The edificatory prose of Kievan Rusʹ / translated by William R. Veder and with introductions by William R. Veder and Anatolij A. Turilov.

Uniform title
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
[Cambridge, MA] : Distributed by Harvard University Press for the Ukrainian Research Institute of Harvard University, [1994], ©1994.
Description
lvi, 202 pages ; 24 cm.

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Subject(s)
Series
  • Harvard Library of early Ukrainian literature. English translations ; v. 6. [More in this series]
  • Harvard Library of early Ukrainian literature. English translations = Harvardsʹka biblioteka davnʹoho ukraïnsʹkoho pysʹmenstva. Korpus anhliĭsʹkykh perekladiv ; v. 6 [More in this series]
Contains
Summary note
  • This volume consists of two of the oldest texts of Kievan Rus': the Izbornik of 1076 and Grigorij the Philosopher's Homilies on all the Days of the Week. The Izbornik is the earliest extant witness to the reception and subsequent transformation of Eastern Orthodox moral instruction that resulted from the transmission to Rus' of Bulgarian Slavic translations from Greek.
  • The Homilies of Grigorij the Philosopher, translated for the first time into any modern language, is the earliest dated and localized Slavic text (Kiev, ca. 1062). These rhetorically artistic and sophisticated homilies reflect the views of an early Kievan preacher and the moral needs of his Rus' audience. The Edificatory Prose of Kievan Rus' is an indispensable volume for all students of Slavia Orthodoxa in the eleventh century.
Notes
  • Translated from Old Rusʹ and other slavic languages.
  • Also includes Sloves sedmʹ stvoreno na polzou dshi po pěnii︠u︡ paraklitie̜.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-190) and indexes.
Contents
  • I. The Edificatory Prose of Kievan Rus'. II. The Izbornik of 1076. III. The Homilies of Grigorij the Philosopher
  • The Izbornik of 1076
  • The Homilies of Grigorij the Philosopher.
ISBN
  • 0916458547
  • 091645858X (pbk.)
OCLC
46364404
RCP
C - S
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