xvi, 939 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

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Part I. The Medieval Period; Introduction: Defining the medieval; 1. Institutions and contexts: Writing and authorship,1100-1400; A new language for a new people: Old Church Slavonic; Monastic writing: Translation, open boundaries, and selectivity

The limits of the literary system: Rhetoric, compilation, and genreThe meaning of readership; Scribal culture and the author function; Literary identity: Collective writing and singularity; Case study: The Voyage of Afanasy Nikitin: Self and other; 2. Holy Rus:́ Landmarks in medieval literature; Fou...

Miracle workers, the Virgin, and holy foolsCase study: The holy fool in the modern tradition; Ilarion redux: The fifteenth-century elaboration of hagiography; Keyword: Word-weaving; 3. Local narratives; Unhappy families: The trauma of invasion; The Lay of Igor's Campaign and the princely image; Case...

Ivan the Terrible: Tsardom and the absolutist "I"Center and periphery and the localism of the Tale of Petr and Fevronia; Conclusion; Part II: The Seventeenth Century; Introduction: The problem of transition and a new approach; 1. Paradise lost: National narratives; Narratives from the Time of Troubl...

2. Cultural interface: Printing, Humanist learning, and Orthodox resistance in the second half of the seventeenth century3. Court theater; Keyword: Baroque; 4. Poets; New expressions and techniques; Paradise regained: Simeon Polotsky's poetic garden; Friendship; Mortality; 5. Prose; Popular fiction...