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

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This volume offers an interpretation of the image of Divine Wisdom, traditionally associated with the Sophia Cathedral in Novgorod. Kriza argues that the figure stands for the Orthodox Church, in response to events in the fifteenth century. Cover 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 I. II. III. 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