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The Tale of Boiarynia Morozova. A Seventeenth-Century Religious Life.
Margaret Ziolkowski
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Description for The Tale of Boiarynia Morozova. A Seventeenth-Century Religious Life.
Hardback. This study comprises an introduction, translation, and commentary to a 17th-century Russian account of the spiritual development and inspired resistance of a prominent female dissident. Num Pages: 144 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JD; DSBD; HRAX; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 345.
Margaret Ziolkowski's book comprises a thorough introduction to, skillful translation of, and erudite commentary on the four-hundred-year-old Tale of Boiarynia Morozova. The story of Feodosia Morozova, a member of the Russian aristocratic elite and a major participant in the Russian Othodox Schism, describes one of the most violent ruptures in religious history—the complete destabilization of the bastions of church and society in seventeenth-century Russia. In her explication of this famous text, Ziolkowski examines the hagiography of the Tale, the spiritual asceticism of Morozova in the context of Christian womens' struggles for independence, and the role this prominent female dissident has ... Read more
Margaret Ziolkowski's book comprises a thorough introduction to, skillful translation of, and erudite commentary on the four-hundred-year-old Tale of Boiarynia Morozova. The story of Feodosia Morozova, a member of the Russian aristocratic elite and a major participant in the Russian Othodox Schism, describes one of the most violent ruptures in religious history—the complete destabilization of the bastions of church and society in seventeenth-century Russia. In her explication of this famous text, Ziolkowski examines the hagiography of the Tale, the spiritual asceticism of Morozova in the context of Christian womens' struggles for independence, and the role this prominent female dissident has ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Lexington Books United States
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780739101773
SKU
V9780739101773
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About Margaret Ziolkowski
Margaret Ziolkowski is Professor in the department of German, Russian and East Asian Languages at Miami University. She is the authorLiterary Exorcisms of Stalinism: Russian Writers and the Soviet Past (1998) andHagiography and Modern Russian Literature(1988).
Reviews for The Tale of Boiarynia Morozova. A Seventeenth-Century Religious Life.
She has given the field an elegant, subtle edition of a most useful, too-long-neglected primary source. Along with recent studies by Serhii Plokhy and Isolde Thyret, she vividly reminds us of the religious ferment of the seventeenth century in Muscovy and Europe generally. Thanks to Ziolkowski, boiarynia Morozova can now take her place among the many zealots who were her ... Read more