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The Liturgical Past in Byzantium and Early Rus (Hardcover)
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The Liturgical Past in Byzantium and Early Rus (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
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The chroniclers of medieval Rus were monks, who celebrated the
divine services of the Byzantine church throughout every day. This
study is the first to analyze how these rituals shaped their
writing of the Rus Primary Chronicle, the first written history of
the East Slavs. During the eleventh century, chroniclers in Kiev
learned about the conversion of the Roman Empire by celebrating a
series of distinctively Byzantine liturgical feasts. When the
services concluded, and the clerics sought to compose a native
history for their own people, they instinctively drew on the sacred
stories that they sang at church. The result was a myth of
Christian origins for Rus - a myth promulgated even today by the
Russian government - which reproduced the Christian origins myth of
the Byzantine Empire. The book uncovers this ritual subtext and
reconstructs the intricate web of liturgical narratives that
underlie this foundational text of pre-modern Slavic civilization.
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