16 The Sacralization of Canon Law in Rus (Thirteenth–Sixteenth Centuries)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Contents VII
4. Abbreviations XI
5. List of Contributors XIII
6. List of Illustrations XVII
7. Introduction 1
8. Translating Enigma
9. 1 Enigma and the Enigmatic in Medieval Slavonic Biblical Manuscripts 13
10. 2 Enigma, Mystery, and Parable as Key Words in the Miscellany of Simeon (the Izbornik of 1073) 31
11. Mystery of the Rite
12. 3 Slavonic Commentaries on the Liturgy: Symbols and Church Usage 51
13. 4 The Gospel of Nicodemus and the Cult of St Longinus 63
14. Canonical and Prohibited Secrets
15. 5 The Enigma of the Night: Dream Interpretations in Medieval Slavonic Apocrypha 105
16. 6 Occult and Esoteric Texts in Sixteenth-Century Russia: The Secret of Secrets and the Rafli 125
17. 7 Riddles in the Apocryphal Conversation of the Three Hierarchs 141
18. At the intersection of the Visual and the Verbal
19. 8 Enigmas and the Enigmatic in Early Rus Epigraphy 155
20. 9 Cryptography in medieval Rus from the Synchronistic and Diachronistic Point of View (Manuscripts of the Fourteenth–Fifteenth Centuries) 173
21. 10 Visual Riddles and Spiritual Perception in Medieval Slavic Manuscripts 193
22. Late Medieval Russian Visual Riddles
23. 11 Verbal and Visual Riddles in Medieval Russian Iconography 215
24. 12 The Literalist Mindset of Early Muscovite Painting 231
25. 13 “You are a Priest Forever”: An Anti-Heretical Mnemonic Icon 253
26. Decoding Medieval Enigmas
27. 14 The Tsar’s Hidden Wisdom 271
28. 15 Enigmatic Motifs in Medieval Russian Icons 303
29. 16 The Sacralization of Canon Law in Rus (Thirteenth–Sixteenth Centuries) 337
30. 17 The Sovereign’s Two Names (Potapii Maksimovich the Grandson of Matvei, or Vasilii Ivanovich Shuiskii) 349
31. Plates 363
32. Abstracts and Keywords 365
33. Index of Art works and Manuscripts 375
34. Index of Persons and Names 379
35. Index of Subjects 385