1st Edition
An Orthodox Festival Book in the Habsburg Empire Zaharija Orfelin's Festive Greeting to Mojsej Putnik (1757)
By Jelena Todorovic
Copyright 2006
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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A transcription and translation of Zaharje Orfelin's 1757 festival book, Festive Greeting to Mojsej Putnik, this book is one of the most comprehensive accounts of the festival life of the Orthodox hierarchy in the Habsburg lands. While the Festive Greeting remained just an outline for the spectacle and was never publicly performed in its entirety, it remains a fascinating embodiment of Church... Read more
Contents: Foreword; The creation and the political structure of the Archbishopric of Karlovci; The artist and the honorand; To glorify and to instruct; The fashioning of the Church triumphant; The labyrinth of the world; Time-space-action-or is there a unity?; Transcription and translation of Orfelin's Festive Greeting; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Jelena Todorovic is based at the Theory Department Faculty of Fine Arts and at the Scene Design Interdisciplinary Department both at University of the Arts Belgrade, Serbia.
’Todorovic's monograph is a useful and rare contribution to the study of artistic and literary production in the mid eighteenth-century Balkans...’ Journal of Ecclesiastical History
