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Of meat, men and property: the troubled career of a convert nun in eighteenth-century Kiev

Sharipova, Liudmyla

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The article is based on the case study of Sister Asklipiodata, a Jewish convert to Christianity, who became a member of the monastic community in one of Kiev’s Orthodox convents in the second half of the eighteenth century. It explores the ways in which the non-communal way of life in Eastern Orthodox convents impacted both upon the praxis of monastic existence within the convent walls, and the relations with the secular world without. Parallel to this consideration of a lasting centrality of property ownership in Orthodox female monasticism, the article addresses the largely neglected question of Jewish assimilation in the Russian Empire prior to the Partitions of Poland (1772–93), which brought the sizeable Jewish population of the Commonwealth’s eastern borderlands in immediate contact with the Russian state.

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Sharipova, L. (2018). Of meat, men and property: the troubled career of a convert nun in eighteenth-century Kiev. Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 69(2), 278-299. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022046917000768

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jan 6, 2017
Online Publication Date Sep 5, 2017
Publication Date Apr 30, 2018
Deposit Date Feb 8, 2017
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Journal of Ecclesiastical History
Print ISSN 0022-0469
Electronic ISSN 1469-7637
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 69
Issue 2
Pages 278-299
DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022046917000768
Keywords Monastery, communal living, nun, property relations, Orthodox Church, Ukrainian Hetmanate, Poland, Jewish, Kiev, Russian Empire, eighteenth century
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/841714
Publisher URL https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-ecclesiastical-history/article/of-meat-men-and-property-the-troubled-career-of-a-convert-nun-in-eighteenthcentury-kiev/97BBD46EF38E62769B5A6169C4AACB00

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