Epiphanius the Wise

Epiphanius at work, miniature from a 16th-century manuscript

Epiphanius the Wise (Russian: Епифаний Премудрый, romanized: Epifany Premudry; died c. 1420) was a Russian Orthodox monk and hagiographer.[1][2] He was a disciple of Sergius of Radonezh.[3]

Historian Serge Aleksandrovich Zenkovsky wrote that Epiphanius, along with Stephen of Perm, Sergius of Radonezh, and the painter Andrei Rublev, signified "the Russian spiritual and cultural revival of the late fourteenth and early fifteenth century".[4]

  1. ^ Biographical Index of the Middle Ages. Walter de Gruyter. 1 March 2011. p. 345. ISBN 978-3-11-091416-0.
  2. ^ Owen, Weldon (9 October 2012). The Book of Saints: A Day-By-Day Illustrated Encyclopedia. Weldon Owen International. p. 112. ISBN 978-1-68188-719-7.
  3. ^ Janet Martin, Medieval Russia, 980-1584, (Cambridge, 1995), p. 230
  4. ^ Serge A. Zenkovsky, Medieval Russia's Epics, Chronicles, and Tales, Revised Edition, (New York, 1974), p. 259