{"id":5116,"date":"2023-11-17T20:12:53","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T20:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=5116"},"modified":"2023-11-17T20:12:56","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T20:12:56","slug":"english-professor-uncovers-new-information-regarding-medieval-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2023\/11\/17\/english-professor-uncovers-new-information-regarding-medieval-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"English professor uncovers new information regarding Medieval Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TROY, Ala. (<a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TROJANVISION<\/a>) \u2014 A Troy professor is detailing the work behind her most recent publication \u201cTexting\u201d in Medieval Russia: Insights from the Birch Bark Letters. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The documents used for her project were recently made available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The digital corporate made it accessible, made it available and accessible for researchers in countries and all over the world to use this special data,&#8221; said author and English professor, Dr. Tatyana Slobodchikoff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Throughout the discussion, Slobodchikoff explained the importance of birch bark during the medieval age. The material was used to write love letters, tell stories, and share news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I read and analyzed all of the birch bark letters,&#8221; Slobodchikoff explained. &#8221; &#8220;I worked with them just mainly myself, deciphering them, trying to understand them and to classify them, counting them and so on.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Slobodchikoff conducted research and worked to understand the texts in medieval Russia, she also faced challenges along the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Sometimes I would not be able to see clear tracks, or clear path, in the data,&#8221; Slobodchikoff  told TrojanVision. &#8220;Then I said to myself that it&#8217;s okay; that&#8217;s how people spoke. There were certain trends that I was able to identify in the data, but they were not very clear cut, and I had to be okay with that.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To learn more about birch bark letters, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancient-origins.net\/news-history-archaeology\/birch-bark-letters-001806\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TROY, Ala. (TROJANVISION) \u2014 A Troy professor is detailing the work behind her most recent publication \u201cTexting\u201d in Medieval Russia: Insights from the Birch Bark Letters. <\/p>\n<p>The documents used for her project were recently made available.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The digital corporate made it accessible, made it available and accessible for researchers in countries and all over&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2023\/11\/17\/english-professor-uncovers-new-information-regarding-medieval-russia\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":5118,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1127],"tags":[1300,1299,1302],"topics":[5,17],"class_list":["post-5116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-birch-bark-letters","tag-dr-tatyana-slobodchikoff","tag-research","topics-college-of-communication-and-fine-arts","topics-troy-campus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5116"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=5116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}