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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... editions on the history, literature, thought, and material culture of the Byzantine world. Basil II and the Governance of Empire Catherine Holmes in Byzantium and Beyond SERGEY A. IVANOV Translated by Simon OXFORD STUDIES IN BYZANTIUM.
... editions on the history, literature, thought, and material culture of the Byzantine world. Basil II and the Governance of Empire Catherine Holmes in Byzantium and Beyond SERGEY A. IVANOV Translated by Simon OXFORD STUDIES IN BYZANTIUM.
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Sergey A. Ivanov. in Byzantium and Beyond SERGEY A. IVANOV Translated by Simon Franklin 1 3 Great Clarendon Street, Oxford ox2 6dp Oxford University Press Holy Fools.
Sergey A. Ivanov. in Byzantium and Beyond SERGEY A. IVANOV Translated by Simon Franklin 1 3 Great Clarendon Street, Oxford ox2 6dp Oxford University Press Holy Fools.
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... translated as 'buffoonery', 'foolery', or 'crazy streak' (Dostoevskii, Karamazov, 51, 259, 29). The secular meaning evolved as late as the nineteenth century and is derived from the religious meaning. vi Preface to the English Edition.
... translated as 'buffoonery', 'foolery', or 'crazy streak' (Dostoevskii, Karamazov, 51, 259, 29). The secular meaning evolved as late as the nineteenth century and is derived from the religious meaning. vi Preface to the English Edition.
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... translated into European languages. This has consequences for Chapter 13, which is bound to be somewhat amateurish and where I cannot claim that the issues have been fully addressed. The Russian variant of holy foolery will be surveyed ...
... translated into European languages. This has consequences for Chapter 13, which is bound to be somewhat amateurish and where I cannot claim that the issues have been fully addressed. The Russian variant of holy foolery will be surveyed ...
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... translation of the vita of Symeon of Emesa, is the word salos rendered either as salosa or simply as salos, or sale in the vocative case?56 This means that the Syriac translator believed this was a Greek word. At all events, it is clear ...
... translation of the vita of Symeon of Emesa, is the word salos rendered either as salosa or simply as salos, or sale in the vocative case?56 This means that the Syriac translator believed this was a Greek word. At all events, it is clear ...
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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