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The Medieval Church · c. 1160–1182

The Sermons and Prayers

Kirill of Turov · c. 1130–c. 1182

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What it is

Festal sermons of high rhetorical polish, giving speeches to biblical figures and describing spring as the resurrection of the world.

Why it lasted

The finest preaching of early Rus, and evidence that Byzantine rhetorical training had taken root in the Slavic north.

Where to read it

Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.

These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.

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