Отношението към убийството в средновековното българско общество. Οὐ φονεύσεις (Ex. 20:15, etc.; Didaché, 2); Аще кто раꙁбои сътворит (Син. евх.)
The Attitude Towards Murder in Medieval Bulgarian Society. Οὐ φονεύσεις (Ex. 20:15, etc.; Didaché, 2); Аще кто раꙁбои сътворит (Син. евх.)

Summary/Abstract: To take away human life is one of the grave sins in the Christian ethical system. This is in discrepancy with our knowledge of the medieval political history of the European Southeast. It swarms with bloody stories and plots, cruelties, tortures, agonizing death characterizing not only the time of war but that of peace as well. It means that in society a shift of the border between the concept of good and that of evil was happening, and that gradually began to affect the human conscience. This is one of the morbid points of Byzantine civilization. In order to keep one's sensitiveness to the moral values and to be in dialogue with one's fellow creatures, the medieval person was forced to apprehend the ambivalence, i. e. the lack of coincidence between reality and the notion of it - as a matter of fact a heavy psychotraumatic situation.

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