The Religious Reverence to the Saint of Rila in the Context of the Ottoman Conquests in the Balkans Cover Image

Религиозната почит към Рилския светец в контекста на османските завоевания на Балканите
The Religious Reverence to the Saint of Rila in the Context of the Ottoman Conquests in the Balkans

Author(s): Venelin Grudkov
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, History, Middle Ages, Special Historiographies:, Theology and Religion, 15th Century, The Ottoman Empire, Eastern Orthodoxy
Published by: Великотърновски университет „Св. св. Кирил и Методий”
Keywords: religious cult; hagiographic prose; Balkan Orthodoxy

Summary/Abstract: The focus of the study are two texts from the hagiographic cycle for Saint John of Rila. The first one is Vladislav Gramatik’s Rila Story, which represents the act of return of the saint’s relics to the Rila Monastery in 1469 as the first attempt for Balkan Orthodox consolidation after the Ottoman conquest. The second text is The Life with a Short Encomium by Demetrius Cantacuzenus where the historical exposition examines the reasons for the destruction of the Balkan Orthodox civilization.

  • Issue Year: 6/2019
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 231-240
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: English, Bulgarian