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Ivanov, S.A Blazhennye Pokhaby
Kul`turnaia Istoriia Iurodstva
[ Blessed fools : Cultural history of "God Fools"]
Moscow: Iazyki Slavianskikh Kul`tur, 2005
448 p. [4 ill.]
Serie: Studia Historica
Hardcover. 14 x 21 cm
ISBN: 5955101055
ISSN: 1727-9968
Language: RussianWho is Vasillii Blazhennyi, and why is one of the best known Russian churches named in his honor? This book is about an old and very special type of holiness in the Orthodox religion, "iurodstvo" (holy foolishness). Sergei Ivanov (b. 1956), the author of many works on Byzantine-Slavic relations, Byzantine culture and hagiography, explores "iurodstvo" as a phenomenon in the frame of cultural anthropology: its cultural roots, types of "God`s fools", their geography and behavior, the rise and fall of this phenomenon. Bibliography, name index.
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