Spiritual Communities in the Bulgarian Middle Ages. Contours of а Possible Research Objects Туре Cover Image

Общностите на духа в Българското средновековие. Контури на един възможен тип изследователски обекти
Spiritual Communities in the Bulgarian Middle Ages. Contours of а Possible Research Objects Туре

Author(s): Dmitry Polyvyannnyy
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, History, Cultural history, Middle Ages, Theology and Religion, 6th to 12th Centuries, 13th to 14th Centuries, 15th Century, Eastern Orthodoxy
Published by: Софийски университет »Св. Климент Охридски«
Keywords: Medieval Bulgarian history; Old Bulgarian literature; spiritual communities

Summary/Abstract: The article represents full written version of inaugural speech in occasion of conferring on the author the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa of Sofia University "St. Clement of Ochrid" delivered in the Aula on Мау, 28th, 2018. It goes to substantiate the notion of spiritual communities ( communities of Spirit) as а research object in medieval Bulgarian culture drawing together contemporary academic approach and medieval understanding of specific type communities, both imagined and really existing. The author reveals specific features of such communities against the background of the intellectual networking communities theory bу British sociologist Randall Collins, the research project "Complexities and Networks in the Medieval Mediterranean and the Near East- СОMMED" bу Austrian Academy of Science and the results of recent studies of Byzantine intellectual life.

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