The Earliest States of Eastern Europe. 2011: Oral Tradition in Written Text. Editor of the volume G.V. Glazyrina. Moscow: Dmitry Pozharsky University, 2013
The next volume of the almanac "The Earliest States of Eastern Europe" is devoted to the reflection of the oral tradition in the written historical sources of antiquity and the Middle Ages. The authors propose new methods for identifying and studying those evidence of written monuments that are based on historical information transmitted orally. The articles highlight the issues of the existence of oral tradition in Old Rus' and in other ethnic societies associated with it, identify parallels in the traditions of different peoples and demonstrate new approaches to the study of oral sources of Old Russian chronicles, Old Norse monuments, writings of Arab authors, etc. The studies included in this volume , significantly expand the source base for studying the early stages of the history of the peoples of Europe.
Table of contents
- V. A. Arutyunova-Fidanyan, A. S. Shchavelev - A Reassessment of Historiography of the City Foundation Legends in the Old Russian “Primary Chronicle” and Armenian “Taron’s History”: Kiy and Kuar - 7-33
- A. B. Vankova - Commodity-money relations and the Byzantine monastery: practice and its meaning - 34-44
- N. Y. Gvozdetskaya - The image of a Ruler in the Ynglingasaga: a narrative and verbal analysis - 45-64
- T. V. Guimon - Yan Vyshatich and the Oral Sources of the Rus Primary Chronicle - 65-117
- G. V. Glazyrina - Confluence of Traditions (Topoi in Descriptions of an Imaginary Landscape in «Eiríks saga víðfǫrla») - 118-146
- O. V. Gusakova - Development of St Edmund's Cult in the Oral Tradition and Hagiography - 147-164
- T. N. Jackson, A. V. Podosinov - Place names as markers of cultural interaction: the Old Norse name for the Sea of Asov and oral tradition - 165-191
- T. M. Kalinina - Values of the ethnonym “burdjan” in compositions of the Arab medieval geographers (options of a ratio of oral and written tradition) - 192-217
- S. M. Kashtanov - Does a Mediavalist possess “Oral Sources”? - 218-220
- Y. A. Kleiner - Oral Tradition and Tradition of fixed Texts - 221-246
- I. G. Konovalova - Methodological Aspects of Route Data Analysis in the Writings of Medieval Arab Geographers - 247-256
- N. F. Kotlyar - The Galich Tradition in Kievan Chronicle of the 12th Century - 257-275
- I. A. Kucherova - Skald and Skaldic Poetry in the “Star-Oddi's Dream” - 276-298
- A. F. Litvina, F. B. Uspenskij - The Specific Case with Rogneda: The Proposal of the Prince Vladimir in the Light of Prechristian Juridical Tradition in Scandinavia - 299-325
- P. V. Lukin - The Pagan “Reform” of Vladimir Svyatoslavich in the Primary Chronicle: The Oral Tradition or Literary Allusions? - 326-352
- V. I. Matuzova - The Oral Foundation of the “Chronicon terrae Prussiae” by Peter of Dusburg - 353-362
- E. A. Melnikova - Christianity of the Vikings in Old Norse oral tradition and contemporary testimonies. - 363-407
- V. Y. Petrukhin - On Folklore Motifs in the Primary Chronicle - 408-417
- E. V. Pchelov - The Descent of Old Russian Princes from Riurik: Oral Tradition or Chronicle Construction? - 418-433
- N. E. Samohvalova - Note on the Question of Correlation of Different Sources’ Types in Strabo’s Geography - 434-441
- M. V. Skrzhinskaya - Four Folklore Tales in the Scythian Logos of Herodotus - 442-460
- P. V. Belousov, L. V. Stolyarova - Jerome Horsey's Account of the Events that Took Place in Uglich and Moscow in May and June 1591 - 461-496
- I. E. Surikov - Classical Athenian Democracy and Oral Historical Tradition - 497-520
- E. A. Melnikova - A new Scandinavian runic inscription from Hagia Sophia in Constantinople - 521-529
- E. A. Gurevich - The Tale of the Greenlanders (Translation from Old Icelandic, foreword and commentary by Elena Gurevich) - 530-546
- V. V. Rybakov - Life of Saint Eskil (Translation from Latin, foreword and commentary by Vladimir Rybakov) - 547-563
- G. V. Glazyrina - Along the Oral-Written Continuum. Types of Texts, Relations and Their Implications / Ed. by Slavica Ranković with Leidulf Melve and Else Mundal. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2010. 488 pp. (Utrecht studies in medieval literacy. Vol. 20). - 564-581