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The Reception of Byzantine Culture in Mediaeval Russia (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The Reception of Byzantine Culture in Mediaeval Russia (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Variorum Collected Studies
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It is a truism that Russian culture is based upon the reception of
Byzantine culture. However, the question of what was in fact
received is the task that Professor Thomson has set in these
studies, by means of a detailed examination of the corpus of
translations. Down to the 17th century this corpus was essentially
made up of works required for the liturgy and the monastic life.
Few works of dogmatic theology and virtually no classical or
philosophical works were translated, neither was a knowledge of
Greek, which would have provided access to the originals,
widespread. The result was an unreasoning adherence to ritual
forms. Western ideas which began to penetrate into Muscovy in the
17th century were not absorbed by Russian culture but fundamentally
reshaped it, and the result led to a schism within the Church.
Russia today is Orthodox by religion, but Byzantine culture
disappeared with Byzantium. A major section of addenda takes into
account the advances in scholarship since the articles were first
published.
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