Depicting Orthodoxy in the Russian Middle Ages: The Novgorod Icon of Sophia, the Divine Wisdom

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Depicting Orthodoxy in the Russian Middle Ages: The Novgorod Icon of Sophia, the Divine Wisdom
Copyright
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
	The Novgorod Sophia Icon and the Viskovatyi Affair
	The Novgorod Sophia Icon and the Sophiological Controversy
	The State of Research
	Research Questions and Objectives
PART I: WORD
	1: The Icon and Its Commentary
	2: The Winged Bride: Quotations in the Sophia Commentary
		The ‘God-seeing bird’—Ephrem the Syrian: Homily on the Beauteous Joseph
		‘The fire is Divinity’—Slavonic Liturgical Commentaries
		The Wedding Garments and Eschatology—The Fountain of Wisdom
	3: Medieval Russian Sophiology: The Context of the Sophia Commentary in the Manuscripts
		The Hagia Sophia in Constantinople
		Wisdom as Orthodoxy
		‘Wisdom has Christ above the head as the head is Wisdom’
PART II: IMAGE
	4: Representations of Wisdom in Rus
	5: The Novgorod Sophia Icon as a Deesis
		The Royal Deesis in Novgorod
		Deesis, The Image of the Church
		The Coronation of the Virgin and Anti-Greek Visual Polemics in the West
		The Royal Deesis and Anti-Latin Visual Polemics in the East
		The Sophiological Synthesis
	6: Sophia in the Womb of the Virgin
		Sophia Has Built Her Temple
		The Theotokos Nikopoios at the Ohrid Saint Sophia Church
		The Theotokos Nikopoios and Byzantine Imperial Orthodoxy
PART III: IDENTITY
	7: Slavonic Sophia Churches and the Schism of 1054
		A New Byzantine Apse Decoration
		The Azymes Controversy and Visualizing a New Orthodox Identity
	8: Leaven and Byzantine Marian Iconography
		The Marian Aspect of the Azymes Controversy
		The Theotokos Blachernitissa-Znamenie as a Eucharistic Image
		The Rite of the Elevation of the Panagia
	9: Depicting Orthodoxy in Rus
		Visualized Theology of Theosis
		The Hetoimasia
		The Iconography of Light
		Anti-Latin Ecclesiology of Novgorod Icons
PART IV: HISTORY
	10: Sophia, the Divine Wisdom, and the Union of Florence
		Novgorod and the Union of Florence
		The Apostolic Church of Divine Wisdom, Saint Sophia
	11: Evfimii II, Archbishop of Novgorod
		Evfimii’s Patronage
		Evfimii’s Icons
	12: The Hagia Sophia in Rome
		Monk Efrosin and the Third Redaction of the Sophia Commentary
		Sophia—‘The Mother of God, that is, virginal soul’
		Sophia in Novgorod, the Third Rome
		Sophia in Moscow, the Third Rome
	Conclusions: Towards the Viskovatyi Affair
APPENDIX
	Critical Edition of the Sophia Commentary with English Translation
	The Content of the Sophia Commentary
	The Context of the Sophia Commentary
	Dating and Localization of the Sophia Commentary
	The Recensions of the Sophia Commentary in the Fifteenth Century
		Text N
		Text K
	English Translation
	Selected Words from Numerous Books, Questions-and-Answers and Different Passages: Sermon on Wisdom
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	Catalogue: The Iconography of the Novgorod Sophia in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
	General Iconographic Characteristics
	Types of the Novgorod Sophia Iconography until the End of the Sixteenth Century
	The History of the Novgorod Sophia Iconography until the End of the Sixteenth Century
	Catalogue
References
Index