Enigma in Rus and Medieval Slavic Cultures
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Enigma in Rus and Medieval Slavic Cultures

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  2. English
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Enigma in Rus and Medieval Slavic Cultures

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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 patristic translations, liturgical commentaries, occult divinatory texts, and dream interpretations. Slavic riddles inscribed on walls and compilations of riddles in question-and-answer format are all subjects of this volume. Not only written, but also pictorial enigmas are examined, together with their relationships to texts suggesting novel methodologies for their deciphering. This kaleidoscopic survey of Enigma in Rus and Medieval Slavic Cultures by an international group of scholars demonstrates the historiographical challenges that medieval enigmatic thought poses for researchers and offers new approaches to the interpretation of medieval sources, both verbal and visual.

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Information

Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9783110779103
eBook ISBN
9783110779226
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
Eastern European History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgements
  2. Contents
  3. Abbreviations
  4. List of Contributors
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Introduction
  7. Translating Enigma
  8. 1 Enigma and the Enigmatic in Medieval Slavonic Biblical Manuscripts
  9. 2 Enigma, Mystery, and Parable as Key Words in the Miscellany of Simeon (the Izbornik of 1073)
  10. Mystery of the Rite
  11. 3 Slavonic Commentaries on the Liturgy: Symbols and Church Usage
  12. 4 The Gospel of Nicodemus and the Cult of St Longinus
  13. Canonical and Prohibited Secrets
  14. 5 The Enigma of the Night: Dream Interpretations in Medieval Slavonic Apocrypha
  15. 6 Occult and Esoteric Texts in Sixteenth-Century Russia: The Secret of Secrets and the Rafli
  16. 7 Riddles in the Apocryphal Conversation of the Three Hierarchs
  17. At the intersection of the Visual and the Verbal
  18. 8 Enigmas and the Enigmatic in Early Rus Epigraphy
  19. 9 Cryptography in medieval Rus from the Synchronistic and Diachronistic Point of View (Manuscripts of the Fourteenth–Fifteenth Centuries)
  20. 10 Visual Riddles and Spiritual Perception in Medieval Slavic Manuscripts
  21. Late Medieval Russian Visual Riddles
  22. 11 Verbal and Visual Riddles in Medieval Russian Iconography
  23. 12 The Literalist Mindset of Early Muscovite Painting
  24. 13 “You are a Priest Forever”: An Anti-Heretical Mnemonic Icon
  25. Decoding Medieval Enigmas
  26. 14 The Tsar’s Hidden Wisdom
  27. 15 Enigmatic Motifs in Medieval Russian Icons
  28. 16 The Sacralization of Canon Law in Rus (Thirteenth–Sixteenth Centuries)
  29. 17 The Sovereign’s Two Names (Potapii Maksimovich the Grandson of Matvei, or Vasilii Ivanovich Shuiskii)
  30. Plates
  31. Abstracts and Keywords
  32. Index of Art works and Manuscripts
  33. Index of Persons and Names
  34. Index of Subjects