Indychenko A. A. The Czech Literary Language Outside Its Ethnic Territory in the 15th-17th Centuries / ed. by K. V. Lifanov. Moscow: Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, 2024. 184 p.: Book review

The reviewed monograph analyzes Czech texts created in the 15th-17th centuries outside of the Czech ethnic territory, namely in Lesser Poland, Upper Silesia, and Western Slovakia, where the Czech language during this period functioned as a literary language, interacting in complex ways with local dialects and forming a corresponding written tradition. Using a unified methodology, the study analyzes the relationship of the language of these texts to the language of the Prague center of the corresponding period. Thus, the reviewed monograph implements a fundamentally new approach to the history of the Czech literary language, which functioned in the cultural-linguistic area of Slavia Latina as a supra-ethnic language.