The Slavonic and East European Mediæval Studies Group

The Slavonic and East European Mediæval Studies Group was formed in 1974 by a group of British mediævalists including Anne Pennington, Robert Auty and Dame Elizabeth Hill in order to provide a means for all with an interest in the Middle Ages amongst the Slavs and elsewhere in Eastern Europe to meet informally and to exchange views and information relevant to this study. At present the group has over sixty members in Great Britain and abroad. It meets twice yearly, usually on the Saturday nearest to Martinmas and on a Saturday in the second half of March; in recent years meetings have alternated between Oxford, Cambridge and London. Three or four papers are normally read at each meeting. A quarterly bulletin is also circulated to members.

The group has reciprocal arrangements with the Early Slavic Studies Association in the United States, providing for the exchange of information and for members of ESSA to attend meetings of SEEMSG as members when in Britain and vice versa.

Links

The ESSA home page
The BASSEES homepage
Centre d’études slaves
Obshtezhitie
Abstracts of previous papers

The officers of the group for the current year are:

• Chairman: Professor Ralph Cleminson, SLAS, University of Portsmouth, Park Building, King Henry I Street, Portsmouth PO1 2DZ
• Secretary/Treasurer: Dr Jana Howlett, Jesus College, Cambridge.

The annual subscription is £5. Enquiries concerning membership should be made to the Treasurer; other enquiries, including offers of papers, should be addressed to the Chairman.

The last meeting took place on Saturday, 14th November 2009 in the Deneke Common Room, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Papers were read by:

• Simon Franklin: “Printing Moscow: Significances of the Frontispiece to the 1663 Bible” [abstract]
• Olga Sevastyanova: “The Myths of Novgorod” [abstract]
• Georgi Parpulov: “Slavonic Manuscripts in the United States”[abstract]

The next meeting will be on Saturday, 13th March 2010 at Jesus College, Cambridge. Papers are solicited.

Please note that the Chairman is currently on sabbatical and unable to update the webpage. For up-to-date information please contact the Secretary/Treasurer.

A small amount of financial support is available to enable postgraduate students to attend meetings.

Because of the heavy cost of posting the Bulletin, members who receive paper copies but have access to e-mail are urged to give the Secretary their addresses, so that future Bulletins can be sent electronically.

Современные проблемы археографии

The Library of the Russian Academic of Sciences has announced a conference on this subject to be held on 24th-26th May 2010. Offers of papers are requested by 15th January.

H-Early Slavic List

H-EarlySlavic is a forum for the discussion of Slavic history, literature, and culture before 1725. It is focused primarily on East Slavic (Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian) regions, though West and South Slavic areas will also be considered. H-EarlySlavic is a scholarly list: it is aimed at professional scholars and their students.

Wikiproject Russian History

Updated 3rd December 2009