東方キリスト教における聖バジリウス他の「聖なる痴れ者」の系譜：ビザンティン帝国の最盛期を中心に描く文化史（英訳） Holy Fools in Byzantium and Beyond (Oxford Studies in Byzantium)

Ivanov, Sergey A./ Franklin, Simon (TRN)

Oxford University Press（2006/04発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 496 p.／サイズ 2 halftones
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780199272518
• DDC分類 281.90922

基本説明

In this pioneering study Sergey A. Ivanov examines the phenomenon of holy foolery from a cultural standpoint. 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.

Full Description

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.

Contents

Introduction ; 1. The Precursors and Emergence of Holy Foolery ; 2. Early Holy Foolery ; 3. The Golden Age of Holy Foolery ; 4. The Decline of Byzantine Holy Foolery ; 5. Holy Foolery's Eastern Periphery ; 6. Holy Foolery's Western Periphery ; 7. Old Russian Iurodstvo ; 8. The Iurodivyi and the Tsar ; 9. Iurodstvo in Transition ; 10. Iurodstvo Meets Modernity