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Byzantium - Rus - Russia - Studies in the Translation of Christian Culture (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Byzantium - Rus - Russia - Studies in the Translation of Christian Culture (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Variorum Collected Studies
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The Christian culture of Rus (the medieval precursor of modern
Russia, Ukraine and Belarus) is sometimes presented either as a
reflection of an indigenous spirituality wrapped in borrowed
(Byzantine) forms or, by contrast, as merely a provincial version
of its Byzantine original. The essays in this volume start from the
premise that neither view is adequate. The history of culture -
even of a self-consciously imitative culture - involves a continual
process of inevitable 'mistranslation', as the imported models are
reshaped and reinterpreted according to local resources,
circumstances and preconceptions. These essays explore aspects of
the 'translation of culture' on several levels: from the semantic
processes of the actual translation of written texts from Greek
into Slavonic, through to larger issues of ideology and identity.
They consider both the initial stages of such 'translation' (from
Byzantium to Rus) and some of the subsequent 'retranslations' of
the Byzantine heritage in the culture of Rus and - eventually - of
Russia.
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