The Concept "Patience" in the Most Ancient Russian Chronicles

Student: Akimovashtyrkova Mariia

Educational Programme: Philology (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2021

This diploma is dedicated to the “lexica of patience”. Many other Christian virtues have been investigated but this one is still not sufficiently studied. Meanwhile all Christian virtues are particular and valuable as a subject for analysis in the Medieval Russian narrative. The study is concentrated on the search of chronicle contexts where the “lexica of patience” is mentioned. Moreover, it demonstrates the great number of contextual formulas and the connection of patience with suffering, salvation and humility. In addition, the work includes the semantics of humility and its lexemes` contexts. The diploma has the corpus of patience lexemes and suffering lexemes with classification according to contexts. In order to research patience more complete, The Story about Boris and Gleb, The Hagiography of Feodosiy Pecherskiy and Kievo-Pecherskiy Patericon are also analysed.

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