Holy Fools in Byzantium and BeyondOUP Oxford, 2006 M04 6 - 492 pages There are saints in Orthodox Christian culture who overturn the conventional concept of sainthood. Their conduct may be unruly and salacious, they may blaspheme and even kill - yet, mysteriously, those around them treat them with even more reverence. Such saints are called 'holy fools'. In this pioneering study Sergey A. Ivanov examines the phenomenon of holy foolery from a cultural standpoint. He identifies its prerequisites and its development in religious thought, and traces the emergence of the first hagiographic texts describing these paradoxical saints. He describes the beginnings of holy foolery in Egyptian monasteries of the fifth century, followed by its high point in the cities of Byzantium, with an eventual decline in the twelfth to fourteenth centuries. He also compares the important Russian tradition of holy fools, which in some form has survived to this day. |
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Sergey A. Ivanov. OXFORD STUDIES IN BYZANTIUM 10+ Holy Fools in Byzantium and Beyond SERGEY A. IVANOV ws Tot Editorial Board JAMES HOWARD-JOHNSTON ELIZABETH JEFFREYS PAUL MAGDALINO HENRY MAGUIRE. Front Cover.
Sergey A. Ivanov. OXFORD STUDIES IN BYZANTIUM 10+ Holy Fools in Byzantium and Beyond SERGEY A. IVANOV ws Tot Editorial Board JAMES HOWARD-JOHNSTON ELIZABETH JEFFREYS PAUL MAGDALINO HENRY MAGUIRE. Front Cover.
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Sergey A. Ivanov. Editorial Board JAMES HOWARD-JOHNSTON ELIZABETH JEFFREYS PAUL MAGDALINO HENRY MAGUIRE CYRIL MANGO MARLIA MANGO IHOR SEVCENKO JONATHAN SHEPARD JEAN-PIERRE SODINI Oxford Studies in Byzantium consists of scholarly monographs ...
Sergey A. Ivanov. Editorial Board JAMES HOWARD-JOHNSTON ELIZABETH JEFFREYS PAUL MAGDALINO HENRY MAGUIRE CYRIL MANGO MARLIA MANGO IHOR SEVCENKO JONATHAN SHEPARD JEAN-PIERRE SODINI Oxford Studies in Byzantium consists of scholarly monographs ...
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... Paul, discussing reason and foolishness, proceeds from Greek axioms about 'common sense'. In the earliest Christian texts, therefore, even praise for foolishness entails a tacit acknowledgement of the primacy of reason. It is in this ...
... Paul, discussing reason and foolishness, proceeds from Greek axioms about 'common sense'. In the earliest Christian texts, therefore, even praise for foolishness entails a tacit acknowledgement of the primacy of reason. It is in this ...
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... Paul's first Epistle to the Corinthians: Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? ... For the Jews ... Paul himself knew nothing of holy foolery as it was to become. Moreover, the phrase that was later applied to holy fools ...
... Paul's first Epistle to the Corinthians: Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? ... For the Jews ... Paul himself knew nothing of holy foolery as it was to become. Moreover, the phrase that was later applied to holy fools ...
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... Paul's commandments: see: Nicholas of Methone, Refutation of Proclus' Elements of Theology, ed. A. D. Angelou (Athens, 1984), Prooem. 40–5; Michael Psellos, Theologica, ed. P. Gautier, i (Leipzig, 1989), 8a.48–55, etc. 16 Basil of ...
... Paul's commandments: see: Nicholas of Methone, Refutation of Proclus' Elements of Theology, ed. A. D. Angelou (Athens, 1984), Prooem. 40–5; Michael Psellos, Theologica, ed. P. Gautier, i (Leipzig, 1989), 8a.48–55, etc. 16 Basil of ...
Contents
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2 Insane Saints | 49 |
3 Lechers and Beggars | 66 |
4 Holy Scandal | 104 |
5 The Second Edition of Holy Foolery | 139 |
6 The New Theologians | 174 |
7 Balancing at the Edge | 195 |
10 The Iurodivyi and the Tsar | 285 |
11 Iurodstvo in an Age of Transition | 311 |
12 Iurodstvo Meets Modernity | 345 |
13 The Eastern Periphery | 359 |
14 The Western Periphery | 374 |
Conclusion | 399 |
Bibliography | 415 |
Index | 457 |
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