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Apocrypha

Required readings

Primary

• Zenkovsky, Serge A. Apocrypha. Medieval Russia’s epics, chronicles, and tales. Revised and enlarged edition. NY: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1974. 153–66.

Secondary

• Constantinou, Eugenia Scarvelis. The canon of scripture in the Orthodox Church. The canon of the Bible in the churches of the East. Ed. Vahan S. Hovhanessian. New York: Peter Lang, 2012. 1–6.
• Lotman, Yuri M. Geographical space in Russian medieval texts. Universe of the mind: a semiotic theory of culture. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2000 (1990). 171–77.

Recommended readings

• Hitchcock, Donald Raymond. The appeal of Adam to Lazarus in Hell. New York: Mouton, 1979.
• Konrad, Alexander N. Forbidden literature in old Russia: Its rivalry with holy writings. Old Russia and Byzantium: The Byzantine and oriental origins of Russian culture. Vienna: Wilhelm Braumüller, 1972. 35–67.