This article demonstrates how Karion Istomin’s Book of Understanding Intellectual Vision and Bodily Activity in God’s Wisdom (1683), the panegyric offered to Petr Alekseevič for his eleventh name-day, exemplifies an ongoing phenomenon in turn-of-the-century East Slavic culture, namely the shift from the Medieval idea of wisdom as something that God located in the human heart to Classical and Renaissance ideas of wisdom as something that humans achieve through active study. Karion Istomin not only strengthened the ties between Muscovy and Classical and European culture, continuing the legacy of the previous generation of poets like Simeon Polockij and Evfimij Čudovskij; he also contributed to establishing a new notion of culture as human achievement and a new role of the poet as the promoter of such culture.
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Chapter Title
Karion Istomin and the Trinity of Wisdom: God, the Sovereign, and the Poet. Praise of Wisdom in the Panegyric to Petr Alekseevič (1683)
Authors
Erica Camisa Morale
Language
English
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0585-6.20
Peer Reviewed
Publication Year
2024
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Book Title
Language and Education in Petrine Russia
Book Subtitle
Essays in Honour of Maria Cristina Bragone
Editors
Swetlana Mengel, Laura Rossi
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
442
Publication Year
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0585-6
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0584-9
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0585-6
Series Title
Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici
Series ISSN
2612-7687
Series E-ISSN
2612-7679