Life of Alexander Nevsky
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Life of Alexander Nevsky | |
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Russian: Житие Александра Невского | |
Language | Old East Slavic and Old Church Slavonic |
Life of Alexander Nevsky (
It describes the life and achievements of
Textual history
Iurii Begunov (1965), basing himself on thirteen stand-alone manuscripts,
According to scholar Donald Ostrowski (2008), the original text of the Life of Alexander Nevsky was a secular military narrative, written by a layman in the late 13th century, who made no mention of "the Suzdalian Land", nor of "the Rus' Land".[1] Some hagiographic motifs would be inserted by a cleric a century later, but still no reference to "Suzdalian/Rus' Land".[1] Ostrowski argued that the earliest redaction of the Life should be dated to the mid-15th century, because it used the Novgorod First Chronicle Older Recension as a source.[1] It would be this editor who added an allusion to Volodimer I of Kiev's conversion of "the Rus' Land", and two mentions of "the Suzdalian Land", one of them the setting sun passage.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e Halperin 2022, p. 55.
- ^ a b Halperin 2022, p. 54.
External links
- Translation into modern Russian by the Federal Fund of Science Courses
- Audio recording of the full text
Bibliography
- Halperin, Charles J. (2022). The Rise and Demise of the Myth of the Rus' Land (PDF). Leeds: Arc Humanities Press. p. 107. ISBN 9781802700565.