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Holy Fools in Byzantium and Beyond (Hardcover)
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Holy Fools in Byzantium and Beyond (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Byzantium
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There are saints in Orthodox Christian culture who overturn the
conventional concept of sainthood. Their conduct may be unruly and
salacious, they may blaspheme and even kill - yet, mysteriously,
those around them treat them with even more reverence. Such saints
are called 'holy fools'. In this pioneering study Sergey A. Ivanov
examines the phenomenon of holy foolery from a cultural standpoint.
He identifies its prerequisites and its development in religious
thought, and traces the emergence of the first hagiographic texts
describing these paradoxical saints. He describes the beginnings of
holy foolery in Egyptian monasteries of the fifth century, followed
by its high point in the cities of Byzantium, with an eventual
decline in the twelfth to fourteenth centuries. He also compares
the important Russian tradition of holy fools, which in some form
has survived to this day.
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