Faculty note: Kevin M. Kain has chapter published

Senior Lecturer Kevin M. Kain (Humanitie, History) recently had his chapter “Deacon Feodor Ivanov as a Follower of Iosif Volotskii or The Enlightener and ‘The Wolf and Predator… Nikon’,” in David Goldfrank, Valleria Nollan and Jennifer Spock eds., Iosif Volotskii and Eastern Christianity: Essays across Seventeen Centuries” published by New Academia Publishing. The chapter analyzes how and why 17th-century Russian religious dissenters employed the ideals of monasticism and iconography upheld in St. Iosif Volotskii’s The Enlightener (1490-1515) in order to condemn the clerical and secular elite of their day.