Vizantiĭskoe i︠u︡rodstvo /
Ivanov, Sergeĭ Arkadʹevich.
Moskva : "Mezhdunarodnye otnoshenii︠a︡",
1994.
"A holy fool is a person who acts like a madman but is viewed by the medieval public as a normal person feigning insanity for ascetic or moralistic purposes. Only Orthodox Christianity recognized yurodivy as a type of saint and only two languages have a special word for a holy fool: Russian yurodivy and Greek salos." -- English summary, p. 225.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 192-[220]) and indexes.
Holy fools
Holy fools
Asceticism