2023. Vol. 3 (2)
Editor of the issue Мarina А. Kurysheva
This issue is dedicated to the centenary of the famous scholar at Byzantine studies Alexander Petrovich Kazhdan (03.09.1922–29.05.1997), who was a researcher at the Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences until his emigration. The issue contains 15 works reflecting the main interests of the scholar – historiography and hagiography of Byzantium, Armenia and Russia; written and ritual-religious practices of the Byzantines; Greek and Armenian manuscripts; artefacts of Eastern Christian culture. Special mention should be made of the memoirs of the leading specialists at Byzantine studies Simon D. Franklin and Mikhail V. Bibikov about their mentor and senior colleague. The chronology of the works covers a wide period from the 6th to the 16th century, i. e. the history of the Byzantine (East Roman) Empire and its cultural heritage of the Byzance après Byzance period. The issue will be of interest and use not only to specialists in Byzantine history, but also to researchers dealing with late antique and medieval literary and writing practices.
Memories
- Simon Franklin. Notes on Alexander P. Kazhdan: the first years at Dumbarton Oaks. P. 12–23.
- Mikhail V. Bibikov. Kazhdan’s Practices of Working with Manuscript. P. 24–29.
Researches
- Yana E. Bespalchikova. Jordanes’ Getica and the Antiquarian Tradition of the Late Antiquity. P. 30–42.
- Irina Yu. Vashcheva. Sebeos’ History of Emperor Heraclius: An Attempt of Interpretation. P. 43–75.
- Yulia B. Mantova. The Miracles of St Artemios: Literary Techniques and Readers. P. 76–94.
- Zaruhi A. Hakobyan, Ioane A. Kazaryan. Catholicos Nerses III the Builder: a Historical Portrait. P. 95–133.
- Anna B. Vankova. The Personality of Emperor Nikephoros Phocas and His Connections with Athanasius the Athonite. P. 134–152.
- Aleksandr A. Romensky. A Byzantine Context of the Information about Prince Vladimir in the Chronicle of Thietmar of Merseburg: “Lumbare Venereum” and the Motive of the “Girded Loins”. P. 153–169.
- Aleksei S. Shchavelev. Identification of Byzantine Emperors in the So-Called “Introduction” to the “Sofia Chronicle” (“Introduction” of the “Initial Compilation”). P. 170–180.
- Yurii М. Mogarichev. To the History of the Cimmerian Bosporus of the 10th-12th Centuries: In the Development of one Hypothesis of A. P. Kazhdan. P. 181–193.
- Dmitrii A. Chernoglazov. A Letter like a Monkey and a Satyr: Epistolary Etiquette in the Letters of John Apokaukos. P. 194–217.
- Alexander V. Akopyan, Inesa G. Danielyan. Ideas, Coins and Painters: Drawing of Coins and Seals in the Armenian Manuscripts of the 13th–16th centuries. P. 218–260.
- Marina А. Kurysheva. Book & Heart: Attribution of the Manuscript and Reliquary of the du Bellay Family. P. 261–286.
- Sergey A. Ivanov. Alexander A. Vasiliev and “Academic Trial”. P. 287–299.
Publications
- Oleg A. Rodionov. One More Excerpt from Kallistos Angelikoudes’s Hesychastic Education? Editio princeps of Logos 15 Based on the Codex Barberini gr. 420 P. 300–317.
