Enigma in Rus and Medieval Slavic Cultures / / ed. by Ágnes Kriza.
Enigma in Rus and Medieval Slavic Cultures is a thematic essay volume to investigate the history and function of enigma in Orthodox Slavic cultures with a special focus on the cultural history of Rus and Muscovy. Its seventeen case studies across disciplinary boundaries analyze Slavic biblical and p...
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2024] ©2024 |
Year of Publication: | 2024 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Sense, Matter, and Medium : New Approaches to Medieval Literary and Material Culture ,
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XX, 388 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- List of Contributors
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction
- Translating Enigma
- 1 Enigma and the Enigmatic in Medieval Slavonic Biblical Manuscripts
- 2 Enigma, Mystery, and Parable as Key Words in the Miscellany of Simeon (the Izbornik of 1073)
- Mystery of the Rite
- 3 Slavonic Commentaries on the Liturgy: Symbols and Church Usage
- 4 The Gospel of Nicodemus and the Cult of St Longinus
- Canonical and Prohibited Secrets
- 5 The Enigma of the Night: Dream Interpretations in Medieval Slavonic Apocrypha
- 6 Occult and Esoteric Texts in Sixteenth-Century Russia: The Secret of Secrets and the Rafli
- 7 Riddles in the Apocryphal Conversation of the Three Hierarchs
- At the intersection of the Visual and the Verbal
- 8 Enigmas and the Enigmatic in Early Rus Epigraphy
- 9 Cryptography in medieval Rus from the Synchronistic and Diachronistic Point of View (Manuscripts of the Fourteenth–Fifteenth Centuries)
- 10 Visual Riddles and Spiritual Perception in Medieval Slavic Manuscripts
- Late Medieval Russian Visual Riddles
- 11 Verbal and Visual Riddles in Medieval Russian Iconography
- 12 The Literalist Mindset of Early Muscovite Painting
- 13 “You are a Priest Forever”: An Anti-Heretical Mnemonic Icon
- Decoding Medieval Enigmas
- 14 The Tsar’s Hidden Wisdom
- 15 Enigmatic Motifs in Medieval Russian Icons
- 16 The Sacralization of Canon Law in Rus (Thirteenth–Sixteenth Centuries)
- 17 The Sovereign’s Two Names (Potapii Maksimovich the Grandson of Matvei, or Vasilii Ivanovich Shuiskii)
- Plates
- Abstracts and Keywords
- Index of Art works and Manuscripts
- Index of Persons and Names
- Index of Subjects