John Mason Neale and the Quest for Sobornost

Name: John Mason Neale and the Quest for Sobornost
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ISBN: 9780198263517

ISBN-10: 0198263511

ISBN-13: 9780198263517

Edition: 1994

Authors: Leon Litvack

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John Mason Neale (1818-1866), the famous Victorian divine, hymnologist, novelist, historian, and author of the carol `Good King Wenceslas', was also noted for his interest in ecunemism. This book traces Neale's interest in the Orthodox church, as expressed through his historical writings, translations of Greek hymns, and novels set in the Christian East. The work is based on a wide variety of manuscript and published sources for the subject, and demonstrates how this leading light in the Anglo-Catholic revival acted as an exemplary interpreter of Byzantium and Eastern Orthodoxy to the Victorian England of his day. In the context of the present time, when East-West relations are a topical…

Book details

List price: $190.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/10/1994
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 310
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgements


Abbreviations


Introduction The Life of John Mason Neale



Neale's Orthodox Consciousness



Anglicans and the Eastern Church



Neale and the Eastern Church



Neale's Orientalism



Neale's History Of The Holy Eastern Church



Hymnologist of the Eastern Church



Neale and Orthodox Hymnody



Neale's Translations



Neale's Centos and Adaptations



IOriental Novelist



Neale's Craft of Fiction



Theodora Phranza



The Lily of Tiflis



The Lazar-House of Leros



Short Stories


Epilogue The Legacy of Neale


Glossary


Bibliography


Index