Simon of Iurievets and the Hagiography of Old Russian Holy Fools

P. 269–280.

Ivanov S. A.

The still unpublished Vita of an Old-Russian holy fool Simon of Yurievets is analyzed as the first text  which features a real city lunatic, adjusting him to the pre-existing literary pattern

In book

Holy Foolishness in Russia: New Perspectives ed. Priscilla Hunt and Svitlana Kobets

Bloomington: Slavica Publications, 2011.