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XIII–XIV-century sermons

Required readings

Primary

Zenkovsky, Serge A., ed. Serapion of Vladimir: Sermon on the merciless heathens and Serapion of Vladimir: Sermon on omens. Medieval Russia’s epics, chronicles and tales. Revised and enlarged edition. NY: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1974. 243–48.

Secondary

Gudzy, N. K. The oratorical sermon. History of early Russian literature, tr. by Susan Wilbur Jones. NY: Macmillan, 1949. 84–98.
Halperin, Charles .J. The Tatar Yoke: the image of the Mongols in Medieval Russia. Corrected edition. Bloomington: Slavica Publishers, 2009. 76–82.

Presentation

Serapion the venerable (slides by Dinara Garifullina)

Recommended reading

Bogert, Ralph. On the rhetorical style of Serapion Vladimirskij. Medieval Russian culture. California Slavic studies XII. Los Angeles: University of California, 1984. 280–310.

For information about rhetorical devices, such as those discussed in Bogert’s article, see:

Burton, Gideon. The forest of rhetoric (silva rhetoricae). http://rhetoric.byu.edu
Lanham, Richard A. A handlist of rhetorical terms. Second edition. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. 2012.