About the Old Bulgarian "Story of the Nazi Martyrs" and "The Epistle of the Saints to the Grand Duke Vasily Vasilievich" Cover Image
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О древнеболгарском «Рассказе о зографских мучениках» и «Послание святогорцев великому князю Василию Васильевичу»
About the Old Bulgarian "Story of the Nazi Martyrs" and "The Epistle of the Saints to the Grand Duke Vasily Vasilievich"

Author(s): István Ferincz
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Customs / Folklore, Studies of Literature, Middle Ages, Bulgarian Literature, 13th to 14th Centuries, Eastern Orthodoxy
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: Old Bulgarian literature; monasteries on Mount Athos (Zographos); church union; martyr monks; epistle to Russian grand prince Vasily II;

Summary/Abstract: The “Narrative about the Zographian Martyrs” («Разказ за зографските мъче- ници») is a monument of Old Bulgarian literature dating from the late 13th c. The paper examines the historical circumstances underlying the work, the literary characteristics of the “Narrative”, and its impact on later orthodox antiunionist literature.

  • Issue Year: 52/2007
  • Issue No: 1(2)
  • Page Range: 101-106
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Russian