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»

 

Gladkova, Olesia. “St. Isidore Tverdislov: An Old Russian Saint who came from the West”

 

Gurianova, N. and  L.D. Demidova. “From Holy Fool to Bookman: The Shield of Faith of the Monk Avraamii and the Ideology of the Early Old Believer Movement”

 

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” 

 

Prestel, David, Tale of Nikola/Sviatosha  in the Kievan caves Patericon as Holy Folly.

 

Sabbatini, Marco, “The Pathos of Holy Foolishness in the  Leningrad Underground”

 

Svoboda, Marina, “The Ascetics and the Prophets: the Topos of Holy Foolishness in the Vitas of Avraamii of Smolensk and Mikhail of Klopsk”

 

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"

 

Vlasov, Andrei, «The Holy Fools Prokopii and Ioann of Ustiug: the Overcoming  of the Medieval Canon for a Cultural Text in Monuments of Northern Russian Written Tradition»