The Life of Simeon the Fool in the edition of Dmitry Rostovsky. Principles of working with sources and methodology of their editing

The book covers the history of the work of St. Dimitri Rostovsky, the author of the legendary village of the Saints, created at the turn of the XVII-XVIII centuries, over one of the agiographic
Monuments included in the summer, fourth, Tom Chetych Mine, - the Life of Simeon Yurody. Creating his editors of this life, the saint, as shown in the work, used the texts of Catholic authors - the collection of Lavrent Suria De Probatis Sanctorum Historiis and Saints Life of the Polish Jesuit Peter Skargi, which critically selecting the information transferred by them and editing information placed in them, In accordance with the many years of work developed by him in the course of the creation of the Chetty Mine poetic, theological and agiological criteria. The editorial editing of the text of the sources of Simeon"s liver seems to open a special, not quite the canonical interpretation of the phenomenon of the scientific Numerous imitation of its type of mobility