Master of Arts (Slavic Languages and Literatures), PhD student, University of Southern California, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, ORCID: 0000–0002–5842–3087
The following volume is dedicated to Aleksandr Evgenievich Makhov (1959–2021) and contains research materials, memoirs, and papers, which should be read as a tribute to his academic work. The scholarly materials which are included in the reviewed book not only reflect the broad spectrum of Aleksander Makhov’s research interests (the history of emblems, medieval symbolism, romanticism, poetics), but also evoke a discussion with the one to whom the volume is dedicated. An important role in this collection of texts is played by the materials about Aleksander Makhov himself: about the bestiary conferences he hosted, his monographs and publications, his methodological approach to scholarship, the way he chose topics for his research. The articles are combined in the book quite originally into sections according to their themes, not following the traditional principle of a strict division between “memoirs” and “scholarly papers”. Such an informality also opens a discussion on general principles underlying the creation of volumes dedicated to one’s intellectual heritage and life’s work.
Makhov; emblematics; romanticism; Middle Ages; bestiary