Projektnummer

0060612

Zusammenfassung

"Byzantine Liturgy in Rus: The Making of the Kievan Primary Chronicle" is a transnational study of medieval monastic culture and the role that religious rituals played in the generation of cultural artifacts. The monastic chroniclers of medieval Rus lived in a liturgical world. Morning, evening and night they prayed the "divine services" of the Byzantine Church, and this study is the first to examine how these rituals shaped the way they wrote and compiled the Povest'vremennykh let (Primary Chronicle, ca. 12th century), the earliest surviving East Slavic historical record. This study's...