This paper examines the reception of the topic of Late Antique and Byzantine education in Slavonic translations of hagiographic texts. The educational topos is attested in a great number of saints’ lives. The data preserved in these texts show clearly the continuity between Antiquity and the Middle Ages in terms of organization of the educational…
“Fragments on Cosmography” is a Slavonic translation of a Byzantine compilation comprising over forty paragraphs devoted to various natural sciences including geography, meteorology, astronomy, and astrology. Copies of this text are preserved in eighteen Slavonic manuscripts, dating from the 15th to the 17th century. They cоuld be categorised into two distinct groups: South Slavonic and…
Spätantike und byzantinische Psalterkatenen werden seit langer Zeit erforscht, besonders intensiv in den letzten Jahrzehnten. Viel weniger Beachtung haben bisher deren kirchenslawische Übersetzungen gefunden, die spätestens seit dem 12. Jh. sowohl im slawischen Süden (Bulgarien) als auch im Osten (Rus’) im Umlauf waren. Drei solche Katenen wurden immerhin in je einem längeren Aufsatz genügend ausführlich…
While the translations of Metaphrastic hagiography from the 13th and 14th century in South Slavic Europe slowly gains more academic interest from the broader socio-cultural perspective, there are still many questions that arise, when confronted with this literary corpus. First, there is as of yet no systematic approach towards their literary and linguistic characteristics and…
The Byzantine Chronicle of George the Monk (Hamartolus), written in the mid-9th century or in the second half of the 9th century, enjoyed great popularity in medieval literature and has survived to this day in several dozen manuscripts, representing many versions of the text. Most of the preserved Greek manuscripts are traditionally classified as the…