Sean Griffin

The Liturgical Past in Byzantium and Early Rus

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Produktbeschreibung

The first major study of the relationship between liturgy and historiography in early medieval Rus.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 418g
• ISBN-13: 9781108814843
• ISBN-10: 1108814840
• Artikelnr.: 59984029

Autorenporträt

Sean Griffin is a junior fellow in the Society of Fellows at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. His interdisciplinary research focuses on both the most ancient and the most recent periods of Russian and Ukrainian history. He has previously been a Visiting Professor at Stanford University and was a VolkswagenStiftung fellow at Westfälische Wilhems-Universität in Münster, Germany from 2016 to 2017.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Liturgy and history in Early Rus
2. The Rus Primary Chronicle
3. Vespers at the Kiev Monastery of the Caves
4. The dayspring before the sun: Princess Olga of Kiev
5. A new Constantine in the North: Prince Vladimir and the Baptism of Rus
6. A rational sacrifice: the martyrdom of Princes Boris and Gleb
Conclusion: the making of royal saints in Early Rus.