07 — Reception

How the Life and its saint traveled: the manuscript diffusion that carried the text across the Byzantine and Slavic worlds, with its immense Slavic popularity, and Andrew’s place in the long arc of holy folly from the Byzantine salos to the Russian yurodivy.

Tradition: Byzantine (Constantinopolitan); reception chiefly Russian Orthodox

These files trace the afterlife the earlier sections presuppose — the diffusion behind the Pokrov feast and the fool tradition — and connect Andrew to the Russian fools whose collections this repository holds (see St. Basil of Moscow, St. Xenia of Petersburg).

Files

File	Description
andrew-in-byzantium-and-among-the-slavs.md	The manuscript diffusion; the modest Byzantine and immense Slavic receptions
the-fool-tradition-after-andrew.md	Andrew’s place in the arc of holy folly, from salos to yurodivy

See Also

• The Name and the Cult — the asymmetry of the two receptions
• The Holy Fool of Byzantium — the tradition Andrew stands in and transmits