The Holy Fool in Byzantium and Russia

Papers Presented at a Symposium Arranged by the Norwegian Committee of Byzantine Studies, 28 August at the University of Bergen

Contents

Foreword

Sergey A. Ivanov (Moscow):
From "Secret Servants of God" to "Fools for Christ's Sake"
in Byzantine Hagiography

Jostein Børtnes (Bergen):
Dostoevskian Fools - Holy and Unholy

Per-Arne Bodin (Stockholm)
Lev Tolstoy and Folly in Christ

Notes on the Contributors