Thesis
The heresy of the Judaizers and the problem of the Russian reformation
- Abstract:
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In the year 1504 the grand prince Ivan III convened a Council of the Church to try several Muscovites and Novgorodians accused of heresy. The Council found the men guilty and they were burnt at the stake in public executions in Novgorod and Moscow. The 1504 trial and execution was the last of three trials of a group of men accused of a 'judaizing' heresy and known to historians as the Zhidovstvuyushchie, or Judaizers.
The first trial of the heretics had taken place in 1486...
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Authors
- Publication date:
- 1979
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
- Language:
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English
- Subjects:
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- Local pid:
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- Source identifiers:
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602344798
- Deposit date:
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2013-01-21
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- Copyright holder:
- Howlett, J.R.
- Copyright date:
- 1979
- Notes:
- The digital copy of this thesis has been made available thanks to the generosity of Dr Leonard Polonsky
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