Dr. Cynthia Vakareliyska, Professor of Linguistics at the University of Oregon, will give a public lecture on "Demonstration of an Online Collation of Medieval Slavic, Greek and Latin Calendars of Saints" on Thursday, April 26th at 3:30pm in 165 Thompson Library. Best known for her work and analyses of the 1354 Curzon Gospel (Add. Ms. 39, 628 British Museum), Dr. Vakareliyska has contributed to original ways of analyzing the "calendar" portions in Slavic manuscripts, especially those often found as supplements to the Gospels. The lack of consistency among calendars, the sheer number of calendars, and the fact that most medieval Slavic calendars of saints are unpublished have made it notoriously difficult to access and organize the data from such a large corpus, and to identify many of the saints who appear in calendars on more minor feast days.รข C. Vakareliyska.
This talk is sponsored by the Hilandar Research Library and the Resource Center for Medieval Slavic Studies, the Center for Slavic and East European Studies and the Kenneth E. Naylor Professorship in South Slavic Studies.
For more information, contact Brian Joseph (joseph.1@osu.edu).
(Also note that Prof. Vakareliyska will also give the annual Naylor Lecture the following day.)
