In Christo närrisches Russland : zur Deutung und Bedeutung des "jurodstvo" im kulturellen und sozialen Kontext des Zarenreiches /
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Author / Creator: | Münch, Christian, author. |
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Imprint: | Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, [2017] ©2017 |
Description: | 569 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
Language: | German |
Series: | Forschungen zur Kirchen- und Dogmengeschichte, 0532-2154 ; Band 109 Forschungen zur Kirchen- und Dogmengeschichte ; Band 109. |
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Format: | Dissertations Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11369199 |
Summary: | Yurodstvo (holy foolishness) is widely regarded as a "Russian national phenomenon". This Christian ascetic paradigm, though present in Eastern monastic literature since the fifth century, has gained wider cultural significance only in Russia. Christian Munch chronicles the interpretations of yurodstvo and the multiple religious, social and cultural significance the practice received in Tsarist Russia (1547-1917). Its main temporal focus is on the Imperial Period (18th-19th centuries), when yurodivye (holy fools) were persecuted by church and state, before they were placed in modern literature and theology by poets and thinkers who took notice of them. Based on an extensive corpus of texts ranging from medieval hagiography through legal decrees to modern religious literature and fiction, the study presents yurodstvo comprehensively and in all its facets. |
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Physical Description: | 569 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [515]-544) and indexes. |
ISBN: | 9783525564271 3525564279 |
ISSN: | 0532-2154 ; |