Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Parppei, Kati.

Title "The oldest one in Russia" : the formation of the historiographical image of Valaam Monastery / by Kati Parppei
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011

Copies

Description 1 online resource (xiv, 299 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Russian history and culture ; v. 6
Russian history and culture ; v. 6.
Contents Premises of success -- Quest for the past -- "The oldest in Russia" -- ideas about the monastery's origins -- "The Holy pair": the founder cult of Sergei and German of Valaam -- "Spiritual heroes": saintly pantheon of Valaam -- "The dishonoured ones": encounters with the West
Summary Contributing, for instance, to the fields of nationality and borderland studies, this book offers a fascinating study of the process of "writing a worthy past" for the Russian Orthodox monastery of Valaam during the 18th and 19th centuries
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 282-293) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Valaamskiĭ monastyrʹ -- History
Valaamskiĭ monastyrʹ -- Historiography
Valaamskiĭ monastyrʹ -- Public opinion
SUBJECT Valaamskiĭ monastyrʹ fast
Subject Romanticism -- Russia -- History
Nationalism -- Russia -- History
Historiography -- Political aspects -- Russia -- History
Ideology -- Russia -- History
Public opinion -- Russia -- History
RELIGION -- Institutions & Organizations.
Historiography
Historiography -- Political aspects
Ideology
Nationalism
Public opinion
Romanticism
SUBJECT Russia (Federation) -- Church history -- 18th century
Russia (Federation) -- Church history -- 19th century
Subject Russia
Russia (Federation)
Genre/Form Church history
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004209534
9004209530
1283161419
9781283161411