The book offers an overview of homiletic literature in the Kievian period (XI-XIII century) through the figures of four preachers: the Metropolitan Nikifor I († 1121), Serapion Vladimirskij († 1275), Luka Židjata († 1059) and the hegumen Moisej († 1187). Adopting an approach that, on the one hand takes into consideration the methods recently applied to the study of Western and Byzantine mediaeval homiletics, and on the other recent studies addressing the rhetorical form and the use of citations, the author investigates the function of the Biblical and liturgical citations in the texts of the Slavic-Oriental homiletic tradition, proposing an interpretation in a key that is not merely rhetorical but also linked to pragmatic linguistics.
University of Pisa, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0003-4994-7062
Book Title
Predicatori nelle terre slavo-orientali (XI-XIII sec.)
Book Subtitle
Retorica e strategie comunicative
Authors
Francesca Romoli
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
386
Publication Year
2009
Copyright Information
© 2009 Author(s)
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Metadata License
Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-8453-950-2
ISBN Print
978-88-8453-949-6
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-8453-950-2
eISBN (xml)
978-88-5518-872-2
Series Title
Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici
Series ISSN
2612-7687
Series E-ISSN
2612-7679