Call for Papers Slavic Written Culture Adeptus 2026

Call for Papers Slavic Written Culture Adeptus 2026

 

We focus in this 23rd issue of Adeptus (2026) to the Slavic written culture, Saint Cyril Apostle of the Slavs prepared Glagolitic script to write Slavic language Old Church Slavonic used in the Thessalonica Area. The oldest monuments written in OCS are tightly connected to Christianisation mission of Cyril and Methodius and are dated to 9th century. Glagolitic script was used in the missionary area of Apostles of the Slavs and their pupils. Later in unknown circumstances the Cyrillic script emerged. It was used already in the 9th century. Later it became widespread among Southern and Eastern Slavs. Thanks to this Slavic written culture is over 1000 years old. Not all Slavs adopted Cyrillic as a script for writing their language. Some Slavs, especially Western and Southern Slavs later adopted Latin alphabet for writing their languages. They introduced various methods of adaptation it to the needs of Slavic language. A crucial role in the development of Slavic written culture among Western and partially by Southern Slavs played Czech Hussites. In Czech lands in pre-Hussite time people used Latin alphabet using a significant number of digraphs to write various consonants. At the turn of 14th and 15th centuries people started to use a reformed alphabet. This new script used dots above some of the letters that replaced digraphs. Later they started to use carons above certain letters. This innovation and adjustment of Latin script to write Czech language were wildly adopted among Western Slavs and by some of the Southern Slavs. Poles didn't adopt the Czech idea and till today still frequent use digraphs and trigraphs to write in Polish.

 

Writing is a great gift to the entire Slavic world. Western Slavs used Latin script and Latin before using Latin to write their own language. They used Latin to develop their written culture, even though it was expressed in a non-Slavic language. Thanks to this innovation, the Slavs ware able to achieve a new, previously unattainable level of culture and development.

 

This 23th. number of Adeptus shall contain articles from young scholars devoted to broadly understood Slavic written culture from the oldest to the present day. We invite you to send texts about i.e., literary studies, analysis of legal language, plain language, various dialects, belles-lettres, the language of the internet, relations with AI. This volume of Adeptus remains open and interdisciplinary. The proposed thematic issues are illustrative and do not exhaust the range of possible topics related to Slavic written culture. We accept articles in English or Polish.

 

We kindly invite submissions by 15 April 2026 (Wednesday) via online journal platform of Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

The invitation formulated on the Adeptus website remains in effect, namely:

'The journal encourages the submission of research articles touching on a wide range of topics consistent with Adeptus’ aims and seeking to generate new ideas and inspire readers across different regional and theoretical fields. Submissions from all disciplines and perspectives are welcome.'

 

Scientific editors

Wojciech Jasiński

Marcin Kurdyka

Adrien Quéret-Podesta