Byzantine hermeneutics and pedagogy in the Russian north : monks and masters at the Kirillo-Belozerskii Monastery, 1397-1501 /
The Kirillov Monastery at White Lake in the far north of the Muscovite state was home to the greatest library, and perhaps the only secondary school, in all of medieval Russia. This volume reconstructs the educational activities of the spiritual fathers and heretofore unknown teachers of that monast...
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 2007. |
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |
| Summary: | The Kirillov Monastery at White Lake in the far north of the Muscovite state was home to the greatest library, and perhaps the only secondary school, in all of medieval Russia. This volume reconstructs the educational activities of the spiritual fathers and heretofore unknown teachers of that monastery. Drawing on extensive archival research, published records, and scholarship from a range of fields, Robert Romanchuk demonstrates how different habits of reading and interpretation at the monastery answered to different social priorities. He argues that 'spiritual' and 'worldly' studies were bound to the monastery's two main forms of social organization, semi-hermitic and communal. Further, Romanchuk contextualizes such innovative phenomena as the editing work of the monk Efrosin and the monastery's strikingly sophisticated library catalogue against the development of learning at Kirillov itself in the fifteenth century, moving the discussion of medieval Russian book culture in a new direction. The first micro-historical 'ethnology of reading' in the Early Slavic field, Byzantine Hermeneutics and Pedagogy in the Russian North will prove fascinating to western medievalists, Byzantinists, Slavists, and book historians. The first micro-historical 'ethnology of reading' in the Early Slavic field, Byzantine Hermeneutics and Pedagogy in the Russian North will prove fascinating to western medievalists, Byzantinists, Slavists, and book historians. |
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| Item Description: | Print version record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 452 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-405) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781442684102 1442684100 |
| Author Notes: | Robert Romanchuk is an associate professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Lingustics at Florida State University. |