2024. Vol. 4 (2)
Editor of the issue Timofey V. Guimon
The issue comprises papers dedicated to various forms of writing down events with year dates, from archaic inscriptions, via annals and chronicles, to bureaucratic or religious records. Some of the papers tackle problems of the methods of work of annalists and of designation of years. Subjects vary from ancient Greece and Maya to Soviet Russia, including many dedicated to medieval societies of Europe and the Near East. A commented translation of a Chinese 13th-century source and two notes presenting new readings of Old Rus inscriptions are also included into the volume.
Annual Recording as a Written Practice
- Igor E. Surikov. Hellanicus of Lesbos as the Initiator of the Practice of Annual Recording of Events in Ancient Greek Historical Writing. P. 11–26.
- Ivan A. Mirolyubov. Fasti Consulares in the Period of the Joint Reign of Constantine the Great and Licinius (313–324 AD). P. 27–37.
- Pavel V. Kuzenkov. The Problem of Designating the Year in the Early Byzantine Written Tradition. P. 38–51.
- Alexander I. Sidorov. Paschal Annals: What Was That? P. 52–69.
- Inna G. Matyushina. Eadmer’s Historia Novorum in Anglia and John of Worcester’s Chronicon ex chronicis: ransforming Biographical Narrative into Annual Records. P. 70–123.
- Tatjana N. Jackson. The First Seven Eruptions of the Hekla Volcano: Some Observations on the Formation of Annual Entries in the Icelandic Annals. P. 124–153.
- Andrey D. Scheglov. Annual Entries in Diarium Vadstenense. P. 154–170.
- Ekaterina N. Kirillova. Sentences of the Aldermen of Reims in the 13th–14th Сenturies. P. 171–183.
- Dmitry M. Timokhin. Dating of Events in ‘Local Histories’ (Iran, the 12th–14th Centuries). P. 184–201.
- Dmitry D. Beljaev. Year Count in the Ancient Maya History Writing Practices. P. 202–218.
- Timofey V. Guimon . “Empty Years” of Old Rus Chronicles: a Line or a Column? P. 219–241.
- Lyubov V. Stolyarova. Quasi-Annals: data as a Component of the Formulaic of the Colo-phons of Old Rus Parchment Books. P. 242–253.
- Andrey Yu. Vinogradov. Menological Dates in the Annals of Northeastern Rus, the mid-12th – the early 14th centuries P. 254–277.
- Anton M. Vvedensky. Techniques of the Work of Annalists of the 1440s with Their Sources (the Chronicle of Avraamka, the Rogozhsky Chronicle, and the Commission MS. of the First Novgorodian Chronicle). P. 278–295.
- Konstantin Yu. Erusalimskii. Months in Muscovite Chronicles (1530–1567): On the Distribution of Dating of the Itinerary of Ivan the Terrible. P. 296–308.
- Varvara G. Vovina. Annual and non-Annual Records in the New Chronicler. P. 309–320.
- Darya S. Skudnyakova. “I wrote 253 days this year and didn’t write for 100 days…” Prerequisites for the formation of the “character of a scholar” in the childhood diaries of Nikolay Berezhkov. P. 321–334.
- Alexey L. Beglov. Records with Dates in the Archive of the Secret Monastic Communities of the Moscow Vysoko-Petrovsky Monastery, the 1920s–1930s. P. 335–355.
Publications
- Roman P. Khrapachevsky. The Primary Source of Yuan (1305) for the Biography of the Ongut Prince in Yuan shi: a Basic Document for the History of the Onguts and Their Place in the Mongol Empire. P. 356–390.
New Readings
- Aleksey A. Gippius. “Thanks for Being Alive": Towards a Reading of the Inscription of the Scandinavian Sivord Olafovich from Сhelm in Volhynia. P. 391–399.
- Maria M. Drobysheva. Who and Where Summoned the Priest and the Deacon? On One Graffito from the Assumption Cathedral of Vladimir. P. 400–405.
