Contributors and Proposed Articles

Holy Foolishness in Russia: New Perspectives

Bubnov, N. Iu., «The Illustrations to the  Life of Andrew the Fool in the Tradition of  Russian Old Believers»

Hunt, Priscilla, “’The Life of St. Andrew the Fool, and the Problem of Knowledge in Byzantino-Russian Tradition”

Hunt, Priscilla, “Introduction: Holy Foolishness as a Key to Russian Culture”

Ivanov, Sergei, “Holy Fools and Old Believers: Religious Paradigms of Dissent”

Kobets, Svitlana, Survey of the Scholarly Literature on Holy Foolishness

Kobets, Svitlana, "Isaakii of the Kievan Caves Monastery: An Ascetic Feigning Madness or a Madman-Turned-Saint?"

Piccolo, Laura,  “The Body, Clothing and Nakedness in the Paradigm of Holy Foolishness” 

Sabbatini, Marco, "The Pathos of HOly Foolishness in the Leningrad Underground" 

Styrkov, Sergei, “The Unmerry Widow: The Blessed Ksenia of Petersburg in Hagiography and Hymnography"

Vakareliyska, Cynthia M. "Why There are So Few Holy Fools in the  Medieval Bulgarian Calendars of Saints"


 
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