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Cyrillic Manuscripts

From Medieval to Digital

by Viacheslav V. Lytvynenko (Author) Malgorzata Skowronek (Author) Achim Rabus (Author) Dimiter Peev (Author) Boban Petrovski (Author)
©2025 Edited Collection XXX, 320 Pages
Series: South-East European History, Volume 16

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Summary

The contributions brought together in this landmark edited collection focus on Cyrillic manuscripts and early printed editions from around 900 to 1800. They address a wide variety of topics that have not received sufficient attention in Western scholarship, including material, visual, and textual aspects. Collectively, the authors discuss scribal practices and multilingual manuscripts; visual exegesis; paleography; codicology and online databases; migration of manuscripts; fragmentology and digital reconstruction; and machine learning approaches, HTR models for transcriptions, and multi-spectral macrophotography.
The project was initiated by the Balkan History Association and represents the work of twenty-one scholars from eight different countries.

Details

Pages
XXX, 320
Publication Year
2025
ISBN (PDF)
9783034350914
ISBN (ePUB)
9783034350921
ISBN (Hardcover)
9783034350907
DOI
10.3726/b23051
Language
English
Publication date
2025 (October)
Keywords
Slavic studies online databases. codicology paleography digital humanities early printed editions Cyrillic manuscripts
Published
New York, Berlin, Bruxelles, Chennai, Lausanne, Oxford, 2025. XXX, 320 pp., 25 b/w ill., 90 color ill., 12 tables
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Biographical notes

Viacheslav V. Lytvynenko (Author) Malgorzata Skowronek (Author) Achim Rabus (Author) Dimiter Peev (Author) Boban Petrovski (Author)

Viacheslav V. Lytvynenko is Professor of Greek Patristics and Slavic Studies at Charles University, Prague. His works include critical Slavonic editions of Athanasius of Alexandria’s Orations against the Arians (2019 and 2021). Małgorzata Skowronek is Professor of Slavic Philology at the University of Łódź. Her research focuses on the Old Slavonic literature and especially its historical, biblical, polemical, and textual dimensions. She is the author of many books and articles. Achim Rabus holds the Chair of Slavic Linguistics at the University of Freiburg. He is President of the Commission on the Computer-Supported Processing of Medieval Slavic Manuscripts, and principle investigator of several projects on philology, sociolinguistics, and digital humanities. His current research interests are Slavic sociolinguistics, handwritten text recognition, and digital historical linguistics. Dimitar Peev is a research fellow at Friedrich Schiller University, Jena. He specializes in the field of Slavonic textology and paleography from the tenth to the eighteenth century. In more recent years, his research has focused on texts related to nation-building in the eighteenth century. Boban Petrovski is Professor of Medieval History at Saints Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje. His has written several books on medieval church history and the corpus of Saint Kliment of Ohrid.

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