Nikolov (2003) 'A Useful Tale about the Latins': An Old Bulgarian Translation of a Lost Byzantine Anti-Latin Text of the End of 11th

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'A Useful Tale about the Latins': An Old Bulgarian Translation of a Lost Byzantine Anti-Latin Text of the End of 11th - Early 12th Century

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CONTRIBUTORS:

Author:

Nikolov, Angel (Sofia University Saint Kliment Ohridski)

JOURNAL:

Scripta & e-Scripta, 1(2003), 99 - 119.

YEAR:

2003

PUB TYPE:

Journal Article

SUBJECT(S):

History of Medieval Bulgaria, Byzantine polemical literature, Orthodoxy, Old Bulgarian literature, medieval Slavic manuscripts

DISCIPLINE:

History

HTTP:

http://rapidshare.com/files/146372506/Povest_polezna.zip

LANGUAGE:

English

PUB ID:

103-393-476 (Last edited on 2009/07/03 06:54:03 GMT-6)

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ABSTRACT:
'A Useful Tale about the Latins' (full title 'Povest' poleznaa o latinoh kogda otluchishasja ot gr''k'' i ot svjatyja bozhija c'rkve i kako iz''obrjatoshe sebe eresi ezhe oprjasnochnaa sluzhiti i hulu ezhe na duha svjatogo') is a detailed historical account of the split between Rome and the Eastern Churches and belongs to the underresearched corpus of Slavic translations of Byzantine anti-Catholic which formed gradually between the middle of 11th and the end of 14th C. The publication presents my preliminary remarks and conclusions, based on the my observations on nine unpublished Bulgarian, Serbian and Moldavian copies of the Tale from the second half of 14th - 17th C. See also the Russian copy of the text from the dawn of 15th C., edited in: Popov, A. Istoriko-literaturnyj obzor drevnerusskih polemicheskih sochinenij protiv latynjan (XI - XV v.). Moskva, 1875, 178-188. The manuscript material allows me to state confidently that the Slavic translation of the lost Greek Tale about the Latins (compiled at the end of 11th C.) was prepared in the Bulgarian lands no later than the very beginning of the 12th C. and was very soon transferred into Kievan Russia. I am inclined to assume that the appearance of this translation of an important anti-Latin text is evidence of the desire of the Byzantine ecclesiastical authorities to strengthen the loyalty of their Bulgarian flock towards Orthodoxy and the Empire in the tumultuous years around the First Crusade. Although the it is beyond our capacity to relate the emergence of the translation to any particular centre of literary activity, it was most probably created in one of the Bulgarian monasteries on the territory of the archdiocese of Ohrid, which survived throughout 11th - 12th C. If this hypothesis is borne out, the appearance of the Tale in Slavic can be regarded as a clear manifestation of the current during this period trend towards the creation, in the name of Christianity, of a Byzantine-Bulgarian spiritual community in the framework of the entire ecumenical imperial system of Constantinople.

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