Reading books - a Christian virtue and hagiographic topos in the Old Bulgarian literature Cover Image

Чьтение книгъ – християнска добродетел и агиографски топос в старобългарската книжнина
Reading books - a Christian virtue and hagiographic topos in the Old Bulgarian literature

Author(s): Greta Stoyanova
Subject(s): Bulgarian Literature
Published by: Шуменски университет »Епископ Константин Преславски«
Keywords: Old Bulgarian literature; Christian virtues; hagiography

Summary/Abstract: Reading books in the old Bulgarian literature clearly seems to be the Christian story, functioning as hagiographic topos adopted by fathers of the church in literature of the Slavonic world and is undoubtedly introduced by the Long life of St. Kiril. This trend is also marked by the author in the Speech of a monk was carved into the reading of the books (of the Izbornik from 1076) and proves that in many aspects for Slavic bookmen is generating а model.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 13
  • Page Range: 75-88
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Bulgarian