OLD RUSSIAN TESTAMENTS OF THE XV–XVII CENTURIES IN HAGIOGRAPHIC NARRATION
T.V. Panich
Keywords: testaments, clerical hierarchs, hagiographic texts
Abstract
The article is devoted to the function of Old Russian testament genre in the hagiographical writings. The peculiarities of testaments are analyzed, their role in hagiographic narrations is defi ned. Testaments of famous clerical hierarchs of the XIV– XVII centuries attached to their biographies are used as the material of research.
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