Christianity and the Eastern Slavs: Vol. I
Subtitle: Slavic Cultures in the Middle Ages (Christianity and the Eastern Slavs)
Contributors: Boris Gasparov (Editor); Olga Raevsky-Hughes (Editor)
Series: California Slavic Studies, Volume 16
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: September 29, 1993
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780520079458
Subjects: Christianity; Ethnic studies; European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); History of specific racial & ethnic groups; Orthodox Eastern Church; Europe - Former Soviet Republics; Eastern Christian Churches; Medieval Church (476-1517); Slavic countries; Religion - Church History; Millennium of Christianity in Kievan Rus, 988-1988; History: World; Eastern Europe; Russia; Christianity - History - General; History / General; Slavs, Eastern; Church history; Civilization; Congresses; Kievan Rus; Russia (Federation)
Description: xi, 374 p. ; 24 cm.
Notes: Based on papers delivered at two international conferences held in May 1988 at the University of California--Berkeley and the Keenan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies to commemorate the millennium of the Christianization of Kievan Rus.

English and Russian; summaries in English.
Table of contents: class: section
title: Contents … vii; class: section
title: Acknowledgments … ix; class: section
title: Abbreviations … xi; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: Introduction; class: section
title: Boris Gasparov … 1; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: I. HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY:; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: Universal Witness and Local Identity in Russian Orthodoxy (988-1988); class: section
title: †John Meyendorff … 11; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: Крещение Руси: мировоззренческие и эстетические аспекты; class: section
title: Aleksandr Panchenko … 30; class: section
title: Summary … 41; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: Christianity before Christianization: Christians and Christian Activity in Pre-988 Rus’; class: section
title: Henrik Birnbaum … 42; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: The Spirituality of the Early Kievan Caves Monastery; class: section
title: Fairy von Lilienfeld … 63; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: When Was Olga Canonized?; class: section
title: †John Fennell	… 77; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: Why Did the Metropolitan Move from Kiev to Vladimir in the Thirteenth Century?; class: section
title: Donald Ostrowski … 83; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: The Origins of the Muscovite Ecclesiastical Claims to the Kievan Inheritance (Early Fourteenth Century to 1458/1461); class: section
title: Jaroslaw Pelenski … 102; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: Religion and Identity in the Carpathians:  East Christians in Poland and Czechoslovakia; class: section
title: Paul Robert Magosci … 116; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: II. CHURCH SLAVIC AND THE MEDIEVAL LITERARY TRADITION:; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: ([Church] Slavonic) Writing in Kievan Rus’; class: section
title: Dean S. Worth …141; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: On the Place of the Cyrillo-Methodian Tradition in Epiphanius’s Life of Saint Stephen of Perm; class: section
title: Harvey Goldblatt … 154; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
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; class: section
title: Francis J. Thomson … 179; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: Церковнославянизмы в украинском языке; class: section
title: Pavel Sigalov … 215; class: section
title: Summary … 238; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: III. CHRISTIANITY AND MEDIEVAL CULTURAL PARADIGMS:; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: Солярно-лунарная символика в облике русского храма; class: section
title: Boris Uspenskii … 241; class: section
title: Summary … 251; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: The Notion of “Uncorrupted Relics” in Early Russian Culture; class: section
title: Gail Lenhoff … 252; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: Justice in Avvakum’s Fifth Petition to Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich; class: section
title: Priscilla Hunt … 276; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: Традиционность и уникальность сочинений протопопа Аввакума в свете традиции Третьего Рима; class: section
title: Maria Pliukhanova … 297; class: section
title: Summary … 327; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: The Evolution of Church Music in Belorussia; class: section
title: Guy Picarda … 328; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: Notes on the Contributors … 357; class: section
title: Index … 361