Author:Translated by Muriel Heppell with a Preface by Sir Dimitri Obolensky
The Paterik of the Kievan Caves Monastery
Harvard University Press
1989
Format: pdf
Size: 35.6 MB
Language: English
The Kievan Caves Monastery was for centuries the most important Ukrainian monastic establishment. It was the outstanding center of literary production, and its monks served throughout the territory of Rus' as bishops and monastic superiors. The most detailed source for the monastery early history is its Paterik, a thirteenth-century compilation containing stories reaching back to the monastery's foundation in the mideleventh century. Muriel Heppell now makes available the first complete English translation of the Paterik. With an introduction, map, and several appendices, Muriel Heppell discusses the work's Byzantine background and also sets it in its historical context.
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