Author(s): Priscilla Hunt, Svitlana Kobets (eds)
Publisher: Slavica Publishers
Year: 2011
Language: English
Pages: 447
City: Bloomington
Tags: cultural history Orthodoxy religion in Russia Christian saints hagiography
Priscilla Hunt
Holy Foolishness as a Key to Russian Culture
Svitlana Kobets
Lice in the Iron Cap: Holy Foolishness in Perspective
A.M.Panchenko
Laughter as Spectacle:
1. Holy Foolishness in Old Russia
2. Holy Foolishness as Spectacle
3. Holy Foolishness as Social Protest
Priscilla Hunt
The Fool and the King: The "Vita of Andrew of Constantinople" and Russian Urban Holy Foolishness
Cynthia M. Vakareliyska
The Absence of Holy Fools from Medieval Bulgarian Calendars
Svitlana Kobets
Isaakii of the Kiev Caves Monastery: An Ascetic Feigning Madness or a Madman-Turned-Saint?
Sergey A. Ivanov
Simon of Iurievets and the Hagiography of Old Russian Holy Fools
Sergei Shtyrkov
The Unmerry Widow: The Blessed Kseniia of Petersburg in Hagiography and Hymnography
N.Iu.Bubnov
Illustrations to the "Vita of Andrew the Holy Fool of Constantinople" in the Tradition of Russian Old Believers
Svitlana Kobets
An Illuminated "Vita of Andrew the Fool of Constantinople" from the Hilandar Research Library at Ohio State University: Preliminary Notes on the Manuscript and Illuminations
Marco Sabbatini
The Pathos of Holy Foolishness in the Leningrad Underground
Per-Arne Bodin
Holy Foolishness in Postmodern Culture
Laura Piccolo
From Stylization to Parody: The Paradigm of Holy Foolishness in Contemporary Russian Performance Art
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