Old Russian Inscriptions on the Church Gates: Semantics, Pragmatics, Language

Student: Lashchuk Svetlana

Supervisor: Marina A. Bobrik-Froemke

Educational Programme: Philology (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2018

Till nowadays the inscriptions on the church gates have always been considered by scholars only as a secondary source of information about the dating of a monument, almost never as an independent research object. This paper attempts to find a relevant approach to the study of this particular kind of epigraphic evidence, examining the four preserved Old-Russian gates from the philological point of view. In this paper, not only the inscriptions of these gates are republished together as a united corpus and provided with a detailed philological commentary, but also a range of generalizing observations about the typology of the inscriptions and their structural and semantic particularities is done, preparing a methodological base for the future research on the topic.

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