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Latin Certificates of Authenticity for Relics: History, Text, Translation
- Authors: Golikova M.S.1
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- Moscow State Linguistic University
- Issue: No 8(876) (2023)
- Pages: 130-137
- Section: Literary criticism
- URL: https://bakhtiniada.ru/2542-2197/article/view/350416
- ID: 350416
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Relic Certificates of Authenticity is a document containing information about a relic and confirming its authenticity. Such papers, traditionally drawn up in Latin, are a unique example of a mixture of the official style of the Latin language of the New Time, which was used in Western Europe in the field of office work, and Ecclesiastical Latin. The relevance of the topic is related to the importance of studying certificates both for translation into Russian, which is required to certify this document in order to verify the authenticity of the relics, and to obtain information about the saints and the cult of their veneration.
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Maria Sergeevna Golikova
Moscow State Linguistic University
Author for correspondence.
Email: golikofff@list.ru
PhD (Philosophy), Associate Professor at the Department of Classical Philology
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