THE CULTURAL IDENTITY IN THE LITERARY MODEL ON THE MACEDONIAN LITERATURE IN 15TH CENTURY Cover Image

КУЛТУРНИОТ ИДЕНТИТЕТ НИЗ КНИЖЕВНИОТ МОДЕЛ НА МАКЕДОНСКАТА ЛИТЕРАТУРА ВО XV ВЕК
THE CULTURAL IDENTITY IN THE LITERARY MODEL ON THE MACEDONIAN LITERATURE IN 15TH CENTURY

Author(s): Maja Jakimovska-Tošić
Subject(s): Cultural history, Macedonian Literature, 15th Century
Published by: Институт за македонска литература
Keywords: cultural identity; literary model; medieval literature; mystical theology; orthodox Christianity

Summary/Abstract: The XV century, which is declaring the beginning of the late middle age, characterizes with unique literary tendencies and development features. The literature created in the XV century on the Macedonian ground is a product of the characteristic social, political, spiritual and cultural circumstances, which are defining the concrete historical frame of that period. The literary production in the XV century still contains the characteristic features of the literature of the middle age type, from a philosophical, ideological, structural, stylistic and esthetical point of view. From its beginnings until the XV century, the Byzantium patristic has created an idea with its own recognizable mark and with theological and philosophical emphasis. The works of its eminent representatives were transcribed into Byzantium and Slavic literary centers, in extensive period of time and therefore transcripts diffusion was recorded in the Macedonian record offices for scribal practice from the XV century. At this time, Byzantine has collapsed, but the Orthodox Church kept cherishing its own spiritual tradition reflected as in the tradition of the Hellenic culture and heritage thus in its own personal dogmatic and ascetic-myth doctrines. Byzantine has become a great force because of many patristic achievements of the Fathers of the Church and because of Byzantium spiritual influences over the Hellenic, Slavic and Eastern world. Byzantine brought the religion and the civilization in this part of world. Especially in the XV century, works of the eminent religious writers were more productive in the collections with mixed content, wherein numerous works of many Fathers of the Church went into anthology. Thematic conceptions were particularly important and usually texts with theological-dogmatic orientation, ascetic-monastic topics, eulogy, instructive and polemic orations as part of oratorical prose were included. There are certain features evident in the literature through this century: the production of literature of the medieval type, the primary literary component of the literature, the expressed diversity in genre of the literary system and the literary connection between South-Slavic literatures as a whole.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 57
  • Page Range: 18-25
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Macedonian
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