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Vizantiĭskoe i͡urodstvo / S.A. Ivanov.
LIBRA BV5039.R9 I83 1994
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ivanov, S. A. (Sergeĭ Arkadʹevich), 1956-
- Language:
- English
- Russian
- Subjects (All):
- Holy fools--Byzantine Empire.
- Holy fools.
- Asceticism--Orthodox Eastern Church.
- Asceticism.
- Byzantine Empire.
- Physical Description:
- 234 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Moskva : "Mezhdunarodnye otnoshenii͡a", 1994.
- Notes:
- Summary in English entitled: Byzantine holy folly.
- "A holy fool is a person who acts like a madman but is viewed by the medieval public as a normal person feigning insanity for ascetic or moralistic purposes. Only Orthodox Christianity recognized yurodivy as a type of saint and only two languages have a special word for a holy fool: Russian yurodivy and Greek salos." -- English summary of: Byzantine holy folly, p. 225.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-[220]) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 5713307611
- OCLC:
- 32225499
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