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Holy Foolishness in Russia: New Perspectives

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2011
Published by: Slavica Publishers
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Cover

Title Page, Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

pp. vii

Holy Foolishness as a Key to Russian Culture

pp. 1-14

Lice in the Iron Cap: Holy Foolishness in Perspective

pp. 15-40

Laughter as Spectacle

pp. 41-53

Holy Foolishness as Spectacle

pp. 54-98

Holy Foolishness as Social Protest

pp. 99-147

The Fool and the King: The Vita of Andrew of Constantinople and Russian Urban Holy Foolishness

pp. 149-224

The Absence of Holy Fools from Medieval Bulgarian Calendars

pp. 225-244

Isaakii of the Kiev Caves Monastery: An Ascetic Feigning Madness or a Madman-Turned-Saint?

pp. 245-268

Simon of lurievets and the Hagiography of Old Russian Holy Fools

pp. 269-280

The Unmerry Widow: The Blessed Kseniia of Petersburg in Hagiography and Hymnography

pp. 281-304

Illustrations to the Vita of Andrew the Holy Fool of Constantinople in the Tradition of Russian Old Believers

pp. 305-327

An Illuminated Vita of Andrew the Fool of Constantinople from the Hilandar Research Library at Ohio State University: Preliminary Notes on the Manuscript and Illuminations

pp. 329-336

The Pathos of Holy Foolishness in the Leningrad Underground

pp. 337-352

Holy Foolishness and Postmodern Culture

pp. 353-372

From Stylization to Parody: The Paradigm of Holy Foolishness (iurodstvo) in Contemporary Russian Performance Art

pp. 373-389

Image Plates

Selected Bibliography

pp. 391-405

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