Between Zoroastrian Mytho-History and Islamic Hagiography: Trajectories of Literary Exchange

The paper presents a comparative analysis of the Pahlavi “Story of Jōišt ī Friyān”, comparing it with three other tales, which span several hundred years and belong to several cultural traditions. By isolating structural and content-related features from the narrative core of these tales and setting them into relation with each other, the present author attempts to answer the following questions. Are there meaningful parallels between these four tales, which would suggest literary borrowing? And, if there are, would it be possible to identify one of them as the primary source of the others? The study is intended to contribute to our understanding of the process of literary exchange between Zoroastrians and Muslims in early Mediaeval Iran.

E. A. Baratynsky’s Unpublished Letter to A. I. Turgenev (Towards the History of a Literary Relationship)

The article focuses on the history of the literary exchange between E. A. Baratynsky and A. I. Turgenev, demonstrating their standings in the literary fi eld of the 1820s — the first half of the 1830s. Analyzing an unpublished letter by Baratynsky, the author offers a detailed reconstruction of the episode where the poet managed to present to Turgenev a pre-print copy of his Collected Poems (Stikhotvoreniia, 1835), and thus clarifi es the publication history of this collection.

After Regensburg

This chapter sets out the ongoing debates over justification in the aftermath of Article 5. From 1541 to 1543 Bucer engaged in a literary controversy over the article with Eck and Pighius. There followed the controversy surrounding the attempted Cologne Reformation, in which Bucer (and to a lesser extent Melanchthon) engaged in a literary exchange with Gropper especially. This involved disputes about the events surrounding Article 5, as well as the theological issues arising from it, such as twofold righteousness and imputed righteousness. Gropper also had to respond to criticisms from the Leuven theology faculty. Gropper continued to hold the ideas he had embraced at Regensburg in the final months of his life. There was a second colloquy of Regensburg, in 1546, also involving Bucer, which involved discussion of Article 5. Finally, the Tridentine Decree on Justification rejected the ideas of twofold righteousness and imputed righteousness.