Enigma in Rus and Medieval Slavic Cultures

Enigma in Rus and Medieval Slavic CulturesEnigma in Rus and Medieval Slavic Cultures is a thematic essay volume to investigate the history and function of enigma in Orthodox Slavic cultures with a special focus on the cultural history of Rus and Muscovy. Its seventeen case studies across disciplinary boundaries analyze Slavic biblical and patristic translations, liturgical commentaries, occult divinatory texts, and dream interpretations. Slavic riddles inscribed on walls and compilations of

Disability rolls are rising

The twentieth century gave us Fabrikoid

This work offers a compelling analysis of how these traditions intersected to shape one of the most enduring and profound forms of artistic expression

Cold War memory in Berlin receives a special emphasis

often mystical

The sort of romance to stir the coldest of hearts

Die Zulieferindustrie für Kraft- und Luftfahrzeuge war das eigentliche Rückgrat der nationalsozialistischen Rüstungs- und Kriegswirtschaft

inwieweit die Praxis der Forschungs- und Innovationspolitik

from the tensions inherent in its labor control mechanisms to the ideological shifts employed to mask its waning grip on power

her marriage to an American after the war

Despite continued repression

the Jews of medieval Ashkenaz were preoccupied solely with the supernatural and otherworldly: magic and mysticism