ОБРАЗИ И ЗЛОТО И БОЛЕСТТА В СТАРОБЪЛГАРСКАТА ЛИТЕРАТУРА
Images and Names of Evil and Illness in the Old Bulgarian Literature

Summary/Abstract: This text is trying to answer - by studying Old Bulgarian written sources from the end of the 9th c. and the 10th c. - some important questions such as what the images and manners of evil and illness and their “place” were according to the Bulgarian Christian authors from the abovementioned period (St. Kliment Ohridski, John the Exarch, Cosma Presbyter, Peter the Monk). Christian mental scheme sin-evil-illness/death in its explanation of evil and illness as well as the other ones, sin-flesh-illness/death, or, sin-God’s punishment-illness, thus following the Bible’s and, of course, the Church Father’s ideas that were in concern with its important question for the Medieval man and also for the Christian anthropology and ethics as a whole.

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