George the New among Eastern Slavs

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Kaliganov, I.I

Georgii Novyi u Vostochnykh Slavian

[ George the New among Eastern Slavs]

Moscow: Indrik, 2000
799 p Images

Hardcover
ISBN: 5857591228
Language: Russian

This study is about the saint George the New, a martyr, who was burned by the Muslims in Sophia in 1515. It traces the dissemination of George`s cult among the Eastern Slavs. Most of documents used are published for the first time. The study is really a multidisciplinary one, it applies methods of several fields: archeographia, textology, history, history of arts and literature, etc. Also included are texts of Russian lives ("zhitia") of George the New, liturgical texts and songs. The work was awarded at the Metropolitan Makarii (Bulgakov) contest of 1997. Indices, list of illustrations.

Subjects

» Religion and Theology » History of the Russian Orthodox Church

» Social Sciences » Interdisciplinary Studies

» Literary Theory and Criticism / History of Literature » Spiritual Literature

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