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This landmark edited collection offers a new series of studies of power, religion and language in the literature of the Slavic Christian world. The focus is on how saints became symbols of power during conversion and the process of transition to Christianity. Studies of locally venerated saints provide a road into early Slavic societies because saints and their cults existed and were sustained for a wide variety of reasons. Rulers and church-leaders alike needed symbols and narratives to maintain and expand their power, and hagiographies allow us to study how this power was brokered, shared and grasped by elites. Collectively, the authors in this volume pursue the idea that saints are an outward expression of Christianity becoming embedded and localized in the newly Christianized societies of East and Central Europe.
The period covered here stretches from the Macedonian dynasty in Eastern Rome (c. 800) to the rise of Muscovite rule in Russia (c. 1600). The main focus is on the Slavic religious traditions but, as this volume demonstrates, Greek and Baltic traditions were also significant.
This book will be essential reading for researchers and students interested in the religious and cultural history of Eastern Europe, the cult of saints, and the rise of Christendom.
Contents
Introduction: Assessing Slavic saints — Chapter 2: The Legacy of Iconophile Theology of Vita Constantini — Chapter 3: Conversion of pagan rulers of Lithuania — Chapter 4: Prince Voyshelk as a local saint — Chapter 5: St. Parasceve of Epibatae the Younger — Chapter 6: Saint Adalbert and Saints Five Brothers Martyrs — Chapter 7: When sainthood is not enough - Biblical legitimisation of dynastic power in Kyivan Rus' — Chapter 8: The Life of Saint Theodosius of the Cave and the genre tradition — Chapter 9: Transmission Practices in the Early Hagiography of Rus' before the 16th century — Chapter 10: The Latin mass in Old Church Slavonic — Chapter 11: The Waldensian concept of catholic saints: total rejection or hidden faith — Chapter 12: The Holy Kings and the Forms of Sanctity in The Chronicle of the Priest of Duklja — Chapter 13: Killing the Tsar, again - Power and sainthood amongst the early Slavic ruler saints — Authors and editors
