XVII INTERNATIONAL (EXTRAORDINARY) CONGRESS OF SLAVISTS (PARIS, AUGUST 25 – 30, 2025)

THE SECOND SOUTH SLAVIC REDACTION OF THE NON-VERSE (PLAIN) PROLOG

The Non-Verse (Plain) Prolog is a Slavic book which contains short texts about saints and feasts for every day of the year. There are two South Slavic redactions of the Non-Verse Prolog. The existence of the second redaction was recently discovered. It is...

DATIVE CASE EXPRESSING DIRECTION IN MIDDLE BULGARIAN AND OLD CZECH LANGUAGE: NON-PREPOSITIONAL VERSUS PREPOSITIONAL USE

The article is devoted to one of the semantic uses of the dative case – dative expressing direction in Middle Bulgarian and Old Czech – with particular emphasis on its non-prepositional use, regarded as more archaic, which is contrasted with prepositional us...

INTERPRETING LIVING WORLD IN LATE MEDIEVAL APOLOGETIC TEXTS: NATURE AND BODY IN THE SLAVONIC TRANSLATION OF JOHN VI KANTAKOUZENOS’ POLEMIC TEXTS AGAINST ISLAM

Written after his abdication from the Byzantine throne in 1354, the polemical discourses against Islam and in defence of Christianity by John VI Kantakouzenos (d.1382), were soon translated in the fourteenth-century Balkan Slavic milieu. Typically for the apo...

ALEXANDER AND THE FANTASTIC CREATURES OF THE EAST

The popular text of the Alexander Romance contained many animals and strange creatures that meant a challenge for the translators of the Greek text into Slavonic in any of its two recensions. The techniques employed varied, as much as the illustrations that...

PLANTS IN EXEGESIS: DIFFICULTIES IN MEDIEVAL SLAVONIC TRANSLATIONS OF JOHN CHRYSOSTOM AND THEODORET OF CYRRHUS

This study examines how medieval South Slavonic translators rendered Greek botanical terminology into Old Church Slavonic (Old Bulgarian) and how their choices varied. Early translations from the 9^th – 11^th centuries tended to be context...

BOOK OF NATURE IN CROATIAN GLAGOLITIC SERMONES DE SANCTIS

One of the most important sources for researching the Book of Nature in the Croatian Glagolitic medieval literature are sermon collections. The chapters based on the Book of Nature are found in the de sanctis cycle of the four Glagolitic manuscripts from the 1...

STRUCTURE OF THE SEMANTIC FIELD OF EXISTENCE IN BULGARIAN, CZECH AND RUSSIAN

The paper discusses the lexical semantics of predicates in the semantic field of existence and its structure in three Slavic languages – Bulgarian, Czech and Russian. The transformations in this field in Bulgarian are emphasized. 179 verbs at liest are iden...

ON THE LIMITS OF WORD-FORMATION

The paper is dedicated to a fundamental issue in derivatology – the issue of productivity (understood as the derivability of one word from another at a formal level) and motivation (understood as the semantic conditioning of a given word by another) of deriv...

WOMEN’S WRITING IN CONTEMPORARY SOUTH SLAVIC POETRY

The study focuses on women’s poetic work in the South Slavic literatures during the first decades of the 21st century. Its object of observation and comparison is the female lyrical discourse in the countries of the Slavic South, with an emphasis on Bulgaria...

THE FAMILY NOVEL IN POST-YUGOSLAV LITERATURES

The article examines, in a comparative perspective, works from Serbian, Croatian and Slovenian literature that are representative of the family novel. The analysis focuses on the following aspects of novelistic structure: modes of conceptualizing family his...

THE INTELLECTUAL IN POWER: RECIPROCAL INTERPRETATIONS OF EVENTS AFTER 1989 (V. HAVEL, ZH. ZHELEV, B. DIMITROVA, A. MICHNIK)

The article examines the place and the social roles assigned to intellectuals following the events of the autumn of 1989 in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, and Poland. The central questions are, among others, why exactly were they the ones expected to shape...