Aspects of the Slavic Middle Ages and Slavic Renaissance Culture
Will be published approx. on 1. May 1992
Book
Hardback
838 pages
978-0-8204-1057-9 (ISBN)
Description
This text contains a collection of essays focusing on cultural and social life in the urban centers of Kiev, Novgorod, Moscow, Cracow, and Dubrovnik. In addition, Slavic religious and secular texts are examined and relevant scholarship is critically reassessed. The period covered extends from the early Middle Ages through the beginnings of the Baroque.
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The Author: Henrik Birnbaum, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Los Angeles, has authored numerous books, monographs, and essays in the fields of Slavic, Balkan, and Indo-European linguistics, language typology and linguistic theory, Early Slavic civilization, medieval Russian history, and modern Russian and German literature. He is a corresponding member of the Swedish, Yugoslav, and Polish Academies of Sciences, an honorary member of Phi Beta Kappa, and was the 1985 UCLA Faculty Research Lecturer.