Abstract
Abstract The “Master of Rhodes Letter”, which tells of the birth of the Antichrist, was one of the most popular eschatological writings in Europe in the 15th century. This pseudo-epistle was translated from Latin into Russian in the middle of the 15th century in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania by Feofil Dederkin, an informant for the Grand Duke of Moscow Vasily Vasilyevich. Previously only one letter from Dederkin to the Grand Duke Vasily Vasilyevich was known: a translation from Latin describing the earthquakes in Italy in 1456. The “Master of Rhodes Letter” was translated a second time into Ukrainian from Latin in the 1630s, during a time when the Orthodox hierarchy in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth resisted the adoption of the Union of Brest. The third translation was made from English into Russian at beginning of the 18th century, and was believed by Metropolitan Job of Novgorod to be the work of Old Believers.
Highlights
In the late Middle Ages in European countries, eschatological sentiments acquired particular relevance
The “Master of Rhodes Letter”, which tells of the birth of the Antichrist, was one of the most popular eschatological writings in Europe in the 15th century
This pseudo-epistle was translated from Latin into Russian in the middle of the 15th century in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania by Feofil Dederkin, an informant for the Grand Duke of Moscow Vasily Vasilyevich
Summary
See catalogue: Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachbereich erschienenen Drucke des 16. A digital copy of the palaeotype is presented on the website of the Berlin Library: https://digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/werkansicht?PPN=PP N799326526&PHYSID=PHYS_0005. 20 The foreword is based on the treatise of Hugh Ripelin of Straßburg “Compendium theologicae veritatis” There is study of Hugh Ripelin’s composition and its influence on “The Book of the Antichrist” by Georg Steer: G. Hugo Ripelin von Strassburg: zur Rezeptions- und Wirkungsgeschichte des “Compendium theologicae Veritatis” im deutschen Spätmittelalter, Texte und Textgeschichte, 2, Tübingen, 1981. For more on this see: McDonald, “Red Jews and the Antichrist as the Jewish Messiah,” pp. For more on this see: McDonald, “Red Jews and the Antichrist as the Jewish Messiah,” pp. 198, 212 (footnote 15)
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