Scando-SlavicaPub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00806765.2023.2188609
H. Andersen
{"title":"The Slavic Expansion. Streams, Springs, and Wells","authors":"H. Andersen","doi":"10.1080/00806765.2023.2188609","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00806765.2023.2188609","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Slavic Expansion during the 300s–700s poses interesting problems of interpretation (§1). This paper considers ways of procuring water, which is inomissible for any population – whether stable or expanding – and suggests that the Slavic Expansion comprised three modes of settlement, (i) along water courses, (ii) by natural springs, and (iii) dependent on hand-dug wells. The progression through these three modes entailed significant changes in the way of life of the Slavs (§2). They are evidenced by hundreds of placenames derived from words for ‘spring’ (§3) and by the later, widespread semantic change of words for ‘spring’ to ‘well’ and the creation of new words for ‘spring’ (§4). The remarkably diverse Slavic words for ‘spring’ reflect language contacts in the period before the Historical Expansion in the 500s and are of different age (§5). Their modern geographical distributions in ‘spring’ econyms reflect population movements at several stages of the Expansion, beginning centuries before the Historical Expansion (§6). They give indications about the relative locations of the Slavs and the contact languages prior to the Historical Expansion (§7).","PeriodicalId":41301,"journal":{"name":"Scando-Slavica","volume":"69 1","pages":"39 - 87"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49608575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Scando-SlavicaPub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00806765.2023.2190235
Simo Mikkonen
{"title":"The Things of Life: Materiality in Late Soviet Russia","authors":"Simo Mikkonen","doi":"10.1080/00806765.2023.2190235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00806765.2023.2190235","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41301,"journal":{"name":"Scando-Slavica","volume":"69 1","pages":"135 - 136"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46077056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Scando-SlavicaPub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/00806765.2022.2144759
Ewa Cybulska-Bohuszewicz
{"title":"The Image of Sweden and Finland in The Chronicle of the Whole World by Marcin Bielski: Prolegomena to Further Research","authors":"Ewa Cybulska-Bohuszewicz","doi":"10.1080/00806765.2022.2144759","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00806765.2022.2144759","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The present article discusses the description of Sweden and Finland in the third edition of Kronika wszytkiego świata (The Chronicle of All the World) from 1564 by the Polish historian Marcin Bielski (1495–1575). This work is considered one of the most important chronicles of the Jagiellonian era. It is also the first so-called “universal history” (or “universal chronicle”) published in Polish vernacular. It is, however, based on numerous, mostly Latin sources by other authors, such as Pliny (23–79), Jordanes (6th century), Casiodorus (485–583) and Sebastian Münster (1488–1552). Aiming at universality, the historical account presented in this work attempts to embrace all written information about certain events, geographical and historical realities and the origin of nations, and to treat them in accordance with the scientific methods available at that time. Kronika wszytkiego świata (henceforward: Kronika) is an invaluable source of information regarding Scandinavia, its inhabitants, riches, etc., although the description is not complete. In order to reconstruct a more comprehensive picture of the Nordic countries, further research is required in analogous Polish and Scandinavian sources of that time.","PeriodicalId":41301,"journal":{"name":"Scando-Slavica","volume":"68 1","pages":"316 - 331"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49208280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Scando-SlavicaPub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/00806765.2022.2139461
D. Caroli
{"title":"Picturing the Page. Illustrated Children’s Literature and Reading under Lenin and Stalin","authors":"D. Caroli","doi":"10.1080/00806765.2022.2139461","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00806765.2022.2139461","url":null,"abstract":"Bosman, Anston. 2004. “Renaissance Intertheater and the Staging of Nobody.” ELH 71, no. 3, 559– 585. Bushkovitch, Paul. 2015. “Change and Culture in Early Modern Russia.” Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, n.s., 16, no. 2, 291–316. Jensen, Claudia and Ingrid Maier. 2013. “Orpheus and Pickleherring in the Kremlin: The ‘Ballet’ for the Tsar of February 1672.” Scando-Slavica 59:2, 145–184. ——. 2015. “Pickleherring Returns to the Kremlin: More New Sources on the Pre-History of the Russian Court Theatre.” Scando-Slavica 61:1, 7–56. ——. 2016. Pridvornyj teatr v Rossii XVII veka: Novye istočniki. Moscow: Indrik. West, William. 2013. “Intertheatricality.” In Early Modern Theatricality, edited by Henry Turner. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 151–172.","PeriodicalId":41301,"journal":{"name":"Scando-Slavica","volume":"68 1","pages":"362 - 365"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47787853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Scando-SlavicaPub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/00806765.2022.2144758
A. Lahtinen
{"title":"In Defence of the Absent King. Baroness Ebba Stenbock and the Fight for King Sigismund, 1597–1599","authors":"A. Lahtinen","doi":"10.1080/00806765.2022.2144758","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00806765.2022.2144758","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The present article deals with the political agency of Baroness Ebba Stenbock, the widow of Klaus Fleming, in the power struggle of the 1590s, when Duke Charles and King Sigismund were struggling for the throne of the Swedish Realm. Widow of the most ardent supporter of King Sigismund, Baroness Ebba became famous for participating in the politics of the time and even in the defense of the Turku Castle against the troops of the Duke. After the Baroness had been imprisoned and taken to Stockholm, she nevertheless received and sent messages to help the cause of the King. This article analyses the role of an aristocratic widow who held no offices but who had important symbolic power after her husband, the Admiral and the Steward of Finland and Livonia. A careful analysis of scattered evidence sheds light on the agency of an aristocratic widow and her role in the turmoil of the late sixteenth century.","PeriodicalId":41301,"journal":{"name":"Scando-Slavica","volume":"68 1","pages":"286 - 300"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44052794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Scando-SlavicaPub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/00806765.2022.2144695
Niina Manninen
{"title":"Changing Fashions: Examining the Clothing of Catherine Jagiellon in Sixteenth-Century Polish and Swedish Documents","authors":"Niina Manninen","doi":"10.1080/00806765.2022.2144695","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00806765.2022.2144695","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article reviews the clothing of Catherine Jagiellon (1526–83), the Princess of Poland, Duchess of Finland (1562–1583), Grand Princess of Finland (1581–1583), and Queen of Sweden (1569–1583), in two documents which constitute the main sources for her possessions. The first document was written in connection with Catherine’s wedding with Duke John of Finland in Vilnius in 1562 as an inventory of her dowry, the second one in Stockholm in 1563 to list Catherine and her husband’s property. The inventory of dowry, written in Polish, has not been fully or at all used by researchers in Western Europe prior to this study, and the inventory of possessions, written in Swedish, has not been known to researchers in Eastern Europe. Therefore, previous research on the subject has not been able to make use of the available data in its entirety. However, by analysis and comparison of the entries in the two documents, it has been possible to complete the previously imprecise picture of the Renaissance princess’s wardrobe, as well as to reveal the changing customs of dressing oneself in changing surroundings.","PeriodicalId":41301,"journal":{"name":"Scando-Slavica","volume":"68 1","pages":"239 - 255"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49538977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Scando-SlavicaPub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/00806765.2022.2141422
Patrycja Potoniec
{"title":"Language as a Path to the Past. Studies on the Jagiellon Era in the Era of Digital Humanities (on the Example of the Polish Language)","authors":"Patrycja Potoniec","doi":"10.1080/00806765.2022.2141422","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00806765.2022.2141422","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The paper discusses Internet resources concerning written Polish documents from the 16th century, concentrating mainly on the Dictionary of the 16th-Century Polish Language (www.spxvi.edu.pl), which includes both a text database, a dictionary and a language corpus. All these resources provide information on the history of the Jagiellon dynasty, both directly, through royal correspondence, legal documents and chronicles, and indirectly, through dedications and literary works. The article also presents the connections between these resources and other Internet resources used for historical and linguistic research in Poland. Thanks to digital humanities, they are now easily accessible from anywhere in the world and may serve as an important tool for thorough studies of the past.","PeriodicalId":41301,"journal":{"name":"Scando-Slavica","volume":"68 1","pages":"348 - 357"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46638837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Scando-SlavicaPub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/00806765.2022.2144696
P. Sjökvist
{"title":"The Books of King Sigismund at Uppsala University Library","authors":"P. Sjökvist","doi":"10.1080/00806765.2022.2144696","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00806765.2022.2144696","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT When Uppsala University Library was formally founded in 1620 and 1621, the book depot of the Crown, previously located on Gråmunkeholmen (today’s Riddarholmen) in Stockholm, was donated there. This collection inter alia contained the confiscated library of a Swedish nobleman and remnants from medieval Swedish monastery libraries. As Otto Walde conclusively proved in 1915, it also contained the Swedish parts of the library of the Swedish King Sigismund (Sigismund III in Poland), who was dethroned in Sweden in 1599. Sigismund’s books were soon scattered and spread among the rest of the book collections of Uppsala University Library, which were arranged according to subject, without any indication of provenance. The aim of the present article is to report what we currently know about Sigismund’s collection. Step by step, not least by the research of Otto Walde, but also by the ongoing work at the library, we are now able to know more titles and much more about the contents and destinies of this Royal book collection than what was previously known.","PeriodicalId":41301,"journal":{"name":"Scando-Slavica","volume":"68 1","pages":"213 - 223"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46573814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Scando-SlavicaPub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/00806765.2022.2144697
Anna Nath-Dokurno
{"title":"A Catholic among Lutherans – Catherine Jagiellon in the light of Feliks Skarżyński’s funeral sermon","authors":"Anna Nath-Dokurno","doi":"10.1080/00806765.2022.2144697","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00806765.2022.2144697","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Catherine Jagiellon died in Stockholm in September of 1583. Before her funeral in Sweden, a mourning ceremony was organized for her in Poland. This funeral sermon, entitled Kazanie na obsequiach żałobnych królewny Katarzyny Jagiełłówny and pronounced by Father Feliks Skarżyński, has not yet been subject to a thorough analysis by scholars investigating the life of the Swedish queen. The present paper studies the content of the sermon, concentrating on Catherine Jagiellon’s religious devotion, as she remained a fervent Catholic even after marrying John Vasa, himself a Lutheran.","PeriodicalId":41301,"journal":{"name":"Scando-Slavica","volume":"68 1","pages":"256 - 271"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45186474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}