A New Look at the History of the Veneration of Prince Fyodor the Black
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15826/qr.2020.5.558Keywords:
Russian history, Old Russian literature, hagiography, Prince Fyodor the Black, 16th-century, manuscriptsAbstract
This review examines Prince Fyodor the Black in Russian History and Culture. Research and Texts (2019) by G. Lenhoff, an American Slavonic scholar, written with the participation of Russian scholars V. P. Efimenko and B. M. Kloss. Regarding the monograph as a very useful work on the history and literature of the Russian Middle Ages, the reviewer makes some remarks. First, it is necessary to clarify the spread of hagiographical texts in mediaeval Russia; second, it is important to consider the history of the veneration of Fyodor the Black in the context of ideological campaigns of the Russian Church and the secular authorities in the mid-sixteenth century; third, a more thorough examination of the account of Fyodor’s life written by Andrei Yuryev is required; and, finally, it is necessary to refer to some works on the hagiography of Tver and Suzdal and on manuscripts.
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