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Monastics and Seculars under Yaroslav the Wise

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 August 2011

R. P. Casey
Affiliation:
Brown University

Extract

In Cross's excellent translation of the Russian Primary Chronicle a misunderstanding in the famous passage describing Yaroslav's encouragement of religion and learning has obscured an historical point. Cross translates,

“Thus Yaroslav, as we have said, was a lover of books and as he wrote many, he deposited them in the Church of St. Sophia which he himself founded. He adorned it with gold and silver and churchly vessels and in it the usual hymns are raised to God at the customary seasons. He founded other churches in the cities and districts, appointing priests and paying them out of his personal fortune. He bade them teach the people, since that is the duty which God has prescribed them and to go often into the churches. Priests and Christian laymen thus increased in number.”

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © President and Fellows of Harvard College 1949

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References

1 Cross, S. H., The Russian Primary Chronicle, Harvard Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature xii, Cambridge, 1930, p. 226.Google Scholar

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