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Christianity and culture --- Kievan Rus --- Civilization --- Byzantine influences --- Russia
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Sermons, Church Slavic --- Rhetoric --- Church Slavic literature --- Translations into English. --- -Rhetoric --- -Sermons, Church Slavic --- -Church Slavic sermons --- Language and languages --- Speaking --- Authorship --- Expression --- Style, Literary --- Glagolitic literature --- East European literature --- Translations into English --- -Translations into English --- Church Slavic sermons --- Literary style --- Sermons, Church Slavic - Kievan Rus - Translations into English --- Rhetoric - Kievan Rus --- Church Slavic literature - Kievan Rus - Translations into English
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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.
Communication and culture --- Written communication --- Communication écrite --- Communication et culture --- Kievan Rus --- Russie kiévienne --- Civilization --- Civilisation --- 091 <47> --- 091 <47> Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Rusland. Sovjet-Unie --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Rusland. Sovjet-Unie --- Written communication - Kievan Rus. --- Communication and culture - Kievan Rus. --- Culture and communication --- Culture --- Written discourse --- Written language --- Communication --- Discourse analysis --- Language and languages --- Visual communication --- Arts and Humanities --- History
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The 'graphosphere' is the dynamic space of visible words. Graphospheres mutate, they are reconfigured with changes in technology, in modes of production, in social structures, in fashion and taste. The graphospheric environment can be public or private, monumental or ephemeral. This book explores a new approach to the study of writing, with a focus on Russia during its 'long early modernity' from the late fifteenth century to the early nineteenth century. Taking an inclusive approach, it charts unmapped territory, uncovers sources that have almost entirely escaped attention and therefore provides, in the first instance, a unique reference guide to cultures of writing in Russia over four hundred years. Besides generating fresh insights into distinctive features of Russian culture, this outward-looking and accessible book offers a pioneering case study for the wider comparative exploration of the significance of technologies of the word.
Russian language --- Slavic languages, Eastern --- Writing --- History.
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Kievan Rus --- Russie kiévienne --- History --- Histoire --- #KVHA:Geschiedenis; Rusland --- #KVHA:Politiek; Rusland --- #KVHA:Geschiedenis; Sovjet-Unie --- #KVHA:Politiek; Sovjet-Unie --- -Kievan Rus --- -History --- -#KVHA:Geschiedenis; Rusland --- Russie kiévienne --- -Древняя Русь --- Drevni︠a︡i︠a︡ Rusʹ (Medieval state) --- Киевская Русь --- Kievskai︠a︡ Rusʹ (Medieval state) --- Ruce --- Русь --- Rusʹ --- Kyïvsʹka Rusʹ --- Kieŭskai︠a︡ Rusʹ --- Kiev (Medieval state) --- Rus' Kieviana --- Ukraine --- To 862 --- 862-1237
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Byzantine Empire --- Byzantium (Empire) --- Vizantii︠a︡ --- Bajo Imperio --- Bizancjum --- Byzantinē Autokratoria --- Vyzantinon Kratos --- Vyzantinē Autokratoria --- Impero bizantino --- Bizantia --- Foreign relations --- Congresses. --- Byzantine Empire - Foreign relations - Congresses
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What is Russia? Who are Russians? What is 'Russianness'? The question of national identity has long been a vexed one in Russia, and is particularly pertinent in the post-Soviet period. For a thousand years these questions have been central to the work of Russian writers, artists, musicians, film-makers, critics, politicians and philosophers. Questions of national self-identity permeate Russian cultural self-expression. This wide-ranging study, designed for students of Russian literature, culture, and history, explores aspects of national identity in Russian culture from medieval times to the present day. Written by an international team of scholars, the volume offers an accessible overview and a broad, multi-faceted introductory account of this central feature of Russian cultural history. The book is comprehensive and concise; it combines general surveys with a wide range of specific examples to convey the rich texture of Russian cultural expression over the past thousand years.
National characteristics, Russian. --- Russians --- Ethnic identity. --- Russia --- Civilization. --- National characteristics, Russian --- Russian national characteristics --- Ethnic identity --- Caractéristiques nationales russes --- Russes --- Identité ethnique --- Russie --- Civilization --- Civilisation --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature
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Byzantine literature is often regarded as little more than an agglomeration of stereotyped forms and generic conventions which allows no scope for individual thought or expression. Accordingly, histories of Byzantine literature tend to focus on the history of genres. The essays in this book challenge the traditional view. They attempt to show the coherence and individuality not of the genre but of author. By careful analysis of all the works of a given author, regardless of genre, these studies aim to reach behind the facade of convention, to discover not only biographical facts but also the writer's own likes and dislikes, his social views, his political sympathies and antipathies, his ethical and aesthetic standards. Most of the authors under consideration lived in the twelfth century. Several of them experienced or wrote about the same set of events; often they were acquainted with one another, or else had mutual friends. Thus each essay is both complete in itself and complementary to the others in the book; the individuality of each writer is most fully revealed in the comparison with his contemporaries and conversely the separate portraits may be combined to form a broader picture of Byzantine literary society of the time.
Byzantine literature --- Littérature byzantine --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- -Greek literature, Byzantine --- Greek literature, Medieval and late --- Greek literature --- -Civilization, Medieval, in literature --- Greek literature, Byzantine --- Civilization, Medieval, in literature. --- History and criticism. --- -History and criticism --- Littérature byzantine --- Civilization, Medieval, in literature --- Littérature grecque. 11e-12e s. (Mélanges) --- Griekse letterkunde. 11e-12e eeuw. (Versch. onderwerpen) --- Arts and Humanities --- History --- Byzantine literature - History and criticism
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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 Empire brings together a range of essays to address this complex question. It examines communication networks such as the postal service and the circulation of news, as well as the growth of a bureaucratic apparatus that informed the government about its people. It also considers the inscription of space 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 fi eld 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 anyone interested in the history of information and communications.
Communication --- Written communication --- Press --- Communication in politics --- Postal service --- Communication. --- Communication in politics. --- Manners and customs. --- Politics and government. --- Postal service. --- Press. --- Written communication. --- History. --- Russia --- Russia. --- Social life and customs --- Political communication --- Political science --- Written discourse --- Written language --- Discourse analysis --- Language and languages --- Visual communication --- Media, News --- Media, The --- News media --- Journalism --- Publicity --- Newspapers --- Periodicals --- Mail --- Mail service --- Post-office --- Carriers --- Communication and traffic --- Transportation --- Ceremonies --- Customs, Social --- Folkways --- Social customs --- Traditions --- Usages --- Civilization --- Ethnology --- Etiquette --- Rites and ceremonies --- Communication, Primitive --- Mass communication --- Sociology --- 1917 --- Rosja --- Rossīi︠a︡ --- Rossīĭskai︠a︡ Imperīi︠a︡ --- Ṛusastan --- Russian Empire --- Russie --- Russland --- Russia (Provisional government, 1917) --- Russia (Vremennoe pravitelʹstvo, 1917) --- Russia (Tymchasovyĭ uri︠a︡d, 1917) --- Russian S.F.S.R. --- Russia (Territory under White armies, 1918-1920) --- postal service --- information --- maps and atlases --- communication --- news circulation --- signs and monuments --- history of communication
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