HIS250Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Kupala Night, Rusalka, Vodyanoy
Document Summary
Sept. 21, 2016: 1237-1240 important years mongol take over. Vladimir the great: christianized the people consolidation of power. He was choosing between 4 different religions and settled on orthodox christianity. 2 monks were famous for bringing the written language: 827 and 826 created slavic alphabet, translated ecclesiastic literature so that. They also translated it to russian: not physically in russia, state seral and methodeous not authors, but relevant because they gave the written word to the region. Blending in this case of paegan religions and monotheistic religion: various populations were christianized, seen as religion of elites. Flourished in cities and among nobles: rural, peasants and farmers accepted being baptized and going to church and holidays, but they still resisted in worshipping old paegan rituals. Not a replacement of their previously held beliefs, but it was an addition to it. Ivan kupala day feast of st. john the baptist: coincides with summer solstice.
