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Bogdan Krupski (1946-2017)

New South Slavic Translations of Aesop's Fairy Tales

In 2006 for the first time after more than 30 years a new translation of Aesop's fairy tales into Bulgarian by Vladimir Atanasov was published. Aesop's tales were also translated into Macedonian for the first time (by V…

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On Translations of the Emerald to Ruthenian

Several attempts were made in the Kyiv Metropolis to translate the basic version of the Emerald (Izmaragd) from Church Slavonic to Ruthenian. These translations were fragmentary, though. The oldest translation, limited…

New, Rare and Slavonized Graecisms and Their Role in Localization of Church Slavonic Texts

The paper provides overview of the destiny of some Old Church Slavonic/Church Slavonic manuscripts, as well as the issues related to their time and spatial localization. Special attention has been paid to the role of lo…

Fates of the Old Czech Annals [Text F]

The collection of Hussite chronicles called Old Czech Annals contains more than thirty manuscripts some of which have been left out of the research spotlight. One of them is the Czech written text F (called "of Stockhol…

The Homily on The [Cursed] Fig-Tree and the Parable of the Vineyard by John Damascene in Mediaeval Slavonic Literature [Preliminary Observations]

The Slavonic version of the homily dedicated to The (Cursed) Fig-Tree and the Parable of the Vineyard by John Damascene has not been so far object of an archeographic-textological study. The present study gives the init…

Last Will as an Act of Preparation for Death [Based on Documents from Registers of the Solovetskiy Monastery of the 16th Century]

Expressing wishes as to how a person's property was to be distributed at death was permitted by Old-Russian common law. At first, oral disposals had been practiced, whereas written wills became widespread only in the 14…

Illuminated Manuscript 626 C from the Treasury of Split Cathedral - Riddles and Suppositions

The collections in Croatian churches and monasteries keep treasure of outstanding cultural and historical value, which is still waiting to be studied, properly evaluated and published. Among just such precious items is…

The Uniate Alteration of the Orthodox Treatise Zercalo bogoslovii

The article deals with the modification introduced by the Uniates to the Orthodox treatise Zercalo bogoslovii (1618), published in Pochaiv in 1790. The Uniate publishers created the Uniate roots of treatise, changed the…

Of Manuscript Culture in Early Modern Dubrovnik

In the article's introduction, the author points to the history of the book as one of the younger sub-disciplines and to its relevance for literary history. This fact is particularly important for old Dubrovnik where th…

Private Handwritten Prayer Books of the Catholics from the XVIII-XIX-century Right-Bank Ukraine as an Evidence of the Era).

The article presents a description and analysis of the peculiarities of the handwritten prayer books of Catholics of the Right-Bank Ukraine of the XVIІІ-XIX centuries on the example of one of the collections of the Cent…

Mihanović Homiliarium in the Monastery of St Prohor of Pčinja: an Overlooked Fragment of a Cognate Serbian Parchment Manuscript Copy of the 14th Century

The article presents an analysis of a Cyrillic parchment fragment of Serbian provenance once kept in the monastery of St Prohor of Pčinja and published by J. Hadži-Vasiljević in 1900. The fragment is now identified as b…

Unknown Аrchaic Тranslation of Sermon 5 from John of Sinaya's Scala Paradisi, in a Serbian Manuscript from the 14th Century

The subject of this research is an unknown Slavic translation of Sermon 5 John of Sinaya's Scala Paradisi (Lestvica) in a Serbian Menaion and Triodion Panagyric, rewritten from an old Bulgarian antigraph which has prese…

Did Two Zlatousts from the Collection of the Princes Chartoryski Library in Cracow Once Belong to Fr Iwan Wiszeński?

In the collection of manuscripts of the Princes Chartoryski Library in Cracow, there are two manuscripts (from the beginning of the 17th century) which are related, in academic literature, with the person of Orthodox mo…

Translating and Transcending Censors: Modernist Appropriation and Thematisation of Censorship in the Works of Virginia Woolf, Allen Ginsberg, Czesław Miłosz and Bohumil Hrabal

Censorship has often been regarded as the archenemy of artists, thinkers and writers. But has this always been the case? This research paper proposes that censorship is not a total evil or adversarial force which thwart…

In Defense of Futile Effort - Joanna Rapacka and the Study of Croatian Literary History

The article analyses two methods from the scholarly oeuvre of a great Polish Croatian and Slavic studies scholar Joanna Rapacka (1939-2000). These two methods are very interesting and in a particular manner topical, esp…

Biblical Intertexts through the Prism of „the Integrated Approach" [Fundamental Translation Studies Work]

The review sets out to provide a critical analysis of Oksana Dzera's monographic research which has an obvious topicality and interdisciplinary character as the work aims to investigate issues of theory and practice of…

A New Bibliographic Contribution. [Neli Gančeva. St. Clement of Ohrid])

This is a review of the most recent bibliography on St. Clement of Ohrid, which was prepared by Neli Gancheva, a philologist and bibliographer at the Cyrillo-Methodian Research Centre of the Bulgarian Academy of Science…

Václav Burian's Non- -obvious Poland

The Polish-studies output of Václav Burian, an ambassador of Polish culture in Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic, scattered in magazines such as „Ječmínek", „Hanácké noviny", „Scriptum", „Listy" or „Literární noviny…

Identity in the Literature of Czech Těšín Region

The monograph called Identita v literatuře Těšínska (Identity in the Literature of Czech Těšín Region) deals with the works of the Polish national minority in this region, especially with the literature after the World…

Professor Halina Janaszek-Ivaničková as an Advocate of Modern Comparative Studies During Hopeless, Hard and Critical Times

Scientific work of Professor Halina Janaszek-Ivaničková (1931-2016) can be placed in three postwar periods of Poland's history, albeit her scientific and organizational work with regard to comparative studies was carrie…

Pre-Marital Test of Genetic Compatibility for Effective Child Health: An Islamic Perspective

Debates on pre-marital genotype compatibility test for effective child health has received much attention in recent times among medical practitioners, biological scientists and Islamic Scholars. However, some marriage c…

GANDHIAN PRINCIPLES ON HEALTH: EVIDENCES, RELEVANCE AND IMPLICATIONS IN THE MODERN CONTEXT OF HEALTH

Mohan Das Karamchand Gandhi, popularly known as Mahatma Gandhi is one of the greatest visionaries who is known for his anti-imperialistic views and strong political strategies. Right from his childhood till his last bre…

Phytochemistry, Anthelmintic study of herbaceous aerial part of Kallstroemia pubescens (G. Don) & Review of Novel Effects of Diosgenin: A Plant Derived Steroid

The genus is named after A. Kallstroem who lived in the 18th century. Diosgenin is an aglycone of the steroidal saponin, dioscin in yam and is a principal raw material for the industrial production of steroid drugs. It…