Joannicius Georgius Basilovits (1742 – 1821) and his Picture of Monastic Life (An editorial Note)
Joannicius Georgius Basilovits (1742 – 1821) and his Picture of Monastic Life (An editorial Note)

Summary/Abstract: In this edition, we provide the first Slovak academic traslation of the Basilovits´s work Imago vitae monasticae (Cassoviae 1802) that is considered a masterpiece in the filed of his ascetical work. Critical translation from Latin into Slovak and original transliterated Latin text are preceded by an analysis of the ascetical work with an emphasis on the linguistic aspect. Philological research of a relatively extensive text and dealing with several specifics of the source and target language pointed to translation complexity in terms of theological concepts and facts in the ecclesiastical and religious context. In our study, we focused mainly on the language of the Neo-Latin text from the point of view of orthography, morphology, syntax, and lexis. An important part is also the apparatus of sources that inspired Basilovis when writing his work. Based on the research of the source, it is necessary to emphasize the fact that the work is a kind of culmination of the author´s ascetical literature about Basilian monastic tradition in our territory. It should be added that Basilovits was the first author paying such detailed attention to Eastern monasticism in Slovakia and the entire Subcarpathian region.

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