Of fools and men: Iurodstvo in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Russia
<p>This thesis investigates the emergence and rise in popularity of a type of saint known in Russian as <em>iurodivyi</em>, and in English as holy fool or fool for Christ, in late fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Russia. In doing so, it breaks with past scholarship on the topic, wh...
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2024
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