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Good with no dust jacket. 0916458520. Xcv, 267 pp. Bibliography, index of biblical references, index of Greek terms, index of Slavonic terms, index. Map. Octavo. Glossy beige card soft covers with a medieval image in pink. Slight corner curl of the covers, small bump at back bottom corner, interior has signature of a Ukrainian scholar, otherwise clean and unmarked. The texts (in English) have notes underneath. Good usable copy. "Among the finest products of Kievan Rus literature were the Lives of the first Rus saints, including Olga, Volodimer, Boris and Gleb, Feodosij, and Avraamij of Smolensk. Drawing on Byzantine, Church Slavonic, and Western literary traditions, the Rus hagiographers fashioned religious narratives that were at once traditional and tailored specifically for an East Slavic audience. These hagiographic works are now collected and translated into English in a single volume for the first time. Paul Hollingsworth's introduction examines the hagiographers' literary portrayals of the saints against the background of political, ecclesiastical, and cultural developments of Kievan Rus"; Harvard Library of Early Ukrainian Literature; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 267 pages.