The literary custom of Ancient Russia (XI-XVII centuries)

Old Russian literature is usually considered evolutionarily, from the point of view of the main stages of its history. However, already in the XX century. They made attempts to present medieval books as a system of the whole. The book, offered to the attention of the reader, is not devoted to evolution, but the unchanged essence of East Slavic art. They followed this custom, but they did not write about it. Russian medieval literature did not develop a system of strict rules, did not know theoretical rhetoric and normative poetics. Scribes of the XI - XVII centuries. They turned to literary custom insofar as they learned special work techniques and followed exemplary texts, being simultaneously expressors of original semantic intentions. The author of a review-analytical study invites readers to touch the secrets of skill and literary technology of the Middle Ages.
The book is designed for students, graduate students and teachers of humanitarian faculties and universities, addressed philologists, historians, culturalists and a wide audience.
2nd edition, supplemented