THE EARLY SLAVIC STUDIES ASSOCIATION NEWSLETTER

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A Message from the ESSA President

A recent note from AAASS headquarters advises that in the future affiliates of AAASS will have to reduce their expectations of a room and time slot every year during the AAASS convention. Noting that the number of affiliated groups has mushroomed in recent years, as has the number and quality of panel proposals directed to the convention program committees, AAASS Executive Director Carol Saivetz writes that the convention organizers have come to face an impossible task in assigning meeting rooms that will satisfy all the demand. Consequently, Ms. Saivetz reports, the association's "Board has initiated a new policy which will begin with the St. Louis meeting. From 1999 on, we can guarantee a meeting for affiliated groups only once every other year."

As you know, ESSA has traditionally met annually during the AAASS convention, but elects officers for two-year terms, usually during the ESSA business meeting in alternate years. We could, therefore, easily adjust to the new policy, but there will surely be a cost to our group's identity and the networking and conversation that our annual meeting provides us. Therefore, at our Boca business meeting I shall solicit your views on how our association ought to proceed. Should we henceforth meet, as the new AAASS policy suggests, only on a biennial basis? Should we meet annually, even if it means finding some other way of meeting-perhaps hire a room at a nearby hotel, or perhaps adjoin a business meeting to our annual dinner, or...? Perhaps we should adjust our elections to take place either by mail or over the internet, thereby dispensing with one of the on-site requirements for a business meeting? There are real losses in such an approach, but perhaps they are not too great as long as we continue to field a substantial number of panels at the AAASS convention.

A second matter that I propose to bring before the membership at Boca is our dues structure. As founders of ESSA will remember, from the very beginning (1987) our dues have been a modest $5 per year for all members. One consequence of this pricing has been our ability to attract graduate students and others who do not enjoy full-time employment in academia. Another consequence, however, has been that our treasury has never grown fat. While it would be an exaggeration to say that we live from hand to mouth, we do not in fact enjoy a reserve that would allow us to confront costs like those that have arisen in connection with the Boca meeting or which might ensue under the new regime dictated by AAASS headquarters. Nor does our current funding allow us to contemplate new initiatives that might further the purposes for which ESSA was founded.

For example, one idea that I have heard remarked on that I find very appealing is the institution of a cash prize to reward outstanding scholarship in the fields that interest us. As other affiliates have learned (for example, the Association for Women in Slavic Studies), such a

device can do much to bring to the attention of the broader AAASS membership scholarship that emanates from their associations. In my own view, early Slavic studies needs to solicit this attention much more aggressively than do many of our sibling organizations; too many of our colleagues relegate our scholarly concerns to the margins, and we would, I believe, do ourselves a great favor if we could find a way to publicize and reward scholarship that emerges from our fields. But the idea of a prize is only illustrative; without a bigger treasury, any new initiative will be hard to actualize.

Therefore, I would like to propose at the Boca business meeting that the association consider changing its dues structure. I propose that we introduce a system that continues the modest charge for those least able to afford dues, but which requires more from those at the upper end of the payscale (retain $5/annum for graduate students, etc., but perhaps $10/annum for full and associate professors, or perhaps follow the example of professional associations which determine different dues structure on self-declared income). I intend to bring a specific proposal to be voted on by the membership at the business meeting.

I hope that all of you will come to Boca Raton and will attend the ESSA business meeting which, according to the preliminary schedule, will take place at 1:30 PM Friday, Sept. 25. The officers would like to hear your views on our association's meeting frequency and how we can adjust to the new regime at AAASS. We would also like to hear your views on our dues structure, whether you would be willing to change it, and if so, in what way. Should you not be able to attend the Boca meeting, or even if you will attend, but would like to send along your opinions right away, please e-mail me with your thoughts on these issues (kaiser@ac.grin.edu).

Daniel Kaiser

The annual meeting of ESSA members was held on Friday, November 21, at 5:45 p.m. at the Sheraton Seattle Hotel as part of the AAASS program. The meeting was opened by the outgoing president of ESSA, Norman Ingham, who thanked ESSA's local liaison, Daniel Waugh, for helping with the arrangement of the annual ESSA dinner. He also expressed his appreciation to George Majeska for having successfully created a consolidated ESSA membership list. He further noted ESSA's commitment to an interdisciplinary approach to the field of medieval Slavic studies witnessed in the composition of this year's ESSA-sponsored roundtable. The Secretary-Treasurer then delivered the financial report for the 1996/97 year which was accepted unanimously (see below). The meeting then proceeded to the new elections of ESSA officers. The members unanimously accepted the recommendation of the nominating committee made up of Kira Stevens and David Birnbaum to put forth Ann Kleimola as the new vice-president elect, to elect the previous vice-president elect Daniel Kaiser president of the organization, and to reelect Isolde Thyrêt Secretary-Treasurer and David Prestel Newsletter-Editor.

The new president, Daniel Kaiser, then thanked Norman Ingham for his work during his presidency and explained his new billing system for the annual ESSA dinner. He further announced the publication of Culture and Identity in Muscovy, 1359-1589, ed. by A. M. Kleimola and G. D. Lenhoff, Moscow: ITZ Garant, 1997. George Majeska announced details concerning the ESSA directory. Several members gave details concerning new job announcements in early Slavic studies. Eve Levin announced details concerning the Fourth International Hilandar Conference that will take place at Ohio State University on August 14-15, 1998 (see below). Daniel Waugh noted his intention to put significant materials, such as translations of primary sources and art materials, on the WEB for students of Early Russia. David Birnbaum suggested the formation of a technology committee which Daniel Kaiser promised to take under advice.

After the official part of the meeting, attending ESSA members had the pleasure of enjoying an exquisite slide lecture by Dr. Engelina Sergeevna Smirnova on icon painting in Rostov during the Mongol period. Dr. Smirnova's talk was followed by a lively discussion. The meeting was adjourned at 7:15 p.m., and most members headed for the Edgewater Inn on the Seattle waterfront to enjoy local food specialties and good company at the annual ESSA dinner.

Respectfully submitted,

Isolde Thyrêt

Secretary Treasurer

ESSA again would like to thank Kent State University for its financial assistance to cover the printing of the Early Slavic Studies Newsletter. A special thank you goes to the secretaries of the KSU History Department, Bette Savicki and Ellen Denning, who provided computer support and technical assistance in the production of the Newsletter.

In the October 1996 Newsletter (Vol. 9 #2), a draft directory of ESSA members was included and members were requested to send corrections to Isolde Thyrêt. The changes have now been made by our former secretary/treasurer George Majeska and the final version of the Directory is included in this issue. We want to thank George for his hard work on this project. Without his heroic efforts this very useful list would not have appeared.

On March 20, 1998 the third interdisciplinary "Winter" Workshop on Topics in Medieval Slavic Culture was held at UCLA. The following reports were given: 1) Henrik Birnbaum (UCLA), "The Latest Research in Old Church Slavonic"; 2) Andrew Corin (UCLA),"The Relevance of Croatian Slavonic for the Reconstruction of the Cyrillo-Methodian Textual Corpus"; 3) David K. Prestel (Michigan State University), "The Primary Chronicle Account of Vladimir's Conversion"; 4) Anindita Banerjee (UCLA), "Afanasii Nikitin's India: A Journey Through the Mind of a Medieval Traveler"; 5) Andrea Hacker (UCLA), "Post-Factum Portrayals of Historical Events (Four Accounts of How Stepan Razin's Men Killed Metropolitan Iosif in 1671)"; 6) Norman W. Ingham (U. Chicago), "Muscovite Individualism Revisited"; 7) Janet Martin (U. Miami), "Land Tenure in Novgorod: Some Preliminary Observations"; 8) David Miller (Roosevelt U.), "Secular Literacy in Muscovy: Documentary Evidence from Land Records of the Trinity-Sergius Monastery"; Ann M. Kleimola (U. Nebraska), "Evfrosin'ia Staritskaia's Quest for Eternal Remembrance." The conference was sponsored by the UCLA Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures in cooperation with the Center for European and Russian Studies (CERS), the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS) and the Consortium for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies in Southern California (CERES).

At the annual ESSA business meeting, Eve Levin, Ohio State University and editor of Russian Review, announced that The Ohio State University will host the Fourth International Hilandar Conference on the campus of OSU August 14-15, 1998. The conference will commemorate the 800th anniversary of the foundation of the Hilandar Monastery on Mt. Athos and the 20th anniversary of the Hilandar Research Library at The Ohio State University. Announced themes for the conference are "Hilandar Monastery's Role in the World" and "The Current State of Medieval Slavic Studies." ESSA members are invited to attend, and to submit proposals for papers and panels by May 15, 1998. Address all inquiries to Dr. Predrag Matejic, Hilandar Research Columbus, OH 43210-1286 (e-mail: matejic.1@osu.edu). You may also contact Professors Eve Levin or Dan Collins.

The planning committee for the Medieval Academy's annual meeting at Georgetown University, April 8-11, 1999, welcomes proposals that focus on Europe's eastern and southeastern borderlands--either to be part of topical panels or to allow for a special panel on its own. Where, due to subject matter or methodology, it is appropriate, the time involved may reach beyond the late fifteenth century. Proposals should be addressed to Professor Penn Szittya, Department of English, Box 571131, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057. The deadline for submissions is May 15, 1998.

Many ESSA members have articles in the recently published Culture and Identity in Muscovy, UCLA Slavic Studies, New series, volume 3, edited by A. M. Kleimola and G. D. Lenhoff. Moscow: ITS-Garant, 1997. The Table of Contents follows:

"Identity In Exile: Andrei Mikhailovich Kurbskii and National Consciousness in the Sixteenth Century," Inge Auerbach (Marburg/Lahn).

"The Changing Profile of the Liturgical Calendar in Muscovy's Formative Years," Richard Bosley (Tübingen)

"The Politics of Give and Take: Kormlenie as Service Remuneration and Generalized Exchange, 1488-1726," Brian Davies (University of Texas, San Antonio)

"Reception and Ideology in the Literature of Muscovite Rus'," Andreas Ebbinghaus (Freie Universität, Berlin)

"Confessional and National Identity in Early Muscovite Literature: The Discourse on the Life and Death of Dmitrii lvanovich Donskoi," Harvey Goldblatt (Yale University)

"The Trinity-Sergius Brotherhood in State and Society," Pierre Gonneau (Universite de Paris IV)

"Late Medieval and Early Modern Russian Civilization and Modern Neuroscience," Richard Hellie (University of Chicago)

"Genealogy and Identity in the Rhetoric of Muscovite Rulership," Norman W. Ingham (University of Chicago)

"Nejropsixologicheskie modeli i vozmozhnosti ix primenenija k istorii russkoj srednevekoj kul'tury," Viach. V. Ivanov (University of California, Los Angeles)

"Urban Identities in Sixteenth-Century Muscovy: The Case of Tula," Daniel H. Kaiser (Grinnell College)

"K istorii monastyrskogo zemlevladenija v Dmitrovskom udele v XV-XVI vv.," S. M. Kashtanov (Rossijskaja Akademija nauk, Moskva)

"Four Degrees of Separation: Constructing Non-Christian Identities in Muscovy," Michael Khodarkovsky (Loyola University of Chicago)

"Political Sorcery in Sixteenth-Century Muscovy," Valerie A. Kivelson (University of Michigan)

"Genealogy and Identity Among the Riazan' Elite," Ann M. Kleimola (University of Nebraska)

"Legends and Language in Sixteenth-Century Moscow," Emily Klenin (University of California, Los Angeles)

"Judaizing Without Jews? Moscow-Novgorod, 1470-1504," John Klier (University of London)

"Polemicheskoe sochinenie 1481 g. o xozhdenii `posolon'," B. M. Kloss, V. D. Nazarov (Rossijskaja Akademija nauk, Moskva)

"Unofficial Veneration of the Daniilovichi in Muscovite Rus'," Gail Lenhoff (University of California, Los Angeles)

"Astrology and Politics in Sixteenth-Century Muscovy: Fedor Karpov and the Scrutable God," Giovanni Maniscalco Basile (University of Palermo)

"Mobility, Forced Resettlement and Regional Identity in Muscovy," Janet Martin (University of Miami)

"Donors to the Trinity-Sergius Monastery as a Community of Venerators: Origins, 1360s-1462," David Miller (Roosevelt University)

"Pervoe poslanie Kurbskogo Ivanu Groznomu v biblioteke stranstvujushchego monaxa Iony Soloveckogo (k voprosu o rasprostranenii perepiski v konce XVI-nachale XVII v.)," B. N. Morozov (Rossijskaja Akademija nauk, Moskva)

"Forging a National Identity: Monetary Politics During the Reign of Vasilii I (1389-1425)," Thomas Noonan (University of Minnesota)

"Outlawry (Vorovstvo) and Redemption through Service: Ermak and the Volga Cossacks," Maureen Perrie (University of Birmingham)

"Russkaja cerkov' v XV-XVI vv. Vzaimootnoshenija Moskvy i Novgoroda," R. G. Skrynnikov (Sankt-Peterburg)

"Princess Mariia Golenina: Perpetuating Identity through 'Care for the Deceased'," Ludwig Steindorff (Westfälische-Wilhelms-Universität, Münster)

"Banditry and Provincial Order in Sixteenth-Century Russia," Carol B. Stevens (Colgate University)

"Requiem," Natalia Challis (University of Michigan)

A letter to members from ESSA Vice-President Ann Kleimola

Dear Colleagues,

Your elected flunkies are having a difficult time trying to think of an affordable way to organize our social gathering at Boca. As you may know already, this is a "closed site" resort, which means that all food/drink at the resort must be catered. It would appear that it is also too far to walk to off-site restaurants, especially with the heat and humidity likely in September. Catered dinners start at a little over $40 for chicken, and the organization would be responsible for paying for as many dinners as we order in advance (minimum of 25); should weather or mind-changes interfere, this could bankrupt the group. The price would also deter some of our best participants, namely, graduate students, not to mention yours truly (a notorious cheapskate).

We could arrange for a cash bar, at which drinks would run from about $4 to $7 (mineral water to hard liquor). The glitch here is the minimum fee for the bartender ($75), and the small print that announces a minimum $50 waiter fee for receptions "where little or no food is served." If we do this, we might empty the treasury, which would delay the mailing of your newsletters for the next year or so.

The other option would be to have an informal gathering after the business meeting, either in the meeting room or on a veranda; this would be a "bring your own drinks from the source of your choice" event. It would not be nearly as pleasant as our dinners of recent years, but everyone who wished to attend would be able to afford it.

So, what are your wishes? Better yet, what affordable alternatives can you invent? Please send any suggestions, comments, or other responses to me (e-mail: kleimola@unlinfo.unl.edu). I am counting on you to help us arrange a pleasant gathering.

Should anyone be contemplating plane tickets and not yet know about airports, the choices are Fort Lauderdale or West Palm Beach. Both offer limo service to the resort (be sure to share your luxury sedan or mini-van). There is also limo service from Miami International, at a higher rate. If anyone is interested in golf or sport fishing rates, I have the brochure and would be happy to pass on whatever information it provides.

Professor Edward L. Keenan of Harvard University has been appointed Director of Dumbarton Oaks in Washington for the year beginning July 1, 1988. Dumbarton Oaks is a Harvard administered complex in the Georgetown section of Washington housing important research centers for Byzantine Studies, Pre-Columbian American Studies and Studies in Landscape Architecture. Dumbarton Oaks is also notable for its extensive gardens.

(1) Please take note that forms, directory corrections and dues payments should be sent to: Prof. Isolde Thyrêt, History Department, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242.

(2) All ESSA members may place brief notices in future "Information Exchange" or "Letopis'" columns by sending them to David Prestel, Department of Linguistics and Languages, A-603 Wells Hall, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1027 E-Mail: prestel@pilot.msu.edu FAX 517 432-2746

(3) Böhlau Publishers announces the publication of Das Speisungsbuch von Volokolamsk. Kormovaja kniga Iosifo-Volokolamskogo monastyrja. Eine Quelle zur Sozialgeschichte russischer Klöster im 16. Jahrhundert, herausgegeben und übersetzt von Ludwig Steindorff unter Mitarbeit von Rüdiger Koke, Elena Kondrashkina, Ulrich Lang und Nadja Pohlmann, Köln - Weimar - Wien: Böhlau 1998 (=Bausteine zur Slavischen Philologie und Kulturgeschichte, NF, Reihe B, Editionen, Band 12), S. LX, 388, DM 108. The volume represents the first edition, translation and facsimile reproduction of the 1581/82 Feast Book of the Iosif monastery near Volokolamsk. The text follows the calendar to register the anniversaries of rich donors and prescribes the table order during the year. The Feast book is a valuable source on the prosopography of the Muscovite elite in the 16th century, and provides as well a rich view of everyday life in the monastery. The volume also represents a unique source on the history of food and monastic table culture. - A (German) introduction by ESSA member Ludwig Steindorff treats the history and topography of the monastery, and also describes and analyzes the organization of Muscovite monastic commemorations. Appendices document the names of all those commemorated at the Iosif monastery and those graves identified in the text.

(4) The Russian Academy of Sciences has announced that in May, 1998 it is publishing a festschrift to honor Iaroslav Nikolaevich Shchapov on the occasion of his 70th birthday. The so far untitled volume will concentrate upon the history of Old Rus', Rus' law, and the history of Orthodoxy, all themes central to Shchapov's own work, which, in addition to numerous articles, includes the monographs Kniazheskie ustavy i tserkov' v drevnei Rusi XI-XIV vv. (Moscow, 1972) and Vizantiiskoe i iuzhnoslavianskoe pravovoe nasledie na Rusi v XI-XIII vv. (Moscow, 1978) and the edition of church law texts titled Drevnerusskie kniazheskie ustavy XI-XV vv. (Moscow, 1976).

(5) Warmest congratulations to Natalia Pushkareva (Moscow) and ESSA member Eve Levin (Ohio State University). At the 1997 annual meeting of the Association for Women in Slavic Studies (AWSS) it was announced that they had won the AWSS award for Best Translation in Slavic Women's Studies for Pushkareva's Women in Russian History from the Tenth to the Twentieth Century, trans., ed. Eve Levin (Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, 1997). The citation noted that "This is a very special book, and its translation is a major accomplishment...that, if anything, improves on the original... Levin never allows the translation to stumble, and her vocabulary is wonderfully rich but succinct. This version of Women in Russian History suggests a constructive model for interactive work between scholars in women's studies across linguistic and national borders."

(6) The Department of Women's and Gender Studies of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences announces the preparation of an annotated bibliography of essays and monographs devoted to the topic Women in Russian History. The compilers invite scholars interested in having their work (which was published since 1945) included in this bibliography to send the relevant publication information directly to the Institute (anthpub@iea.msk.ru) or direct to Natalia Pushkareva (pushkar@glasnet.ru), Leading Research Fellow and Coordinator of the Program.

(7) East View Publications, Inc. announces the availability of a Ukrainian language microfiche collection devoted to Ukrainian Regional Archives. The set features guides to 38 Regional Archives with descriptions of holdings from the seventeenth century through publication date. Divided into three sections: Pre-Soviet, Ukrainian Nationalist, and Soviet, each section contains chapters on collections devoted to regional government affairs, legal institution, educational institutions, police, industry and more. Includes Subject and Geographical indexes. The Guides were published in 1958-1989 in limited press runs. The collection consists of 204 microfiche, and is priced at $1,020. Contact Olga Tabolina (micro@eastview.com).

Alexander Bobrov (Institute of Russian Literature [Pushkinskij dom]) has published Apokrificheskoe "Skazanie Afroditiana" v literature i knizhnosti Drevnej Rusi (SPb: Nauka, 1994) and Novgorodskie letopisi XV vieka. Avtoreferat doktorskoj dissertacii (SPb, 1996).

Sergei Bogatyrev (Renvall Institute for Historical Research, University of Helsinki) is currently working on Ivan IV; the Boyar Duma in the 16th century; the Thomas Smythe Embassy to Russia, 1604-5.

Olga Glagoleva (University of Toronto) has forthcoming, Working with Russian Archival Documents: A Guide to Modern Handwriting, Document Forms, Language Patterns, and Other Related Topics (University of Toronto, IERAP Working Papers #2, 1998).

Priscilla Hunt (University of Massachusetts Amherst) has a forthcoming article "Avvakum's 'Fifth Petition' and the Language of Prophecy" in Essays in Honor of William Harkins, R. Belknap, ed. 1998.

Susan E. Jones (University of Chicago) is working on a dissertation entitled "The Later Golden Horde and the Dynamics of Tribal Confederation, 1357-1419."

Roman Kovalev (University of Minnesota) has published with T.S. Noonan, "Prayer, Illumination, and Good Times: The Export of Byzantine Wine and Oil to the North of Russia in Pre-Mongol Times," Byzantium and the North, Acta Byzantina Fennica, Vol. VII: 1995-1996, (1997), 73-96. He and Gert Rispling assisted T.S. Noonan with "Viking Age Dirham Hoards From Eastern and Northern Europe," in A Survey of Numismatic Research 1990-1995: International Association of Professional Numismatists Special Publication No. 13, (Berlin, 1997), 751-759. In addition, Roman Kovalev has the the following articles in print or in press: "What Do the Birch-Bark Texts Tell Us About Everyday Church Life and Christianity in Pre Mongol Novgorod?" Modern Greek Studies Yearbook (in press); "Critica: E.P. Kazakov, Kultura rannei Volzhskoi Bolgarii," Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi, Vol. IX (in print); with T.S. Noonan, "Chto govoriat berestianye gramoty ob ekonomike Kievskoi Rusi," [Sbornik for A.A. Zimin] (Moscow), (in print); with T.S. Noonan and H.M. Sherman, "The Development and Diffusion of Glassmaking in Pre-Mongol Russia," Ceramics and Civilization (Westerville, OH, 1998), (in print); "Critica: S.A. Pletneva, Sarkel i ´shelkovyiŞ put'," Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi, Vol. X (1998) (in press). He also has the following book reviews in preparation: A.E. Leontev, Arkheolohiia meri. K predystorii Severo-Vostochnoi Rusi (The Archaeology of the Merya), Early Medieval Studies (in preparation); with T.S. Noonan, B. Struminski, Linguistic Interrelations in Early Rus: Northmen, Finns, and East Slavs (Ninth to Eleventh Centuries), Ukrainian Studies. Lastly, he has submitted the following entries to The Supplement to the Modern Encyclopedia of Russian, Soviet & Eurasian History: Bania, Bannik, Berkovets, Biliar Bulgar, Birch-Bark Texts, Bridges, Roads, and Pavements in Kievan Rus, Boats, Ships, and Water Transport in Kievan Rus, Charity and Patronage in Kievan Rus, Coinage and the Coinless Period in Kievan Rus, Credit and Moneylending in Medieval Rus (ca. 1000-1450), Domovoi.

Gail Lenhoff (UCLA) has recently published Early Russian Hagiography: The Lives of Prince Fedor the Black. Slavistische Veröffentlichungen Fachbereich Neuere Fremdsprachliche Philologien der Freien Universität Berlin, Band 82. Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden, 1997 (496 pp.) and "Vsja svjatye pomjanuvse...." Strategies of Biographical Reconstruction in Muscovite Saints' Lives." In Sprache--Text-- Geschichte. Festschrift für Klaus-Dieter Seemann, ed. Andreas Guski and Witold Kosny. Specimena Philologiae Slavicae, Supplementband 56. Verlag Otto Sagner, Munich, 1997: pp. 161-173.

Ingunn Lunde (University of Bergen) is writing a doctoral thesis on Cyril of Turov's homiletic rhetoric and and its Greek sources under the supervision of Jostein Børtnes. Recent publications include (ed.) The Holy Fool in Byzantium and Russia: Papers Presented at a Symposium Arranged by the Norwegian Committee of Byzantine Studies, (1995); "Ritorika i problema zhanra v drevnerusskoi literature," Scando-Slavica, 41, pp. 131-143; "The Rhetoric of Paradox: Cyril of Turov's Sermon on the Taking of Christ's Body from the Cross," in Celebrating Creativity: Essays in Honor of Jostein Børtnes, eds. Knut Andreas Grimstad and Ingunn Lunde, Bergen: 1997, pp. 19-33; (with Jostein Børtnes): "Paraphrasi audacius vertere: Aleksei K. Tolstoi's Rendering of John of Damascus' Nekrosima Idiomela," in Cultural Discontinuity and Reconstruction: The Byzanto-Slav Heritage and the Creation of Russian National Literature in the Nineteenth Century, eds. Jostein Børtnes and Ingunn Lunde, Oslo: Solum, 1997) pp. 121-142. "The Rhetoric of Apophaticism," which was presented as a paper in a symposium entitled "Apophaticism in Theology, Rhetoric, and Literature" at the University of Bergen, will be published soon in a conference volume.

Janet Martin (University of Miami) has published "Mobility Forced Resettlement and Regional Identity in Muscovy," in Culture and Identity in Muscovy, 1359-1584, eds. A. M. Kleimola and G. D. Lenhoff (Moscow: ITZ Garant, 1997), 431-449 and "'Backwardness' in Russian Peasant Culture: A Theoretical Consideration of Agricultural Practices in the Seventeenth Century," in Religion and Culture in Early Modern Russia and Ukraine, eds. Samuel H. Baron and Nancy S. Kollmann (De Kalb, IL.: Northern Illinois University Press, 1997), 19-33.

Marcia Morris (Georgetown University) has published "Feofan Prokopovich's Vladimir as a Vehicle for the Comic View of History in Early East Slavonic Drama" in Australian Slavonic and East European Studies 10 (1996) and "Protopop Avvakum Petrovich" and Feofan Prokopovich" in Dictionary of Literary Biography: Early Modern Russian Writers.

Donald Ostrowski (Harvard University) recently published Muscovy and the Mongols: Cross-Cultural Influences on the Steppe Frontier NY/Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), xvi, 329 pp.

Richard Pope (York University) has recently published "Nekotorye mysli po povodu izdanija srednevekovykh slavjanskikh tekstov," Trudy otdela drevnei russkoj literatury, 50, pp. 242-51.

Cynthia M. Vakareliyska (University of Oregon) is working on a book on the linguistics and textological features of the Curzon Gospel (c. 1354, W. Bulgaria) and on a computer typology of medieval Slavic calendars of saints.

Betty J. Zenkovsky (Daytona Beach, Florida) is currently translating S. Zenkovsky, Russkoe Staroobrjadchestvo: Dukhovnye dvizhenija 17-ogo veka (Fink Verlag, Munich, 1970, and Vol. 2 thereto, his unpublished manuscript, Russkoe Staroobrjadchestvo: 17yj - 19-yj veka.

Daniel Kaiser-President Ann Kleimola-Vice President

Isolde Thyrêt-Secretary-Treasurer David Prestel-Newsletter Editor

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