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- Description
- 1 online resource (vii, 405 pages) : illustrations (mostly color)
- Uniform Title
- Holy foolishness in Russia (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-405).
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Holy foolishness as a key to Russian culture / Svitlana Kobets -- Lice in the iron cap: holy foolishness in perspective / A. M. Panchenko -- Laughter as spectacle ; Holy foolishness in old Russia ; Holy foolishness as spectacle ; Holy foolishness as social protest / Priscilla Hunt -- The fool and the king: the vita of Andrew of Constantinople and Russian urban holy foolishness / Cynthia M. Vakareliyska -- Why there are so few holy fools in the medieval Bulgarian calendars of saints / Svitlana Kobets -- Isaakii of the Kiev Monastery: an ascetic feigning madness or a madman-turned-saint? / Sergey Ivanov -- Simeon of Iurievets and the hagiography of old Russian holy fools / Sergei Shtyrkov -- The unmerry widow: the blessed Ksenia of Petersburg in hagiography and hymnography / N. Iu. Bubnov -- The illustrations to the vita of Andrew of Constantinople in the tradition of Russian Old Believers / Svitlana Kobets -- Manuscript illustrations to the eighteenth-century vita of Andrew of Constantinople in the Khilandar Library / Marco Sabbatini -- The pathos of holy foolishness in Leningrad underground / Per-Arne Bodin -- Holy foolishness and postmodern culture / Laura Piccolo -- From stylization to parody: the paradigm of holy foolishness in contemporary Russian performance art.
- LCCN
- 2011045281
- OCLC
- ssj0000606419
- Title
Holy foolishness in Russia [electronic resource] : new perspectives / edited by Priscilla Hunt & Svitlana Kobets.
- Imprint
Bloomington, IN : Slavica Publishers, [2011]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-405).
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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- Added Author
Hunt, Priscilla Hart.
Kobets, Svitlana, 1962-