Byzantine Hermeneutics and Pedagogy in the Russian North: Monks and Masters at the Kirillo-Belozerskii Monastery, 1397-1501 Contributor(s): Romanchuk, Robert (Author) |
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ISBN: 080209063X ISBN-13: 9780802090638 Publisher: University of Toronto Press OUR PRICE: $127.80 Product Type: Hardcover Published: December 2007 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - History - Religion | Christianity - Orthodox - Religion | Biblical Studies - Exegesis & Hermeneutics |
Dewey: 121.680 |
Physical Information: 1.39" H x 6.42" W x 9.3" (1.86 lbs) 368 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 15th Century - Religious Orientation - Christian - Cultural Region - Russia - Chronological Period - 16th Century - Theometrics - Orthodox |
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Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Romanchuk, Robert: - Robert Romanchuk is an associate professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Lingustics at Florida State University. |