04056nam 2200637 450 991045652720332120200520144314.01-4426-8410-010.3138/9781442684102(CKB)2430000000001997(OCoLC)646540665(CaPaEBR)ebrary10269843(SSID)ssj0000381767(PQKBManifestationID)12126959(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000381767(PQKBWorkID)10391259(PQKB)10074954(CaBNvSL)slc00222068(CaPaEBR)424252(MiAaPQ)EBC3261255(MiAaPQ)EBC4672304(DE-B1597)464053(OCoLC)944177198(OCoLC)999360072(DE-B1597)9781442684102(Au-PeEL)EBL4672304(CaPaEBR)ebr11257977(OCoLC)958571933(EXLCZ)99243000000000199720160923h20072007 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrByzantine hermeneutics and pedagogy in the Russian north monks and masters at the Kirillo-Belozerskii Monastery, 1397-1501 /Robert RomanchukToronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,2007.©20071 online resource (471 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8020-9063-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- PART ONE -- 1. 'Where Is the Russian Peter Abelard?': Silence and Intellectual Awakening at a North Russian Monastery -- 2. The 'Artless Word' and the Artisan: Approaching Monastic Hermeneutics in Eastern Europe -- PART TWO -- 3. 'Strangers to the World, Fixing Our Minds in Heaven': St Kirill's Laura as a Textual Community (1397-1435) -- 4. 'The Lover of This Book': 'Philosophy' and Philology under Hegumen Trifon (1435-1448) -- Intermedium: The Schooling and Professionalization of Scribes, 1448-1470 -- 5. 'The Best Thing of All Is One's Own Will': The Community of Scholars at Kirillov (1470-1501) -- Epilogue: Some Possibilities and Limits of 'Byzantine Humanism' -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of Manuscripts -- IndexThe Kirillov Monastery at White Lake in the far north of the Muscovite state was home to the greatest library, and perhaps the only secondary school, in all of medieval Russia. This volume reconstructs the educational activities of the spiritual fathers and heretofore unknown teachers of that monastery.Drawing on extensive archival research, published records, and scholarship from a range of fields, Robert Romanchuk demonstrates how different habits of reading and interpretation at the monastery answered to different social priorities. He argues that 'spiritual' and 'worldly' studies were bound to the monastery's two main forms of social organization, semi-hermitic and communal. Further, Romanchuk contextualizes such innovative phenomena as the editing work of the monk Efrosin and the monastery's strikingly sophisticated library catalogue against the development of learning at Kirillov itself in the fifteenth century, moving the discussion of medieval Russian book culture in a new direction.The first micro-historical 'ethnology of reading' in the Early Slavic field, Byzantine Hermeneutics and Pedagogy in the Russian North will prove fascinating to western medievalists, Byzantinists, Slavists, and book historians.HermeneuticsReligious aspectsElectronic books.HermeneuticsReligious aspects.200.1Romanchuk Robert1968-896931MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456527203321Byzantine hermeneutics and pedagogy in the Russian north2004152UNINA