Aug 2026· Sententiae· Vol 45, pp. 84-91· 0 citations
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The article is devoted to the textual foundations of a new Ukrainian translation of Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan. It is shown that neither of the two existing Ukrainian translations rests on an adequate textual basis: the first reproduces only the English version of 1651 in R. Tuck’s edition, while the second is a retranslation of the Russian translation of 1991, as demonstrated by a comparison of several passages. The paper analyses the controversy between G. A. J. Rogers and K. Schuhmann, on the one hand, and N. Malcolm, on the other hand, over the relation between the three versions of the English text – Head, Bear and 25 Ornaments – and establishes the limits of the textual consensus that must be taken into account in preparing a scholarly Ukrainian translation. A preliminary review is also given of the two editions that take the Latin text into account, those of E. Curley and N. Malcolm.
The article examines a number of critical arguments against the concept of Old Russian literature and its canon. These critiques insist on the inapplicability of literary criteria to the verbal monuments of Old Rus’, pointing to the lack, in early East Slavic culture, of the cultural context necessary for the normal de...
M. B. Plyukhanova· Russkaya Literatura· 0 citations
The article continues the previously undertaken work on a comprehensive study of the little-known French-language work “Le Raskol,” published in Paris in 1859. The main objectives of the research have been the translation of the book into Russian, a thorough analysis of its ideological content, and its introduction int...
The study is devoted to M. I. Verevkin’s translation of the Qur’ān (1790) — a landmark work of the Russian Enlightenment that had a decisive infl uence on the reception of the Qur’ān in Russia in the late 18
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and the first half of the 19
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centuries. Based on the classic French edition of the Qur’ān by A....
D. Mukhetdinov· Islam in the modern world· 0 citations
Abstract This article seeks to relate the institutionalization of Portuguese as a school subject to the process of construction of the cultural and linguistic identity of European kingdoms, as well as their imperial expansion, when language began to be imposed on conquered peoples until it became a reason of State, bet...
The article is devoted to the analysis of the Amazons myth, proposed in the satirical writings of two English authors of the first half of the 17th century. The author of the article notes that both Joseph Hall’s “Mundus alter et idem” and Richard Brom’s “Antipodes” lacked almost all the components of this myth known t...
This article, based on materials from the elite and mass English press of the first half of the 19th century, attempts to reconstruct the image of the Russian ambassador to Great Britain. It is concluded that newspapers created a dual image, where, on the one hand, qualities such as secularity, upbringing, and an excel...
A. Shabunina· ISTORIYA· 0 citations
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