The Legacy of St. Vladimir

The papers of the international symposium held at St Vladimir's Seminary from 27 September to 1 October 1988 for the seminary's fiftieth anniversary, the year of the millennium of the Baptism of Rus' in 988. Edited by John Breck, John Meyendorff and Eleana Silk and published by St Vladimir's Seminary Press in 1990 (280 pages), the volume collects twenty papers by theologians, historians, pastors and musicologists on the inheritance of Byzantium in Russia and in America. Contributors include Dimitri Obolensky, Jaroslav Pelikan, Thomas Hopko and Leonid Kishkovsky; Meyendorff writes on the passage from Byzantium to the New World.