Christianity before Christianization: Christians and Christian Activity in Pre-988 Rus'

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS VII
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS IX
4. ABBREVIATIONS XI
5. INTRODUCTION 1
6. PART I. History of Christianity
7. Universal Witness and Local Identity in Russian Orthodoxy (988-1988) 11
8. Крещение Руси: Мировоззренческие и зстетические аспекты 30
9. Christianity before Christianization: Christians and Christian Activity in Pre-988 Rus' 42
10. The Spirituality of the Early Kievan Caves Monastery 63
11. When Was Olga Canonized? 77
12. Why Did the Metropolitan Move from Kiev to Vladimir in the Thirteenth Century? 83
13. The Origins of the Muscovite Ecclesiastical Claims to the Kievan Inheritance (Early Fourteenth Century to 1458/1461) 102
14. Religion and Identity in the Carpathians: East Christians in Poland and Czechoslovakia 116
15. PART II. Church Slavic and the Medieval Literary Tradition
16. ([Church] Slavonic) Writing in Kievan Rus' 141
17. On the Place of the Cyrillo-Methodian Tradition in Epiphanius's Life of Saint Stephen of Perm 154
18. The Corpus of Slavonic Translations Available in Muscovy: The Cause of Old Russia's Intellectual Silence and a Contributory Factor to Muscovite Cultural Autarky 179
19. Церковнославянизмы в украинском языке 215
20. PART III: Christianity and Medieval Cultural Paradigms
21. Солярно-лунарная символика в облике русского храма 241
22. The Notion of "Uncorrupted Relics" in Early Russian Culture 252
23. Justice in Avvakum's Fifth Petition to Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich 276
24. Традиционность и уникальность сочинений протопопа Аввакума в свете традиции Третьего Рима 297
25. The Evolution of Church Music in Belorussia 328
26. Notes on the Contributors 357
27. Index 361