Russian Middle Ages. World of Ideas
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Russian Middle Ages. World of Ideas
49.99 €
A new book by renowned medieval historians, bestselling authors of books on the Middle Ages and lecturers-educators Dmitry Antonov, Mikhail Mayzuls and Lyudmila Sukina on the Russian Middle Ages and the worldview of its contemporaries.
The authors touch on many topics, including rare and little-known ones, and place them in a broad context. What did medieval man think about earthly and heavenly authority? How did he envision the structure of family and state, Heaven and the underworld? What did he think about the Church, sins and sacraments? How did he understand time and history? And what role did invisible spirits, angels and demons play in all this? The book has over 140 illustrations, including rare archival images. The culture of the Middle Ages is both far from modernity and very close to it. Many traditions, habits and even phrases that have entered our everyday life come from this era. The book is devoted to ideas about man, society and power, about time and history, the world of earthly and heavenly, about people, angels and demons. "The culture of the Middle Ages still influences our language, art, literature, and little-noticed habits. It is full of mysteries, unusual ideas, surprising practices that are rarely written about or talked about. Not as many popular books are devoted to Russian medieval culture as to European culture. We wanted to tell about it in our own way. To describe rare ideas and unusual practices, but at the same time to give a general panorama of important ideas for the Middle Ages"
The authors touch on many topics, including rare and little-known ones, and place them in a broad context. What did medieval man think about earthly and heavenly authority? How did he envision the structure of family and state, Heaven and the underworld? What did he think about the Church, sins and sacraments? How did he understand time and history? And what role did invisible spirits, angels and demons play in all this? The book has over 140 illustrations, including rare archival images. The culture of the Middle Ages is both far from modernity and very close to it. Many traditions, habits and even phrases that have entered our everyday life come from this era. The book is devoted to ideas about man, society and power, about time and history, the world of earthly and heavenly, about people, angels and demons. "The culture of the Middle Ages still influences our language, art, literature, and little-noticed habits. It is full of mysteries, unusual ideas, surprising practices that are rarely written about or talked about. Not as many popular books are devoted to Russian medieval culture as to European culture. We wanted to tell about it in our own way. To describe rare ideas and unusual practices, but at the same time to give a general panorama of important ideas for the Middle Ages"
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