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Title

Holy foolishness in Russia : new perspectives / edited by Priscilla Hunt & Svitlana Kobets.

Publication

• Bloomington, IN : Slavica Publishers, [2011]
• ©2011

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Additional Authors

• Ivanov, S. A. (Sergeĭ Arkadʹevich), 1956-
• Panchenko, A. M. (Aleksandr Mikhaĭlovich), 1937-2002.
• Hunt, Priscilla Hart
• Kobets, Svitlana, 1962-

Description

vi, 405 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"This richly illustrated volume’s innovative intersciplinary approaches and engagement with the newest scholarly literature presents a new basis for exploration of holy foolishness [iurodstvo] in Russia as a unique expression of national identity. Its articles elucidate the genesis, nature, and development of the foolishness in the medi[e]val period and its on-going significance as a broadly cultural and religious paradigm. Sweeping in its scope, this volume is poineering in several respects: addressing holy foolishness from its Byzantine origins to postmodern, contemporary Russia, it offers innovative explorations of hagiographical, historical, poetic, and liturgical apsects of writings about such seeminal holy fools as Andrew of Constantinople, Isaakii of Kiev Caves Monastery and Kseniia of St. Petersburg; the first English translation of A. M.Panchenko’s classic study of holy foolish phenomenology, 'Laughter as Spectacle'; and new discussions of miniatures accompanying the text of St. Andrew’s vita. Further, it addresses foundational moments in the institutionalization of holy foolishness: the Church calendar commemorations of holy fools inherited from Byzantium; the first Russian holy foolish narrative; the genesis of the Intercession cult in the vita of Andrew the fool; the first holy foolish vita with verifiable facts about the protagonist’s life; the first canonized Russian female holy fool, Kseniia of St. Petersburg; and comprehensive treatments of holy foolery’s culturological significance for Leningrad underground poets, Soviet and post-Soviet performance art, and postmodern thinkers. The volume’s innovative interdisciplinary approaches and engagement with the newest scholarly literature assure its broad appeal to students and teachers of Russian culture, and of comparative, and religious studies, and offer a new basis for exploration of this spiritually and culturally complex phenomenon"--

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Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• Holy fools > Russia
• Christian saints > Russia
• Religion and culture > Russia
• Holy fools in art
• Christian hagiography
• Russia > Religious life and customs
• Russia > Civilization

Note

• Includes, on pages [41]-147, an English translation of A.M. Panchenko's classic study on holy fools, Smekh kak zrelishche (i.e. Laughter as spectacle).

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-405).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Holy foolishness as a key to Russian culture / Priscilla Hunt -- Lice in the iron cap : holy foolishness in perspective / Svitlana Kobets -- Laughter as spectacle: Holy foolishness in old Russia ; Holy foolishness as spectacle ; Holy foolishness as social protest / A.M. Panchenko ; translated by Priscilla Hunt, Svitlana Kobets, and Bethany Braley -- The fool and the king : the vita of Andrew of Constantinople and Russian urban holy foolishness / Priscilla Hunt --The absence of holy fools from the medieval Bulgarian calendars / Cynthia M. Vakareliyska -- Isaakii of the Kiev Caves Monastery : an ascetic feigning madness or a madman-turned-saint? / Svitlana Kobets -- Simeon of Iurievets and the hagiography of Old Russian holy fools / Sergey A. Ivanov -- The unmerry widow : the blessed Ksenia of Petersburg in hagiography and hymnography / Sergei Shtyrkov -- Illustrations to the vita of Andrew the Holy Fool of Constantinople in the tradition of Russian Old Believers / N. Iu. Bubnov -- An illuminated Vita of Andrew the Fool of Constantinople from the Hilandar Research Library at Ohio State University : preliminary notes on the manuscript and illuminations / Svitlana Kobets -- The pathos of holy foolishness in the Leningrad underground / Marcos Sabbatini -- Holy foolishness and postmodern culture / Per-Arne Bodin --
• From stylization to parody : the paradigm of holy foolishness in contemporary Russian performance art / Laura Piccolo.

ISBN

9780893573836

LCCN

^^2011045281

OCLC

• 759695963
• SCSB-11984386

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library