Christianity and the Eastern Slavs, V. I
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Berkeley
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780520079458
Description: English and Russian; summaries in English.
Based on papers delivered at two international conferences held in May 1988 at the University of California--Berkeley and the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies to commemorate the millennium of the Christianization of Kievan Rus'.
Table of contents: title: Contents … vii; title: Acknowledgments … ix; title: Abbreviations … xi; title: ◦; title: Introduction; title: Boris Gasparov … 1; title: ◦; title: I. HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY:; title: ◦; title: Universal Witness and Local Identity in Russian Orthodoxy (988-1988); title: †John Meyendorff … 11; title: ◦; title: Крещение Руси: мировоззренческие и эстетические аспекты; title: Aleksandr Panchenko … 30; title: Summary … 41; title: ◦; title: Christianity before Christianization: Christians and Christian Activity in Pre-988 Rus’; title: Henrik Birnbaum … 42; title: ◦; title: The Spirituality of the Early Kievan Caves Monastery; title: Fairy von Lilienfeld … 63; title: ◦; title: When Was Olga Canonized?; title: †John Fennell	… 77; title: ◦; title: Why Did the Metropolitan Move from Kiev to Vladimir in the Thirteenth Century?; title: Donald Ostrowski … 83; title: ◦; title: The Origins of the Muscovite Ecclesiastical Claims to the Kievan Inheritance (Early Fourteenth Century to 1458/1461); title: Jaroslaw Pelenski … 102; title: ◦; title: Religion and Identity in the Carpathians:  East Christians in Poland and Czechoslovakia; title: Paul Robert Magosci … 116; title: ◦; title: II. CHURCH SLAVIC AND THE MEDIEVAL LITERARY TRADITION:; title: ◦; title: ([Church] Slavonic) Writing in Kievan Rus’; title: Dean S. Worth … 141; title: ◦; title: On the Place of the Cyrillo-Methodian Tradition in Epiphanius’s Life of Saint Stephen of Perm; title: Harvey Goldblatt … 154; title: ◦; title: The Corpus of Slavonic Translations Available in Muscovy: The Cause of Old Russia’s Intellectual Silence and a Contributory Factor to Muscovite Cultural Autarky; title: Francis J. Thomson … 179; title: ◦; title: Церковнославянизмы в украинском языке; title: Pavel Sigalov … 215; title: Summary … 238; title: ◦; title: III. CHRISTIANITY AND MEDIEVAL CULTURAL PARADIGMS:; title: ◦; title: Солярно-лунарная символика в облике русского храма; title: Boris Uspenskii … 241; title: Summary … 251; title: ◦; title: The Notion of “Uncorrupted Relics” in Early Russian Culture; title: Gail Lenhoff … 252; title: ◦; title: Justice in Avvakum’s Fifth Petition to Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich; title: Priscilla Hunt … 276; title: ◦; title: Традиционность и уникальность сочинений протопопа Аввакума в свете традиции Третьего Рима; title: Maria Pliukhanova … 297; title: Summary … 327; title: ◦; title: The Evolution of Church Music in Belorussia; title: Guy Picarda … 328; title: ◦; title: Notes on the Contributors … 357; title: Index … 361