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Title:

BYZANTIUM-RUS-RUSSIA
STUDIES IN THE TRANSLATION OF CHRISTIAN CULTURE

By:

Simon Franklin

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ISBN 10:

0860788903

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9780860788904

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Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

15 October, 2002

Series:

Variorum Collected Studies

Pages:

352

Description:

The majority of the articles reproduced in this study are concerned with the twin illusions of cultural history - continuity and discontinuity. An examination of the translation of Christian culture, the book emphasizes how tradition is a matter of perception - a "making sense" of the past.

Synopsis:

The Christian culture of Rus (the medieval precursor of modern Russia, Ukraine and Belarus) is sometimes presented either as a reflection of an indigenous spirituality wrapped in borrowed (Byzantine) forms or, by contrast, as merely a provincial version of its Byzantine original. The essays in this volume start from the premise that neither view is adequate. The history of culture - even of a self-consciously imitative culture - involves a continual process of inevitable 'mistranslation', as the imported models are reshaped and reinterpreted according to local resources, circumstances and preconceptions. These essays explore aspects of the 'translation of culture' on several levels: from the semantic processes of the actual translation of written texts from Greek into Slavonic, through to larger issues of ideology and identity. They consider both the initial stages of such 'translation' (from Byzantium to Rus) and some of the subsequent 'retranslations' of the Byzantine heritage in the culture of Rus and - eventually - of Russia.

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