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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Titolo del capitolo
Karion Istomin and the Trinity of Wisdom: God, the Sovereign, and the Poet. Praise of Wisdom in the Panegyric to Petr Alekseevič (1683)
Autori
Erica Camisa Morale
Lingua
English
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0585-6.20
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Anno di pubblicazione
2024
Copyright
© 2024 Author(s)
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Licenza dei metadati
Titolo del libro
Language and Education in Petrine Russia
Sottotitolo del libro
Essays in Honour of Maria Cristina Bragone
Curatori
Swetlana Mengel, Laura Rossi
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Numero di pagine
442
Anno di pubblicazione
2024
Copyright
© 2024 Author(s)
Licenza d'uso
Licenza dei metadati
Editore
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
Collana
Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici
ISSN della collana
2612-7687
e-ISSN della collana
2612-7679