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Vizantiĭskoe i︠u︡rodstvo

Title
  1. Vizantiĭskoe i︠u︡rodstvo / S.A. Ivanov.
Published by
  1. Moskva : "Mezhdunarodnye otnoshenii︠a︡", 1994.
Author
  1. Ivanov, S. A. (Sergeĭ Arkadʹevich), 1956-

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Description
  1. 234 pages; 20 cm
Subject
  1. Holy fools > Byzantine Empire
  2. Asceticism > Orthodox Eastern Church
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Note
  1. Summary in English entitled: Byzantine holy folly.
  2. "A holy fool is a person who acts like a madman but is viewed by the medieval public as a normal person feigning insanity for ascetic or moralistic purposes. Only Orthodox Christianity recognized yurodivy as a type of saint and only two languages have a special word for a holy fool: Russian yurodivy and Greek salos." -- English summary of: Byzantine holy folly, p. 225.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 192-[220]) and indexes.