medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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All good wishes, George
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George FERZOCO
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> From: Stella Rock <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 8 October 2009 18:06:02 BDT
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Help with Russian topic
>
> Dear list owners, I am unable to send this from my usual address (a
> mail forwarding service [log in to unmask]) at the moment - I'd
> appreciate it if you could forward to the list for me.
> Thanks,
> Stella
>
>
> Dear Tom
>
> Forgive the plug, but my book Popular Religion in Russia: 'Double
> Belief' and the Making of an Academic Myth ( http://
> www.routledge.com/books/Popular-Religion-in-Russia-
> isbn9780415545358 ) addresses precisely this notion. It was a
> persistent motif in Soviet and Western historiography of medieval
> Russian religion, and still pops up today in popular writing about
> Russia. But it shouldn't, and I would encourage your student to
> take a different tack.
>
> All the best,
> Stella
>
> At 17:40 08/10/2009, you wrote:
>> Dear Colleagues,
>>
>> A student has submitted to me a proposal for a thesis on the 12th-
>> century poem, “The Lay of Igor’s Campaign,” proposing to study it
>> for evidence of the persistence of paganism and the influence of
>> “paganism” on the “formation of the medieval Russian mind.” The
>> overall point of the thesis seems to be that paganism whatever
>> this is taken to mean--was a decisive influence on Russian culture
>> in the Middle Ages.
>>
>> If the student were proposing a similar thesis on a western
>> European topic, it would strike me as obviously naïve. I can
>> direct the student to some basic scholarship on Christianization
>> in medieval Europe, the problem of “popular” religion, and so on.
>> But I know very little about medieval Russia.
>>
>> Can someone help me with suggestions for scholarship to which I
>> might direct this student in English or in Russian? And can
>> someone tell me, is the question of the influence of paganism a
>> live one in scholarship on medieval Russian literature or
>> religious culture?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Tom
>>
>> F. Thomas Luongo, Ph.D.
>> Associate Professor of History
>> Associate Dean for Honors, Newcomb-Tulane College
>> Tulane University
>> 105 Hebert Hall
>> New Orleans, LA 70118-5698
>> tel 504.865.5517
>> fax 504.862.8709
>> http://honors.tulane.edu
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