Of Meat, Men and Property: The Troubled Career of a Convert Nun in Eighteenth-Century Kiev
The article is based on the case study of Sr Asklipiodata, a Jewish convert to Christianity, who became a member of the monastic community in one of Kiev's Orthodox convents in the second half of the eighteenth century. It explores the ways in which the non-communal way of life in Eastern Ortho...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2018]
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The journal of ecclesiastical history
Year: 2018, Volume: 69, Issue: 2, Pages: 278-299 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Kiev
/ Orthodox Church
/ Nun
/ Property
/ Judaism
/ Woman convert
/ History 1750-1800
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| IxTheo Classification: | BH Judaism CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations CH Christianity and Society KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBK Europe (East) KCA Monasticism; religious orders KDF Orthodox Church |
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| Summary: | The article is based on the case study of Sr Asklipiodata, a Jewish convert to Christianity, who became a member of the monastic community in one of Kiev's Orthodox convents in the second half of the eighteenth century. It explores the ways in which the non-communal way of life in Eastern Orthodox convents impacted both upon the praxis of monastic existence within the convent walls, and relations with the secular world without. Parallel to this consideration of a lasting centrality of property ownership in Orthodox female monasticism, the article addresses the largely neglected question of Jewish assimilation in the Russian Empire prior to the Partitions of Poland (1772-93), which brought the sizeable Jewish population of the Commonwealth's eastern borderlands into close contact with the Russian state. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-7637 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of ecclesiastical history
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0022046917000768 |