It then proceeds to analyze Russian holy foolery, which borrowed some elements from the Byzantine model, but also reinterpreted it quite a bit.
The book also considers other phenomena similar to holy foolery, in the Western medieval world, as well as the Islamic one. Don't have an account?
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