A01=Margaret Ziolkowski
Author_Margaret Ziolkowski
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Product details
- ISBN 9780739101773
- Weight: 345g
- Dimensions: 154 x 236mm
- Publication Date: 20 Dec 2000
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Margaret Ziolkowski's book comprises a thorough introduction to, skillful translation of, and erudite commentary on the four-hundred-year-old Tale of Boiarynia Morozova. The story of Feodosia Morozova, a member of the Russian aristocratic elite and a major participant in the Russian Othodox Schism, describes one of the most violent ruptures in religious history—the complete destabilization of the bastions of church and society in seventeenth-century Russia. In her explication of this famous text, Ziolkowski examines the hagiography of the Tale, the spiritual asceticism of Morozova in the context of Christian womens' struggles for independence, and the role this prominent female dissident has played as a symbol of resistance to corrupt authority. This work makes a significant contribution to the history of the Orthodox Church, pre-Petrine Russia, women in religion, and the study of medieval Russian literature.
Margaret Ziolkowski is Professor in the department of German, Russian and East Asian Languages at Miami University. She is the authorLiterary Exorcisms of Stalinism: Russian Writers and the Soviet Past (1998) andHagiography and Modern Russian Literature(1988).
