The Spiritual and Material culture of the Eastern people as reflected in the medieval written historical evidence (monumenta scripta). The 10th anniversary conference.

Abstract

The paper provides a summary of the 10th anniversary conference “Written Monuments of the East. Problems of Translation and Interpretation”, which took place at theInstituteofOriental Studiesof theRussianAcademyof Sciences (October 12–14, 2020). The participants, came from academic and educational institutions inMoscow,St. Petersburg,Makhachkala,Ufa, Elista,Irkutsk, andBaku(RepublicofAzerbaijan). They gave talks on the study of literary sources both written and oral, history (chronicles), inscriptions (epigraphy) as well as other genres and types of texts (“belles-letres”, documents, philosophy, etc.). All the participants had in common special attention to the original source/s, their historic and literary place, the traces of the spiritual and material aspects of life in the countries of the East as reflected there. The meeting was held in a remote format, which made it possible to significantly expand its audience.