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The Schism. Historical and Critical essay on religious sects in Russia (chapter 8)

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 Textual History of Leviathan: The English Text and the Limits of Textual Consensus

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 retrans...

Sultanov, K. (2025). Evolution and tradition: From literature in a ‘newly created written language’ to a narrative identity. Moscow: IMLI RAN. (In Russ.)

The review discusses K. Sultanov’s monograph on the evolution and operation of literatures in newly created written languages in Russia, examined in the context of emerging narrative identities. In his study of historic-literary and theoretical aspects, the scholar explores the balance between tradition and innovation...

TOWARDS THE DEBATE OVER THE LITERARINESS OF OLD RUSSIAN LITERATURE

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...

Thinking Outside the Book

In the study of biblical proverbs, a comparison with demotic wisdom instructions, originating in Late Period and Graeco-Roman Egypt, has only recently become the focus of attention. In contrast to the older Egyptian tradition, the demotic sources do not form a unitary genre. Instead, some compositions arrange the sayin...

Oriental Studies, Comparison, and Translation at the Origins of the Italian Nation