Holy fools in Byzantium and beyond
The image of St Basil's Cathedral in Moscow's Red Square is a familiar Russian landmark. Saints such as Basil overturn the conventional concept of sainthood - what is saintly about them? This book aims to solve the mystery by exploring the figure of the holy fool in Byzantium and in later Russian history.
XI, 479 p. 23 cm.
9780199272518, 0199272514
433467807
Introduction ; 1. The Precursors and Emergence of Holy Foolery ; 2. Early Holy Foolery ; 3. The Golden Age of Holy Foolery ; 4. The Decline of Byzantine Holy Foolery ; 5. Holy Foolery's Eastern Periphery ; 6. Holy Foolery's Western Periphery ; 7. Old Russian Iurodstvo ; 8. The Iurodivyi and the Tsar ; 9. Iurodstvo in Transition ; 10. Iurodstvo Meets Modernity
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