Notes on the Contributors


Sergey A. Ivanov (b. 1956) is a scholar at the Institute of Slavonic and Balkan Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. He is the author of numerous articles on Byzantine and Bulgarian history and culture, Byzanto-Slav relations, and the co-editor of several translations and commentaries. He has recently published the monograph Vizantiiskoe iurodstvo (Holy Foolishness in Byzantium, 1994).

Jostein Børtnes (b. 1937) is professor of Russian literature at the University of Bergen, Norway, and, together with Tomas Hägg (professor of Classical philology at the University of Bergen) head of the project Rhetoric and the Translation of Culture. His latest books include Visions of Glory. Studies in Early Russian Hagiography (1988), Russisk litteraturteori sub specie semioticae (Russian Literary Theory Sub Specie Semioticae, 1992), and Polyfoni og karneval. Essays om litteratur (Polyphony and Carneval. Essays on Literature, 1993).

Per-Arne Bodin (b. 1949) is lecturer in Slavonic Studies at the University of Stockholm, Sweden. He is the author of several studies in Polish and Russian literary and cultural history. Among his recent publications are Världen som ikon (The World as Icon, 1988), Den oväntade glädjen (The Unexpected Joy, 1991), Ryssland och Europa. En kulturhistorisk studie (Russia and Europe. A Study in Cultural History, 1993), and "Ur djupen ropar jag" - kyrka och teologi i 1900-talets Ryssland ("Out of the depths I cry" - Church and Theology in 20th-Century Russia, 1993).