Zniewaga świętości i materialna wartość ikon

• Authors: Aleksandra Sulikowska-Bełczowska

Title variants

EN

Insulting Holliness and the Material Value of the Icons. On the Marigin of the 19th-century Worship of Icons

Abstracts

EN

This paper pertains to the relationship between the veneration of icons and the acts of their insult in nineteenth-century Imperial Russia, the starting point of which are fragments of the polemical writings of Fyodor Dostoevsky (about The Sealed Angel by Nikolai Leskov) and his novel Demons. Dostoevsky often touches on the subject of popular beliefs, reactions to inappropriate behaviour towards icons. He also deals with the issue of the material value of icons. The works of the writer (and other authors) contained descriptions of the feelings evoked by icons and the ways of handling with them among Russians. Therefore, these texts should be taken into account in future studies of nineteenth-century icons.

Keywords

PL

ikony; kult ikon; bezczeszczenie ikon; ikony XIX wieku

EN

icons; veneration of icons; profanation of icons; 19th-century icons

• Publisher: Akademia Supraska
• Journal: Latopisy Akademii Supraskiej
• Year: 2021
• Volume: Obraz - Słowo - Litera
• Issue: 12
• Pages: 71-78

Dates

published

2021

Contributors

author

Aleksandra Sulikowska-Bełczowska

Identifiers

Biblioteka Nauki

2170013