title: The Eucharistic Subtext of the Martyrdom of Princes Boris and Gleb
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metadata.value: Griffin, Sean
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metadata.value: 2020-05-05T19:17:36Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2020-05-05T19:17:36Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-03
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metadata.value: Griffin S. The Eucharistic Subtext of the Martyrdom of Princes Boris and Gleb. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2020, vol. 65, iss. 1, рр. 5–18.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu02.2020.101
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/17500
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metadata.value: The chroniclers of medieval Rus were monks, who celebrated the divine services of the Byzantine
  church throughout every day. This study analyses how these liturgical rituals shaped the
  creation of the historiographical image of Princes Boris and Gleb in the Rus Primary Chronicle.
  During the eleventh century, chroniclers in Kiev learned about the conversion of the Roman
  Empire by celebrating a series of distinctively Byzantine liturgical feasts. When the services
  concluded, and the clerics sought to compose a native history for their own people, they
  instinctively drew on the sacred stories that they sang at church. In this article, my hypothesis
  is that the chroniclers depicted the martyrdom of Boris in the same way that a priest prepared
  for the Eucharistic sacrifice during the rite of Proskomedia. I also suggest that the chroniclers
  depicted the martyrdom of Gleb as a sacrifice to God, using the same language that the priest
  used to consecrate the Eucharist during the anaphora. Looking at the narrative as a whole,
  therefore, we see that the fundamental structure of the chronicle story is Eucharistic. Boris is
  the priest who prepared the offering, and Gleb is the lamb that is mystically sacrificed. Finally,
  in the conclusion of the article, I hypothesize that there is an important connection between
  the depiction of Vladimir in 996 and the martyrdom of his sons in 1015: a connection that is
  based on the liturgical rite for consecrating a new church.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 65; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Rus Primary Chronicle
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Princes Boris and Gleb
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: liturgy
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: historiography
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Byzantium
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Rus
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Eucharistic Subtext of the Martyrdom of Princes Boris and Gleb
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metadata.value: Article
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