За Кирило-Методиевото дело в научната и културната памет
The Cyrillo-Methodian Legacy in Scholarship and Cultural Memory

Summary/Abstract: The remarkable work of the Holy Brothers Cyril and Methodius has been an object of veneration from the 9th century to the present day, and it became an object of scientific study and research much later: initially the research of philologists and historians was fundamental, but later philosophers, theologians, archaeologists, art historians, ethnologists and folklorists, archeographers and bibliographers also contributed, as well as a number of specialists in the field of the so-called auxiliary scientific disciplines of paleography, codicology, filigranology, etc. The life and work of the Apostles to the Slavs, the sources about them, their philological heritage, the Old Bulgarian alphabets, 20 the earliest translations and original works, the educational and literary work of their direct students, the literary, artistic and folklore Cyrillo-Methodian traditions after the 12th century and to this day are part of the Cyrillo-Methodian scientific studies. In 2023 two important academic anniversaries were celebrated: 110 years since the establishment of the Clement Commission (December 12, 1913) and 60 years since the restoration of the Cyrillo-Methodian Commission (May 22, 1963). Along with them, the 1160th anniversary of the establishment of the Cyrillo-Methodian script was also celebrated. The Cyrillo-Methodian Research Center at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences declared 2023 a jubilee year and organized a number of events related to the calendar dates for honoring the Slavic apostles and their students. The most solemn event was the international scientific conference “Cyrillo-Methodian Legacy in Scholarship and Cultural Memory”. It was organized within the framework of the National Scientific Program “Development and Promotion of Bulgarian Studies Abroad” of the Ministry of Education and Science. The conference was held in Sofia from May 22 to 24, 2023 and was attended by 40 Bulgarian scholars from various humanitarian institutes at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and departments of the universities in Sofia, Shumen and Blagoevgrad, as well as 25 foreign scholars from 11 countries – from Austria, Great Britain, India, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, USA, Slovakia, Ukraine and the Czech Republic, representing dozens of universities and scientific centers around the world. A total of 60 reports were read and the topic of the Cyrillo-Methodian work was covered in very wide temporal, territorial and semantic boundaries: from the direct early Cyrillo-Methodian sources, through which the foundations of the autonomous interdisciplinary humanitarian field of Cyrillo-Methodian studies are laid, to the late traditions related to the use of the Cyrillic alphabet and the affirmation of the national identities of the Slavic peoples. This trend has been maintained in the present volume: it contains 27 articles by 29 authors – all of whom participated in the conference. Their research, read as reports in 2023 and published as extended scholarly works now, in 2025, reflects the peculiarities of Cyrillo-Methodian research of recent years.

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