The Tale of Boiarynia Morozova: A Seventeenth-Century Religious Life

by Margaret Ziolkowski

Margaret Ziolkowski's book comprises a thorough introduction to, skillful translation of, and erudite commentary on the four-hundred-year-old Tale of Boiarynia Morozova. The story of Feodosia Morozova, a member of the Russian aristocratic elite and a major participant in the Russian Othodox Schism, describes one of the most violent ruptures in religious history-the complete destabilization of the bastions of church and society in seventeenth-century...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739101773
• ISBN13: 9780739101773
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.0"