TY - JOUR

T1 - ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND TEXTUAL EVIDENCE INTERACTING: REALIA OF PETERHOF IN NOVGOROD

AU - Squires, Catherine R.

N1 - Публикация для корректировки.

PY - 2022

Y1 - 2022

N2 - The article focuses on the problem of checking linguistic facts for subsequent use in archeological studies. A reliable comparison of archeological data to medieval textual evidence depends on the soundness of the linguistic interpretation of the latter. The paper proposes a two-step method of clarifying technical terminology of waste disposal in 15th–16th century Hanseatic towns by first checking it against a chronologically similar case from another region (15th century Schaff hausen), where both language data and the matching realia are known. The results are then in a second step applied to archaeological finds revealed in Lübeck in 2006– 2009. On this basis interpretations of further contexts from Lübeck documents – the book of administrative records of the magistrate (Liber Memorialis) for 1318–early 16th century and a letter from 1453 – are at-tempted. A semantic, grammatical and syntactic analysis of the sources from Lübeck yields additional information which allows a correct reading of a historic document pertaining to the Hanseatic Peterhof in Novgorod, which in turn will be useful in working with prospective archaeological finds in Veliky Novgorod.

AB - The article focuses on the problem of checking linguistic facts for subsequent use in archeological studies. A reliable comparison of archeological data to medieval textual evidence depends on the soundness of the linguistic interpretation of the latter. The paper proposes a two-step method of clarifying technical terminology of waste disposal in 15th–16th century Hanseatic towns by first checking it against a chronologically similar case from another region (15th century Schaff hausen), where both language data and the matching realia are known. The results are then in a second step applied to archaeological finds revealed in Lübeck in 2006– 2009. On this basis interpretations of further contexts from Lübeck documents – the book of administrative records of the magistrate (Liber Memorialis) for 1318–early 16th century and a letter from 1453 – are at-tempted. A semantic, grammatical and syntactic analysis of the sources from Lübeck yields additional information which allows a correct reading of a historic document pertaining to the Hanseatic Peterhof in Novgorod, which in turn will be useful in working with prospective archaeological finds in Veliky Novgorod.

KW - 15th–16th century Low German

KW - archaeology of medieval towns

KW - the Hanseatic League and Novgorod

KW - waste disposal terminol-ogy

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UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/881b28fa-0d9a-39f7-9096-d611c836c1ae/

U2 - 10.31857/S0869606322020155

DO - 10.31857/S0869606322020155

M3 - Article

VL - 2022

SP - 134

EP - 141

JO - Российская археология

JF - Российская археология

SN - 0869-6063

IS - 2

ER -