On the Prefaces to the Collected Works of Old-Believers
N.S. Guryanova
Keywords: Church reform, schism, Old Believers, manuscript collections, prefaces
Abstract
The author studies forewords to the Old-believers’ collected works coming to conclusion that defenders of the Old Rite used these prefaces in order to achieve the integrity of the text and help the reader adequately perceive the works included in these collections or fragments from the Holy Writ or patristic writings.
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