Call for Book Chapters
The Balkan History Association invite you to participate in the preparation of a volume on the study of the Cyrillic manuscript heritage of the Balkans and Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times (c. 1000–1600). This volume will follow three basic issues: the text of the manuscripts, the locations of their production, and the persons who are directly responsible for their creation.
We invite you to write a book chapter related to the study of the content of books: their typology (genre/repertoire; biblical, liturgical, regulatory, theological, preaching, instructive, etc.); features of language and recensions of manuscripts; specifics of the translation traditions; comments on the content; readers’ perceptions of the text; and other aspects related to the textology of Cyrillic books. The volume will focus on the places of production of books (cathedral, monastic, parish, princely, noble locations) as centers of book creation; the “God-blessed Place”: whether a town or village was saved because of the presence of a scriptorium in it; problems of using toponyms in the text and margins/colophons; and the perception and influence on the culture and education of the society of scriptoria. In the third section of the volume, we intend to re-examine the issues of customers of codices, their copyists, buyers and depositors, and their authors’ motivation to order, rewrite, buy and donate books; perceptions and ideas about their mission by enumerators, buyers, investors, and authors; mentality, religiosity, education of scribes, buyers, investors, authors; and social affiliation, level of material well-being, and professional affiliation of enumerators, buyers, depositors, and authors.
Submission procedure
The volume will be published by Peter Lang (in the series “South-East European History”). Original manuscripts should be prepared following the editorial guide of Peter Lang available on its website, especially “Style Guidelines – British English” and “Submission Guidelines“. Manuscripts must not have been published, submitted for publication or available on the internet elsewhere. Interdisciplinary work is particularly welcome. Please submit your proposal, including the title of your manuscript, an abstract (up to 300 words), and an author’s biography (up to 100 words) to all editors. The abstract should include the research question and purpose, the approach and main ideas, and results. No figures, tables, footnotes, or endnotes should be included in the abstract. Articles should not exceed 8,000 words in length including footnotes and references (reference list or bibliography).
Deadlines
April 30, 2022: Submission of the proposals to editors
May 7, 2022: Notification of accepted proposals
September 1, 2022: Receipt of final chapters for peer-review
September 14, 2022: Revised chapters re-submitted to editors
November, 2022: Approved chapters submitted for publishing
Editors
Georgi Parpulov (Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities), georgi.parpulov@mail.uni-goettingen.de
Antoaneta Krastanova A. Granberg (University of Gothenburg), antoaneta.granberg@sprak.gu.se
Andrea Radošević (Old Church Slavonic Institute, Zagreb), aradosevic@stin.hr
Please circulate this call for papers among your colleagues and other potentially interested scholars.