The Povest' vremennykh let: An Interlinear Collation and Paradosis Donald Ostrowski, ed. and coll., with David Birnbaum and Horace G. Lunt
Volume X in the Harvard Library of Early Ukrainian Literature: Texts Series
September 2003. 3 pts. 2341 pp., (clothbound) ISBN 0-916458-91-1 (HUP/OSTPOV) $125.00. Josef Dobrovsky and the Origins of the Igor' Tale Edward L. Keenan
At the center of this work is Keenan's meticulous, almost word-by-word analysis of the language of the Tale. By proposing that Dobrovsky is the author, Keenan is able to illuminate passages of the text that have remained opaque despite over two centuries of analysis by scholars. Keenan's thought-provoking insights into the creation and publication of the Tale will spark scholarly debate for many years.
November 2003. 570 pp. ISBN 0-916458-96-2 (clothbound) (HUP/KEEJOS) $49.95. Tsars and Cossacks: A Study in Iconography Serhii Plokhy
Serhii Plokhy received his doctorate in history from Kyiv
University in 1990. Available now. 101 pp., illus.; ISBN 0-916458-95-4
(paperback) (HURI)
$18.95. Dariusz Kolodziejczyk The Ottoman survey registers (defter-i mufassal) are recognized as unparalleled sources on the demographic, economic, toponymic, onomastic, and linguistic characteristics of the regions for which they were made. The survey register for the province of Kamanice (the name used for the region of Podolia and city of Kamjanec' which the Ottomans conquered in 1672) is the only surviving survey register of an ethnic Ukrainian territory. With the publication of this survey, Podolia has the potential of becoming in several ways better known than any other region of Ukraine not only at that time. The defter aids the study of the disciplines noted above and is an invaluable source for students of economic history, especially those interested in the rural economies of Eastern Europe. The full text of the defter is given in transcription in the first part, with a full facsimile edition given in the second part. All narrative documents are fully translated in appendices, and narrative segments of the registry portion of the defter are fully translated in the notes. Commentary is found in extensive notes and an introduction. The Ottoman Survey Register provides important new information on the Ottomans and their subjects living on Ukrainian territory. The first part also includes important interpretive maps keyed to the register and indices and glossaries. 2004. 2 parts,XVIII + 1034 pp., maps. ISBN 0-916458-78-4 (cloth) (HUP/KOLOTT) $75.00 (set). Ottoman Documents Pertaining to Ukraine and the Black Sea Countries, 3. [Co-published with the Institute of Oriental Studies, National
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The
Tale of Bygone Years (Povest' vremennykh let) is the most
important source for the history of early Rus'. Full of stories
of grand princes and saints, monks and knightly retinues, this chronicle
compilation has been the bedrock of modern interpretations of the
history, ethos, and religious traditions of Ukrainians, Russians,
and Belarusians alike. It has also been a source of controversy,
with competing redactions and interpretations of the Old East Slavic
language in which it was written. Ostrowski's massive undertaking
provides scholars and general readers with the five oldest redactions,
three more modern redactions, three later interpolations, and his
own final interpretation of the Povest'.
This
controversial and ground-breaking book revists the origins of one
of the most beloved works of east Slavic literature, the Slovo
o polku Igoreve (the Igor' Tale). Keenan delves into
the history of the first published edition of the Tale in
order to demonstrate that the text is not an authentic twelfth-century
document. Rather, Keenan argues that it is a product of the late
eighteenth century, created by the Bohemian scholar Josef Dobrovsky.
According to Keenan, only Dobrovsky, the greatest Slavist of his
time, possessed the knowledge and ability needed to create a work
as unique as the Tale.
Edward
L. Keenan is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of History at Harvard University
and Director of Harvard's Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection.
A specialist in medieval Muscovite history and the cultural history
of the East Slavs, he has also served at Harvard as the director
of the Russian Research Center, Director of the Center for Middle
Eastern Studies, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences,
and chair of the History Department. His earlier works include "The
Kurbskii-Groznyi apocrypha: the seventeenth-century genesis of
the 'correspondence' attributed to Prince A. M. Kurbskii and Tsar
Ivan IV" (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1971), and a recent
book of essays, "Rosiis'ki istorychni mify" (Kyiv: Krytyka, 2001).
Tsars
and Cossacks explores the ways in which Ukrainian Cossacks
used icon painting to navigate not only their relationship vis-à-vis
God, but also vis-à-vis the Russian tsar. Could Emperor
Peter I and his adversary in the Battle of Poltava (1709) — the
Cossack Hetman Ivan Mazepa — be depicted in the same icon?
Why did the Cossack colonels commission icons with the portraits
of their tsars, but not of the own Cossack leaders, the hetmans?
Could a Catholic king be portrayed in an Orthodox icon? Why are
the Prussian tsars and Orthodox hierarchs missing on some of
the Zaporozhian Cossack icons? In this groundbreaking study,
Dr. Plokhy provides answers to these and many other questions
pertaining to the political and religious culture of Ukrainian
Cossackdom, as reflected in the Cossack era paintings, icons
and woodcuts. By encouraging the iconography to "speak", Tsars
and Cossacks helps to broaden and deepen our understanding
of Ukrainian iconography, as well as Russian imperial political
culture.
He
was the chair of the Department of World History at Dnipropetrovsk
University and conducted research at the Institute of Archeography
and Source Studies of the National Academy Sciences of Ukraine,
where he headed the Department of the History of Culture. He currently
serves as the Mykhailo Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History
at Harvard. He is the author of The Cossacks and
Religion in Early Modern Ukraine (Oxford University Press,
2001).
This
book brings together essays by scholars from a wide range of
disciplines: historiography, architecture, literary history and
criticism, urban planning, and cultural history. Several of the
essays were presented as papers at a conference jointly sponsored
by the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies and the
Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University. Others are
invited papers, reflecting the diversity of cultures that come
together in this vibrant city, known variously over the centuries
as Leopolis, Lwów, Lvov, Lemberg, and L'viv. At times
violent, always passionate, these confluences of cultures have
shaped a city that now stands at a most strategic location between
East and West. |
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