Learning Outcomes
With the successful completion of the lectures the student will be able to:
- identify the evolution of the literature of the Orthodox Slavic world from the creation of the Slavic alphabet until modern times through the simultaneous presentation of the historical events that marked its course.
- distinguish the closeness between the literature of the Orthodox Slavic world and the literature of the medieval Greek world and the relations between them.
- research the most important works of the medieval literature of the Orthodox Slavs and the specific bibliography.
Course Content (Syllabus)
Its 4 hours course. The history and evolution of the Literature of the Slavic world from its beginnings to the modern times is presented in the 3 hours of the course "Ecclesiastical Literature of the Slavs". More specific, the work of Saints Cyril and Methodius in the Slavic world, the creation of the Slavic alphabet and the translation into the Slavic language of the first literature is presented. The history and development of the Bulgarian, Russian and Serbian Literature, which were the direct heirs of the Cyrillomethodian heritage from the 9th century until modern times is also presented. In the 4th hour ecclesiastical sources - greek and slavic - are studied concerned in the slavic literature and its history.
Additional bibliography for study
Obolensky D., The Byzantine Commonwealth. Eastern Europe, 500-1453, Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1971
Μeyendorff J., Byzantium and the Rise of Russia. A Study of Byzantino – Russian Relations in the Fourteenth Century, Cambridge University Press 1981
Podskalsky G., Theologische Literatur des Mittelalters in Bulgarien und Serbien, 865-1459, München 2000
-------------, Средновековна теолошка књижевност у бугарскоj и србиjи (865-1459), Београд 2010
Tachiaos A.-Em., Cyril and Methodius of Thessalonica: The Acculturation of the Slavs, St. Vladimir's Seminary Press 2001
История на българската средновековна литература, съст. Ан. Милтенова, София 2009
Петканова Д., История на българската литература. българската средновековна литература, 4и издание, София 2001