"The Oldest One in Russia"
The Formation of the Historiographical Image of Valaam Monastery
Biographical note
Kati Parppei, Ph. D. (2010) in History, University of Eastern Finland, is a researcher in the Department of Geographical and Historical Studies at University of Eastern Finland. She has recently published works on image studies and borderland issues.
Readership
All those interested in the history of ideas, the history of mentalities, Russian history, the history of Russian monasticism, history and memory, the processes of nation building and borderland issues.
Reviews
"a fundamental work about the role of monasteries in Russian social and cultural life"
Ludwig Steindorff, Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel
Ludwig Steindorff, Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel
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Eros and Creativity in Russian Religious Renewal explores a tradition of sublimation and the theories of creativity in works of the four greatest Russian religious thinkers: Solovyov, Rozanov, Berdyaev and Vysheslatsev. Crone's study adds what is missing to the few books that currently exist ...
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