The article examines the veneration of Archangel Michael in Kyiv context idea capital Rus' as New Jerusalem. This concept was influenced by adoption Christianity and reflected a number written architectural monuments. In them, people recognized themselves new way world history organized their living space accordingly. author tries to show that emergence Michael’s cult one elements supporting th...

In the early middle ages, a community of Irish monks constructed monastery outpost on lonely Skellig Michael just offshore County Kerry. These skelligs served as mysterious boundary land where known met unknown, worldly wrangled with spiritual, and very parameters humanity itself were brought into question. Amid period great transition in society, willfully abandoned luxuries developing Western...

This research work has been done in the field of current literary direction related to study local texts, variety which is national text. The text considered by authors article as a containing information for reconstruction reader / researcher nationally specific socio-cultural space people. studies translations, namely, philological analysis Mari Russian translations given article. materials a...

The population of Staroe Surkino village, which is part the Almetyevsk District Republic Tatarstan, one largest religious communities unbaptized Chuvash on territory beyond Kama. villagers have preserved ancestral religion their ancestors, a special ethnic identity, as well many features traditional culture associated with so-called paganism. One most striking and revealing elements religion, a...

To a large extent, the history of education in Middle Ages Western Europe is church education. The dominated and participated whole process education, which very rare peculiar world synonymous with darkness ignorance everyone’s original cognition. Through unremitting efforts historians, people’s evaluation has gradually changed. purpose monastic was to train missionaries so that could take fait...

Between the second, third and fourth centuries the Christian Church produced biographies chronicling the pious undertakings of monks. These hagiographies borrowed from preexisting Greek biographies to distinguish the Christian monk from the pagan holy man. Patricia Cox Miller’s Biography in Late Antiquity: The Quest for the Holy Man demonstrates how hagiographers adaptation of Greek biographies...