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Author Romanchuk, Robert

Title Byzantine Hermeneutics and Pedagogy in the Russian North : Monks and Masters at the Kirillo-Belozerskii Monastery, 1397-1501
Edition 2nd ed
Published Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (471 pages)
Contents Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- PART ONE -- 1 'Where Is the Russian Peter Abelard?': Silence and Intellectual Awakening at a North Russian Monastery -- 2 The 'Artless Word' and the Artisan: Approaching Monastic Hermeneutics in Eastern Europe -- PART TWO -- 3 'Strangers to the World, Fixing Our Minds in Heaven': St Kirill's Laura as a Textual Community (1397-1435) -- 4 'The Lover of This Book': 'Philosophy' and Philology under Hegumen Trifon (1435-1448) -- Intermedium: The Schooling and Professionalization of Scribes, 1448-1470 -- 5 'The Best Thing of All Is One's Own Will': The Community of Scholars at Kirillov (1470-1501) -- Epilogue: Some Possibilities and Limits of 'Byzantine Humanism' -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of Manuscripts -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
Summary The first micro-historical 'ethnology of reading' in the Early Slavic field, Byzantine Hermeneutics and Pedagogy in the Russian North will prove fascinating to western medievalists, Byzantinists, Slavists, and book historians
Notes Print version record
Subject Kirillo-Belozerskiĭ monastyrʹ -- History -- 15th century
Orthodox Eastern Church -- Education -- Russia (Federation) -- Kirillov -- History -- 15th century
SUBJECT Kirillo-Belozerskiĭ monastyrʹ fast
Orthodox Eastern Church fast
Subject Hermeneutics -- Religious aspects.
Education
Hermeneutics -- Religious aspects
Russia (Federation) -- Kirillov
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781442684102
1442684100