We kindly inform you that, as long as the subject affiliation of our 300.000+ articles is in progress, you might get unsufficient or no results on your third level or second level search. In this case, please broaden your search criteria.
REVIEW OF: Larysa Olenych, compiler. Iakiv Hnizdovs'kyi: “Zhyttia liudyny—til'ky nedoskonalyi vidblysk ii vlasnoi mrii”; Bibliohrafichnyi pokazhchyk [Jacques Hnizdovsky: “The Life of a Human Being Is Just an Imperfect Reflection of Their Own Dreams”; A Bibliographic Guide]. Introduction by Nataliia Sobkovych, Navchal'na knyha—Bohdan, 2015, library.te.ua/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/2016_gnizdowsky.pdf. Rodom z Ukrainy [Born in Ukraine] 9. 189 pp. Illustrations. Index. E-book.
More...
REVIEW OF: Romana M. Bahry. Dr. Wladimir Sylwester Kindraczuk: Forgotten Chemist of Łańcut and Pioneer of Probiotics; Discoverer of the Probiotic Bacterium Bacillus carpathicus in Hutsul Huslanka / Dr. Włodzimierz Sylwester Kindraczuk: Zapomniany aptekarz miasta Łańcuta i naukowiec-pionier probiotyki; Odkrywca probiotycznej bakterii Bacillus carpathicus w huculskiej huślance. Polish translation by Leszek Puchała, preface by Roman Plyatsko, 2018. xxiv, 346 pp. Illustrations. Map. Glossary of Names. Extended-Family Charts. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
More...
REVIEW OF: Liliana Hentosh. Mytropolyt Sheptyts'kyi 1923-1939: Vyprobuvannia idealiv [Metropolitan Sheptyts'kyi 1923-1939: A Test of Ideals]. VNTL-Klasyka, 2015. xii, 588 pp. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Name Index.
More...
REVIEW OF: Christian Raffensperger. Ties of Kinship: Genealogy and Dynastic Marriage in Kyivan Rus'. Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, 2016. Distributed by Harvard UP. Harvard Series in Ukrainian Studies. x, 414 pp. Tables. Notes. Works Cited. Index.
More...
REVIEW OF: Oleksandr Boron'. Povisti Tarasa Shevchenka i zakhidnoievropeis'ki literatury: Retseptsiia ta intertekstual'ni zv''iazky [Taras Shevchenko’s Novellas and Western European Literature: Reception and Intertexts]. 2nd ed., Vydavnytstvo “Krytyka,” 2015. 158 pp. Bibliography. Index.
More...
Thaddeus V. Gromada, editor. Oskar Halecki, 1891-1973: Eulogies and Reflections. Preface by Jerzy Wyrozumski, Tatra Eagle Press, 2013. 80 pp.
More...
The two articles in this issue that came out of Platforma represent that next generation and evoke the breadth of Ukrainian Studies, from rich work in the humanities and literature to the social sciences and political geography. In the first article, Darya Semenova uses popular adventure books from the 1930s-40s to explore the development of a Ukrainian Soviet identity. She argues that these adventure stories shaped both the borders of the Soviet world and the contours of belonging to the Soviet community for Ukrainian youth. In these stories, the tenets and functions of Socialist Realism permeate, while the stories largely follow the conventions of the adventure story genre, which are rooted in the colonial efforts to bring order and civilization into spaces of chaos, backwardness, and barbarism. This combination reinforces Soviet identity, behaviour, and community at the cost of de-emphasizing the protagonists’—and the young readers’—Ukrainian-ness.
More...
This article focuses on historical and contemporary connotations of the Intermarium concept Ukrainian and Polish academic and political thought on how to organi ze and govern the space between the Baltic and Black seas employing the ideas of Józef Piłsudski, Józef Beck, Michał Czajkowski Mykhailo Chaikovs kyi )), Mykha i lo Drahomanov, members of the Brotherhood of Saints Cyril and Methodius, and other intellectuals. In this context, it t races Ukraine’s and Poland’s attempts to construct Intermarium type intergovernmental frameworks in the aftermath of the Cold War. It also examines the current stage of Ukrainian Polish co operation the latter being regarded by Interm arium founding fathers as a vital precondition for this framework to be realized. In this respect, the article considers bilateral advancements in political, economic, cultural, and security spheres. As the emergence of a Ukrainian Polish institutionalized linchpin is impossible in the contemporary geopolitical architecture, the article proposes that the term “Intermarium” has become ambiguous. If by chance the Intermarium comes into being as a defensive alliance today, it might bring more harm than benefit to the regional security.
More...
At the turn of the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries, syllabic devotional songs in Ruthenian (RDS) make their first appearance as occasional appendices or notes in the margins of manuscripts serving quite divergent functions (triodia, evangelia and the like). The first systematic collections of RDS were compiled abroad by Ruthenian monks having left Ukraine for monasteries around Moscow from the 1660s onwards. It required several more decades, till the beginning of the eighteenth century, before these songs were also being systematically collected in song manuscripts throughout the Ruthenian lands themselves. The article argues against established views to the effect that this documentary gap was due to a massive loss of seventeenth-century Ruthenian song manuscripts. It should rather be taken at face value as an indication that some perceptual change with respect to devotional songs is likely to have taken place among Ruthenian literate classes at the beginning of the eighteenth century. It is argued that the rise of Ruthenian song manuscripts marks the beginning of a collecting culture, which treats devotional songs as a cherished and coveted collectable, where heretofore no particular value seems to have been accorded to these songs. The article explores the social profiles of song collectors and the individual makeup of song collections to offer a hypothetical outline of this emerging collecting culture, addressing issues of modes of exchange, methods of collecting and compiling, the specific relationship between collector and collectable, with a view to arguing for a highly individualized and intimate culture between private devotion and incipient object-oriented consumerism.
More...
This report from the field concerns a collaborative project which resulted in successfully adding the Cyrillic fields to about 30,000 Ukrainian bibliographic records in OCLC WorldCat, the world’s largest online catalogue. Historically, the Ukrainian records in English-speaking libraries were only provided in transliteration according to the Library of Congress Romanization Table. However, the current standards also require the original script, such as the Ukrainian Kyrylytsia. While automating the Cyrillicization of Ukrainian legacy records is theoretically straightforward, in practice it faced more than one challenge, from poor quality of transliteration to the historical changes in Ukrainian orthography. The report presents the OCLC Ukrainian Cyrillicization project and discusses the steps in its implementation as an example of a successful collaboration in the areas of bibliographic automation, Ukrainian philology and culture, Slavic cataloguing, and linguistics.
More...
REVIEW OF: Frank E. Sysyn, editor-in-chief and with an introduction. Mykhailo Zubryts'kyi: Zibrani tvory i materialy u tr'okh tomakh; Hazetni publikatsii, etnohrafichni ta arkhivni materialy [Mykhailo Zubryts'kyi: Collected Works and Materials in Three Volumes; Newspaper Articles, Ethnographic Works, and Archival Materials]. Vydavnytstvo “Litopys,” 2019. Vol. 3 of Mykhailo Zubryts'kyi: Zibrani tvory i materialy u tr'okh tomakh, edited by Sysyn et al., 3 vols., 2013-19. 1024 pp. Illustrations. Indexes.
More...
REVIEW OF: Oleksandra Wallo. Ukrainian Women Writers and the National Imaginary: From the Collapse of the USSR to the Euromaidan. U of Toronto P, 2020. x, 201 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
More...
As it is well known, in the literature one can find observations which state that Dacian settlements in the Orăştie Mountains were placed in certain “sunny” spots (Pl. I/1). At the settlement on top of Dealul Grădiştii (Sarmizegetusa Regia), it is known for example that the southern slope of the hill is the most suitable for living. Although interesting, the observation deserves a bit of investigation because Sun exposure changes throughout the year, as the position of the Sun changes from the observer's perspective. At the same time, on certain days certain sunny spots may have longer exposure than others depending on the configuration of the local terrain and the current season. The aim of the following study was therefore to verify those observations via computation, through a series of simulations which estimate the duration of direct Sun exposure for each topographic spot from the area, in the first day of each month throughout the year, for year 100 A.D. That was accomplished in GRASS GIS, with the r.sunmask module, which calculates the distribution of the shadows resulting from the local topography and the specified Sun position. For local topographical representation the SRTM 30 m DEM was used, whereas the Sun position was deduced with the Solar Position Algorithm for the aforementioned dates, at 10 minutes intervals. The results showed that the northern slope has no Sun exposure in cold season, whereas the eastern half of the southern slope, together with eastern slope is the sunniest in the cold season. Cold season in this case means early October all the way to early March (Pl. I/2, II/1-2, III/1-2). As summer draws near (Pl. IV/1-2, V/1-2), living conditions on the rest of the southern slope improve, to the point where the entirety of the southern slope becomes very habitable on a larger scale than the eastern slope. Meanwhile, similar changes occur on the northern slope, which likewise becomes very sunny eventually, especially in the western parts, but here, on the northern slope, the changes happen more slowly, more lately. Moreover, as the cold season returns (Pl. VI/1-2, VII), living conditions on the northern slope become very harsh far earlier. Although in warm season (May to September) fairly lengthy Sun exposure exists on every slope, it is in cold season when the local topography becomes crucial for providing satisfactory living conditions, and only the southern and eastern slopes can provide that in this situation. Almost all the known terraces or areas of habitation in this case are located on the southern and eastern slopes, so the observations from the literature proved true, but they only have relevance in the aforementioned context. At the same time, the results showed that the best living conditions on the eastern and southern slopes are located towards the top, in the upper parts. These places have the highest Sun exposure all around the year and it is perhaps unsurprising that the most remarkable constructions and items were found in such areas. These include temples, workshops, aristocratic dwellings, prestigious goods (painted pottery, glass items, amphorae). Overall, the results presented how important the local topography was for providing proper living conditions, and showcased very well how able the inhabitants of Sarmizegetusa Regia were to adapt and live according to the laws of nature. At the same time, it became apparent how persistent the local population, and especially the elites, was to settle into a mountainous area with such a harsh climate. In the next stage, the patterns identified in this study will be further investigated and reviewed by examining other Dacian settlements from the Orăştie Mountains.
More...
Parish records are an important historical source for demographers and historians. They contain various data of importance for researchers: records of births, marriages, and deaths, then dates, names, surnames, occupations, diseases, etc. The paper analyses the archival material through the preserved parish records of the temples of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the Toplica area. Individual birth, marriage, and death records are part of the Collection of Registers of the Historical Archive of Toplica in Prokuplje. Based on various data they contain, this original documentary material is suitable for research not only in this area, but also for wider demographic conditions, since the newly liberated parts of Serbia had been deserted since 1878 and inhabited by people from various parts of the Serbian ethnic area.
More...
The paper discusses the interpretation of an important scene from the Column of Trajan, namely scene CXXI (Pl. V/2). This scene, part of a larger whole (Scenes CXIX-CXXII; Pl. V/1-3), was interpreted by most researchers as representing the group suicide of the Dacians during the siege of their most important fortress, identified by historians with Sarmizegetusa Regia and placed by archaeologists at Grădiştea de Munte in the Orăştie Mountains. Although not the first one to consider its meaning as different, Constantin and Hadrian Daicoviciu popularized, through their 1965 booklet regarding Trajan’s Column, the interpretation that the scene is rather representing the distribution of the last water reserves by the under-siege Dacians. In order to reanalyze the meaning of this scene, the article starts by presenting the most important representations on the Column in relation to Dacian fortifications, during the last campaign of Emperor Trajan. After the embarkment of the Romans at Brundisium (Scene LXXIX; Pl. I/1) and the passing of the Danube at Drobeta (Scenes XCVIII-XCIX; Pl. I/2), the Romans first encounter a Dacian fortification in scene CXI (Pl. II/1), where they defeat a group of Dacians. In the next scene, CXII (Pl. II/1), the Romans leave a camp to start a siege visible in the next three scenes (CXIII-CXVI; Pl. III/1-4). After they win this decisive battle, we can see, in the next scenes, how they continue to prepare siegeworks (scene CXVII; Pl. IV/1), while in the next scene a Dacian embassy asks for mercy, being declined (CXVIII; Pl. IV/2). Next four scenes (CXIX-CXXII; Pl. V/1-3) are actually the ones which contain the problematic scene (CXXI; Pl. V/2). Here we can see only Dacians, inside a fortification, firstly burning their own buildings on the outskirts of the fortification (CXIX; Pl. V/1), while afterwards we can see them inside the main precinct of the fortification, drinking some kind of liquid from a vessel. After this some of them die, while others, looking back at the scene, are running out of the fortification (CXXII; Pl. V/3). While describing these scenes I have put much emphasis on the architecture associated with these Dacian fortifications. Some ideas, proposed mainly by E. Thill through her work in this direction, seem to indicate that these fortifications contain the biggest concentration of Dacian structures on all the column, while, at the same time, they show a character closer to the representations we find, usually, in Roman urban associated contexts. The discussion can be expanded in the sense that these fortifications represented in the mentioned scenes (CXI, CXIII-CXVI and CXIX-CXXII, plus the one in scene CXXIV-CXXV; Pl. VI/1) could actually represent the same fortification, although this is not a certainty. At the same time, the scenes from the end of the first war (LXXIV-LXXV; Pl. VI/2-3) could be related, in a wider view, both through the complexity of the Dacian fortification represented and through the fact that, actually, a unique architectural feature is represented on scene LXXIV, a rock-cut channel filled with water. In the next part of the paper the interpretation for the scene, proposed by C. and H. Daicoviciu, has been followed more carefully, while some archaeological, geographical and hydrographical aspects (Pl. VII/1-3) tried to confer it a more localized context. In this context I try to put forward my own conclusions. Afterwards, an ancillary aspect is discussed, posed by the association of a vessel with inscription found at Buridava by D. Berciu with the vessel in the CXXI scene, discussion which has led me to the approach of the vessel with the Decebalus Per Scorilo stamp found at Grădiştea de Munte in a context relatable to the Daco-Roman wars (Pl. VIII/1-2).
More...
The archaeological site Ardeu – Cetăţuie is well known in the literature due to the results of the systematic research developed in the last two decades. Thus, an important Dacian fortification was uncovered on the hilltop, preceded by sporadic prehistoric traces of habitation and followed by a Middle Ages fortification. Other remains pertaining to the aforementioned periods have been identified at the foot of the hill (Pl. I).Several ancient objects appeared by chance during the industrial works. Amongst them there is a bronze dagger, discovered by a local and donated to the Orăştie Museum. Later, it became part of the archaeology collection of Deva Museum. The necessity of a rescue excavation has led to a single campaign, conducted by L. Nemoianu and I. Andriţoiu, in 1973. The results were published as brief report which addressed the respective dagger (text and illustration). Although the publication of the artefact was resumed three times in the 1990s, the information comprised only the find spot and a concise description. Therefore, we are rediscussing the item, with the intention to provide all the available data at this moment, including the correct chronological framing. The bronze dagger is small in size. The handle features a rounded plate and four perforations for fastening. The triangular blade is elongated, having a longitudinal median rib. The object was preserved in a good condition (Fig. 1; Pl. II).The chronological context is illustrated by the Middle Bronze Age ceramic materials, unearthed on top of Cetăţuie and also on the terraces below. They add to several fragments from the same chronological phase, found in different spots from the area of the site. The pottery can be attributed to the final stage of the Middle Bronze Age and the early stage of the Late Bronze Age. In terms of culture, we are dealing with materials belonging to phase III of the Wietenberg culture and to the Bădeni III-Deva horizon, which is placed on the next chronological level. In regards to typology, analogies for the Ardeu dagger are found in the larger space of the Carpathian Basin, namely in the neighbouring cultural milieus of the Transylvanian territory, but also further to the west. Yet the closest similarities are displayed by two daggers discovered in Slovakia, dated at the end of the Early Bronze Age and the debut of the Middle Bronze Age. Nevertheless, the archaeological context which illustrates the Bronze Age occupancy at Ardeu and in the surrounding area, corroborated with other few finds of this kind of contemporary pieces in Transylvania, determined us to frame our artefact in the early stage of the Late Bronze Age. This dating could be revised if similar finds with well determined context would appear. Presented in the light and limits of the data available so far, the bronze dagger form Ardeu adds to the very small number of similar artefacts discovered in Transylvania.
More...
Surveys undertaken in recent years in the Micia camp have led to the identification of a rich and varied archaeological material, consisting of various categories of pieces, including the elements of Roman military equipment. The Micia camp, located at a short distance from the Mureş Gorge, was an important strategic point of Dacia's defensive system. Through its position, this fortification guarded the western border of the province, controlling its access through the most important route to Pannonia. One of the troops stationed here since the beginning of this fortification is Cohors II Flavia Commagenorum Equitata Sagittariorum. The soldiers of this auxiliary unit, consisting of oriental archers, infantry and cavalry, had as a favorite weapon the bow and arrows. Over time, several pieces of military equipment have been identified that can be attributed to Commagien soldiers. In these lines are presented 4 other artifacts, discovered in recent years on the surface of the camp from Veţel. It is about two arrowheads with a trilobate profile, made of iron and two deer horn laths. These specifically oriental elements indicate once again the characteristics of the equipment used by the Commagean archers stationed at Micia.
More...
The location known as Canton Drum is in Mihai Viteazu (Aranyosszentmihály) village (Fig. 1-2; Pl. I/a-b), near the road junction connecting the highways Transylvania and Turda-Sebeş, south-east from the settlement, on the third terrace of the Arieş river. During the Austrian-Hungarian period, the place (located to the south-east from the former Alsózentmihályfalva/Sînmihaiul-de-Jos) was popularly named by the people Saj-kút (Fântâna Şai) after the name of the well pole located at the base of the hill (Fig. 3). The archaeological finds are scattered across a wide area and consist of prehistoric ceramic shards and lithic tools, Roman and post-Roman ceramic shards and Medieval ceramics. The prehistoric finds located on the surface, although scarce, give evidence about the existence of a small settlement, of undetermined size, with a natural defence towards the north-east. Also, the location of the prehistoric settlement allowed the surveyance of the communication pathways that connected south of the contemporary city of Turda. Following the Roman conquest the agricultural land nearby was exploited by the new arrivals, the numerous traces indicating intense human activities; the rural settlement was part of the ancient territory of Potaissa. In the early Middle Ages there was at least one hamlet, pottery could signal the traces of the old settlement Zent Mihel-falwa (1170/1176). In fact, from the Middle Ages until the modern period both Sînmihaiul-de-Jos (hu.=Alsoszentmihályfalva) as well as Sînmihaiul-de-Sus (hu.=Felsőszentmihályfalva) belonged to Scaunul Arieşului (hu.=Aranyosszék). The two villages will form the modern settlement Aranyosszentmihály (Sînmihai), that will belong administratively and territorially to the Turda-Arieş County (Torda Aranyos). We believe that more precise information related to the culture strata and the limits of the settlements, the manner in which they succeed each other and their chronology, can be obtained following more archaeological research of the areas discussed. With regards to the materials we have analysed (Pl. II-III), particularly the extremely fragmented prehistoric ceramics, the difficult tasks were establishing the chronology, the culture to which they belonged, notes about the shape and the decorations. We would like to mention that the Roman materials, much more numerous, will be analysed by other authors.Further on, we have put forward several working hypotheses regarding the possible role the habitation played during the course of time.
More...
Sports activity analysis at the level of various populations and areas has become a unique tool to study, understand and probe the past, and the study of sports has begun to concern more and more researchers. The development of the sports movement was one of the important characteristics of the early twentieth century in Romania, and Transylvania and Banat were, from this perspective two of the regions with the greatest importance and influence. In addition to other forms of modernization that have manifested themselves in society, from industrialization to education, the growing importance of sport has been one of the positive realities of Greater Romania, in the first decades of its existence.Considering that in the process of making and developing the sports movement you can see a part of the history of Romania , the purpose of this article is to analyze the situation of clubs in Transylvania and Banat during the 1900-1939 period. In general, I will make a census of the clubs from the two regions, both during the time they were part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (1900-1918) and also after they became part of the Greater Romania (1919-1939), and I will compare the circumstances with those of the groups in the Old Kingdom. Then, from the perspective of sports regionalism, we will dissect the participation and performances of the clubs from Transylvania and Banat in the competitions of the time at the most important sports of the period, namely football and tennis. In this article I will refer to Transylvania in the extended sense that includes Transylvania, Crișana and Maramureș, and the main source of the unique information presented is the press of the time.
More...