of the paper used in numer- ies and Curator of the Hilandar Research ous manuscripts. Library. Studying 14th- and 15th-century I would like to express my respectful Slavic and Byzantine manuscripts and sincere gratitude to Professor Matejic (on paper) and working in the for the opportunity to work in the Hilandar field of watermark studies (“fili- Research Library – the best place for the Nina Voutova and daughter Petya Atanasova granology”) for over two decades, implementation of the proposed project, I have done my best to amass suf- for his valuable advice, for his kindness field of interest is the Slavic manuscript ficient empirical evidence that naturally al- and for his support. I am also grateful for heritage with a concentration on the sub- lows me to come to certain conclusions the help and guidance of M. A. Johnson, ject of paper and the analysis of water- regarding the literary tradition in the Bal- assistant curator, and to Helene Senecal, marks in paper. My research project, Evi- kans from this early period. Thus, a com- center coordinator, as well as to Nataša dence of Watermarks in 14th- and 15th- parative analysis of watermarks found in Kaurin-Karaˇca, RCMSS graduate research century Slavic and Byzantine Manu- Slavic and Byzantine manuscripts copied associate. All this, the exceptionally abun- scripts, was selected for a Fulbright Schol- in the period of the initial appearance of dant information and resources stored in arship last autumn. I arrived in Septem- paper as a writing material in the Balkans in the HRL and the cordial attention of my ber 2004 to begin five months of research both the 14th and 15th centuries – when colleagues surrounding me, make me be- on my project in the Hilandar Research use of the new material was finally estab- lieve that my Fulbright experience will be Library. In October, I was joined by my lished on a mass scale – prompted me to highly rewarding both professionally and daughter, Petya, a high school senior, who propose my research topic. This project is personally. 6 Cyrillic Manuscript Heritage December 2004
HRL NEWS NOTES, continued Orthodox Church Museum and Ecclesi- “Raška Proceedings” to astical Library in Hungary (Budai görög szerb egha´zmegyei könyvta’r) were micro- Appear in Two Volumes Serbian Librarians filmed in order to be preserved and made available at OSU. We take this moment to Work is nearly complete on the first Tour Hilandar once again acknowledge and express our volume of the Selected Proceedings of the gratitude to Academician Stojan Vujiˇcic´ 5th International Hilandar Conference: Research Library and to his wife, Marietta, without whom Love of Learning and Devotion to God this important task could not have been in Orthodox Monasteries (Raška, 2002). accomplished. Stojan and Marietta made The decision to publish the proceedings the time spent in Hungary so memorable in two volumes was encouraged by the and thus, we remember and honor them. OSU Advisory Board to RCMSS, and dis- cussed in detail with the Raška organiz- ers. The text soon will be sent to Dr. Miro- ljub Jokovic´, to be published in Raška Slavic Medieval Journal with the financial support of RCMSS. The Polata Knigopisnaia volume of nearly 400 pages represents ap- Finds New Home in proximately one-half of all the materials to U.S. State Department escort Ljuba Ruˇzica reads be published and comprises twenty-four aloud from an item from the HRL’s Constantin OSUL Cyberspace papers from the first six panel sessions of A. Fotitch Archives, 27 September 2004. the Raška conference: the opening plenary As part of a U.S. Department of State Discussions have concluded and a session, “Manuscript Studies,” “Learning “International Visitor Program,” four In- Memorandum of Understanding has been in Monasteries,” “Epigraphy,” “Monastic formation and Resource Management and signed between the OSU Libraries and Centers and Culture,” and “Saints as Na- Library Service librarians from the National Polata Knigopisnaia, an international tional Symbols.” (See CMH 12, pages 10- Library of Serbia in Belgrade spent an af- journal for medieval Slavic studies, which 13, for the full conference program.) We ternoon at the OSU Main Library famil- was first issued in 1978. With these for- look forward to the publication of volume iarizing themselves with the organization, malities resolved, Dr. William R. Veder, two before the end of 2005. operations, and preservation and access editor-in-chief and co-founder (with Mario activities of the HRL/RCMSS. The visi- Capaldo) of the journal, has constituted a tors included Biljana Kosanovic´, head of new Editorial Board, whose members in- the Scientific Information and Reference clude Cristiano Diddi (University of Saler- Works, Vesna Injac-Malbaša, director for no, Italy), HRL Assistant Curator M.A. International Relations and Library Coun- selor, Tanja Tasic´, Cataloger and Catalog Johnson, and Robert Romanchuk (Florida Editor, and Milorad Vuˇckovic´-Braco, Bib- State University). Dr. Romanchuk is a me- liographer and Virtual Library Counselor. dievalist, whose forthcoming book, Monks and Masters, examines the history of read- ing and the development of academic cul- Remembering Stojan ture in late medieval Russia. Cristiano Diddi is the author of the 2001 publication Pate- Vujiˇcic´ and Microfilming rik rimskii: dialogi Grigoriia Velikogo v in Szentendre, Hungary drevneslavianskom perevode. Materials for Volume 33 are now in the Call for Papers at process of being edited and will be forth- The Ohio State University coming in electronic form as part of the HRL/RCMSS website. Future volumes of Columbus, Ohio the journal will be available in electronic form only. In addition, back issues will be Midwest Slavic Conference mounted on the Internet and made acces- 3-5 March 2005 sible to all. The journal will be offered free- of-charge. Specific information on access The Midwest Slavic Association, OSU Photo of the grave of Stojan Vujiˇcic´ in Budapest - courtesy of Mrs. Cathy Vrugitz will be forthcoming. Slavic Center and Office of International We are excited that the first electronic Affairs are sponsoring the 2005 Midwest This year marks the 20th anniversary journal of the OSU Libraries will be Polata Slavic Conference at the Blackwell Hotel of the HRL microfilming expedition to Knigopisnaia, the highly respected “in- and Conference Center on campus. Szentendre, Hungary, where, in the space formation bulletin devoted to the study The conference will open with a key- of three weeks, 250 Cyrillic and other manu- of early Slavic books, texts and literatures,” note address and reception on March 3rd, scripts and printed books of the Serbian previously published in the Netherlands. Thursday evening, followed by two days December 2004 Cyrillic Manuscript Heritage 7
HRL NEWS NOTES, continued Portuguese; the Foreign Language Center, Humanities Information Systems, and the HRL Journal of academic and business-related panels. Department of Comparative Studies. The Slavic Department’s new address is: In this feature, Cyrillic Manuscript Heritage Conference organizers invite proposals for asks researchers who have used the Hilandar Re- panels or individual papers addressing all search Library in the past year, in person or by Department of Slavic and East European mail, to describe their experiences and work. disciplines related to Slavic histories, po- Languages and Literatures litical science, literatures, linguistics, so- 400 Hagerty Hall Historical Toponymy ciology, economics, and other fields. 1775 College Road Please email a one-paragraph abstract The Ohio State University of the Tver Region and brief c. v. to
1999 2001 Bojan Belic´ Alexander Kyrychenko I do not know whether I have any I have entered a Ph.D. New Testa- achievements that are worth men- ment program at Emory University tioning in the newsletter. It is sim- in Georgia this year. It is difficult to ply that I keep working on my dis- tell at this stage on what I will be sertation and teaching at OSU dur- writing my dissertation. Probably a ing the year and at the University topic connected to Pauline studies. of Pittsburgh in the summers. Noth- ing exciting, I guess!
Monica M. White Georgi R. Parpulov I recently submitted my dissertation Moved to LA for an eight-month – needless to say, it’s a huge relief fellowship at the Dept. of Manu- and I’m very pleased. Finishing it scripts, J. Paul Getty Museum. over the past couple of months has Spends weekends on the beach. meant that I’ve been a bit of a slouch Successfully defended disserta- about correspondence, so please for- tion in November. Pictured here give me! Submitted the dissertation enjoying a visit to New Orleans. September 30th, started a research fellowship at Clare College on the 1st of October. New research topic: Dragon-slaying Legends of the Medieval Orthodox World. Doug Rogers Doug Rogers is a Postdoctoral Fel- 2003 low in the Department of Anthropo- logy and The Havighurst Center for Kevin M. Bray Russian and Post-Soviet Studies at Miami University, Ohio. His article, I graduated in November, having “Moonshine, Money, and the Poli- finished my MA in Russian and East tics of Liquidity in Rural Russia” will European Studies at the Centre for appear in American Ethnologist Russian and East European Studies, 32.1, February 2005. “It has nothing University of Toronto. I based my whatsoever to do with manuscripts.” MA major paper on SZEN.GRA.52, He has also written an article for a special issue of Religion, the Grabovac Letopis’, working first State, and Society entitled, “Introductory Essay: The Anthropo- from an HRL copy and then with the logy of Religion After Socialism” (forthcoming January 2005). original in Hungary. My greatest news, though, is that I recently became a very proud uncle.
Susmita Sundaram Keith Culbertson I defended my dissertation, Land I’m finishing here at Ohio State and of Thought: India as Image and plan to look for work and/or to con- Metaphor in Konstantin Bal’- tinue with a Ph.D. program over- mont’s Oeuvre, graduating from seas. First, I want to travel around OSU in Summer 2004. I am currently the United States for a few weeks working as Visiting Assistant Pro- or months to visit places I have al- fessor of Russian at Kenyon Col- ways wanted to see. I truly could lege in Gambier, Ohio. end up just about anywhere, and plan to stay abroad for a long time, so I thought I should see more of the places and people I will leave behind. December 2004 Cyrillic Manuscript Heritage 9
MSSI Alumni Update, continued 2003 1999-2003 Inés García de la Puente Enrique Santos Marinas After MSSI 2003, Inés took advan- tage of her trip to Columbus to spend an additional five months to conduct research at the HRL/ RCMSS. After- wards, she returned to Spain and then in April 2004 left for Berlin, where she spent six months on further research and writing her Ph.D. She’s currently in Paris enjoying the city and doing research in its numerous libraries. The last couple of years have been a “wonderful oppor- tunity” for her to familiarize herself with various research metho- Enrique Santos Marinas (MSSI 2001) successfully defended dologies in her field in different countries, to widen the perspec- his dissertation, which deals with the borrowings and calques in three tives of her work, and to get in touch with experts on the Povest’ semantic domains of the vocabulary of the Gospels in Old Church Vremennykh Let and in the field of Indo-European studies. Slavonic: “Natural elements and substances,” “Plants,” and “Arti- facts.” Enrique (far right) was joined in the celebration of his John Hill defense by (from left) Enrique Gutiérrez Rubio (MSSI 2003), Well let’s see, I went to the MAM (Medieval Assoc. of the Mid- Matilde Casas Olea (MSSI 1999), his advisor Juan Antonio west) conference in Michigan and gave a talk on my skomorokhi. Álvarez Pedrosa Nú ñez, and colleague Susana Torres. It was fun. The medievalists of the Matilde Casas Olea Midwest are a wild bunch ... we even went on the rocks boat ride (Lake Su- perior). I gave a talk in Columbus last spring at the comparative drama con- ference on an Ostrovskii play (Komik XVII ogo stoletiia). The paper will be published in the comp drama rag Text and Presentation. What else...? I won a year-long Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowship, so now I’m taking first-year Polish. Easy. (After Old Church Slavonic what could be hard?) Lydia started kindergarten ... guess that’s not really news, eh? Jones Photo by Teresa
Kat Tancock From left: Matilde, Monica, S. Franklin, Anne-Laurence I finished my coursework and pre- This past summer, Matilde Casas Olea (MSSI 1999) received a re- sented a paper at the Balkan Con- search grant to study at the U. of Cambridge, England, where she was ference in April at “Ole Miss” (Ox- able to renew her friendship with her co-panelist from the 2002 Raška ford, Mississippi). The title of my Hilandar Conference, Anne-Laurence Caudano. Matilde also had the paper was something very long- opportunity to meet Monica White (MSSI 2001) and to work with winded: “Language Variation and Simon Franklin, Cambridge professor of medieval Slavic history (see Standardi-zation: The Third-Person CMH 14, page 4). Singular Perfect Auxiliary in Central South Slavic.” That’s about it. Now I’m studying for my comprehensive exams or “comps” (sort of). The Next Generation! I was just in Zagreb studying Croatian this past June and July, Congratulations toVessela Valiavitcharska- and yes, I went to Split (with my boyfriend), where OSU Marcum (MSSI 1999) and husband David Fulbrighter to Croatia, Andrea Sims (MSSI 2001), showed us on the birth of their daughter, Anna Elena around and found us accommodations – it was nice to see her. Marcum – one week after Vessela defended her dissertation proposal Rhetoric and Po- Editor’s note: Ivelina Tchizmarova’s photos from the Balkan Conference etry in Byzantine Homiletics. We’ll make
Dimitrova, Margaret. 2004. “Vˇutsˇurko- Taseva, Lora. 2004. “Knizhnye vzaimo- vlenieto: Svidetelstva ot iuzhnoslavian- otnosheniia mezhdu Sviatoi goroi i Tyr- Recent ski rukopisi.” Civitas Divino-Humana: In novo v svete tekstovoi traditsii Triod- Honorem Annorum LX Georgii Bakalov. nogo sinaksaria.” Prevodite prez XIV sto- Sofia: TANGRA TanNakRa Obshtobˇul- letie na Balkanite: Dokladi ot mezhdu- Bibliography garska fondatsiia i Tsentˇur za izsledvaniia narodnata konferentsiia, Sofia, 26-28 na bˇulgarite. 583-596. iuni 2003. Lora Taseva et al., eds. Sofia: Izdatelska kˇushta “GoreksPres,” 185-203. Ivanova, Tania. 2004. “Psevdo-Dionisii Areopagit v dva prevoda ot XIV vek po- Temchin, Sergei Iur’evich. 2003. “Byvshaia niatiata za dobro, blago i liubov v prevo- rukopis’ belgradskoi Narodnoi biblioteki da na Isai Serski i v prevodite na Tikara.” (serbskii oktoikh 1353 goda, No. 213) v Prevodite prez XIV stoletie na Balkanite: Garvarde.” Slavistica Vilnensis 2003/Kal- Dokladi ot mezhdunarodnata konferen- botyra 52(2). Vilnius, 197-204. tsiia, Sofia, 26-28 iuni 2003. Lora Taseva, In volumes 3, 7, 11, 13 and 15 of CMH we Mariia Iovcheva, Kristian Fos, Tatiana Temchin, Sergei Iur’evich. 2003. “Serbskii published selected bibliographies of theses, dis- sertations, books and articles made possible Pentkovskaia, eds. Sofia: Izdatelska kˇushta stolpnyi aprakos Ravuly (ok. 1353 g.): pro- and/or enhanced by the primary and second- “GoreksPres,” 315-327. iskhozhdenie, osobennosti iazyka, struk- ary source materials, especially manuscripts tura.” Slavistica Vilnensis 2003/Kalbotyra on microform, of the HRL or through the sup- Kuiumdzhieva, Svetlana. 2003. “The Mu- 52(2). Vilnius, 131-177. port of the RCMSS. Below are some publica- tions issued since May 2004. sical Anthology of Metropolitan Serafim of Bosnia.” Vizantiia i Vostochnaia Evro- Temchin, Sergei Iur’evich. 2003. “Tser- kovnoslavianskii Nedel’nyi oktoikh kak THESES & DISSERTATIONS pa. Liturgicheskie i muzykal’nye sviazi. (Gimnologiia vyp. 4.) Sost. N. Gerasimova- funktsional’naia raznovidnost’ Obshchei minei.” Slavistica Vilnensis 2003/Kalbo- Caudano, Anne-Laurence. 2004. ‘Let There Persidskaia i I. Lozovaia. Moscow: Pro- tyra 52(2). Vilnius, 101-129. Be Lights in the Firmament of Heaven’: gress, 131-147. Cosmological Depictions in Early Rus Kuiumdzhieva, Svetlana. 2003. “Remodel- Temchin, S. IU. 2004. “Etapy stanovleniia (Tenth to Thirteenth Century). University ing the Oktoechos: Purpose and Meaning slavianskoi gimnografii (863-okolo 1097 of Cambridge, England. (Based on Materials from the 12th to the goda). Chast’ pervaia.” Slavianovedenie 2: 18-55. Moskva: RAN. Dykstra, Tom E. 2004. “Josephism” Re- 15th Centuries).” The Past in the Present: Papers Read at the IMS Intercongres- considered: The Monks of the Iosifo- MONOGRAPHS Volokolamsk Monastery, 1479-1607. sional Symposisum and the 10th Meeting of the Cantus Planus, Budapest and Vise- University of Washington, Seattle, WA. gra´d, 2000. Budapest: Liszt Ferenc Acad- Bojovic´, Dragiša. 2003. Sveti Jefrem Sirin emy of Music, 67-87. i srpska crkvena knjiˇzevnost. Niš: Centar Parpulov, Georgi M. 2004. Toward a His- za crkvene studije i Kosovska Mitrovica: tory of Byzantine Psalters. University of Filozofski fakultet. Chicago. Kyrychenko, Alexander. 2004. “A Late Witness to the Early Text of the Old Slavic Acts.” Crkvene studije 1: 205-212. Niš. Casas Olea, Matilde. 2004. Néstor Iskán- Pileva, Stefka. 2003. An Important Witness der Relato Sobre La Toma De Constanti- to Old Slavonic Monastic Miscellanies: Nikolov, Angel. 2003. “‘A Useful Tale nopla: Estudio preliminary, traducción Krka 4 (1346). Central European Univer- y notas. (Fuentes y documentos 2.) Gra- sity, Budapest, Hungary. about the Latins’: An Old Bulgarian Trans- lation of a Lost Byzantine Anti-Latin Text nada: Centro de Estudios Bizantinos, Neo- Santos Marinas, Enrique. 2004. Los of the End of the 11th-Early 12th Century.” griegos y Chipriotas, y Grupo de Investi- mecanismos de adaptación de préstamos Scripta & e-Scripta 1: 99-119. Sofia. gación Estudios de la Civilización Griega, Medieval y Moderna, Universidad de Gra- y formación de calcos nominales en la Pentkovskii, Aleksei. 2004. “Ierusalimskii nada. traducción de los evangelios en antiguo ustav i ego slavianskie perevody v XIV eslavo. Complutense University of stoletii.” Prevodite prez XIV stoletie na Kuiumdzhieva, Svetlana. 2003. Ranno- Madrid, Spain. Balkanite: Dokladi ot mezhdunarodnata vˇuzrozhdenska bulgarska muzika. Pamet- nitsi i pevcheski repertoar. Ioasaf Rilski. White, Monica M. 2004. Military Saints konferentsiia, Sofia, 26-28 iuni 2003. Lora Taseva et al., eds. Sofia: Izdatelska kˇushta Sofia: Akademichno izdatelstvo “Marin in Byzantium and Rus, 900-1200. Univer- Drinov.” sity of Cambridge, England. “GoreksPres,” 153-171. ARTICLES Sergeev, Aleksei. 2003. “Rukopisnaia traditsiia ‘Dionisieva Margarita.’” Slavia Dimitrova, Margaret, and Adelina Angu- Orthodoxa: Ezik i kultura: Sbornik v chest sheva-Tikhanov. 2003. “Peta Khilendarska na prof. dfn Rumiana Pavlova. Sofia: konferentsiia po paleoslavistika, Rashka, Universitetsko izdatelstvo “Sv. Kliment 2001 [sic].” Balkanistichen forum kn. 1- Okhridski,” 351-357. 2-3: 184-197. Blagoevgrad. December 2004 Cyrillic Manuscript Heritage 11
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