Two talks by JAMES H. BILLINGTON
Professor of History at the University of Princeton
1: Old Believers and Media Revolutions
The great schism of the 17th century in the Russian Orthodox Church, when the conservative old believers clashed with a reforming patriarch, was not just a pedantic squabble between theological bigots. It was a crisis in a whole culture's style of perceiving and communicating.
(The Tradition of the Intellectuals: Friday, 7.30 pm)