Студийският манастир в житията на св. Теодор Студит
The Stoudios Monastery in the Vitae of St. Theodore of Stoudios

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the three Byzantine vitae of St. Theodore of Stoudios (759–826), known as Vita A, Vita В and Vita C, with regard to the information about the Stoudios monastery contained in these texts. The information is very similar in all the versions. It includes historical data, data about the hierarchy and the rules of coenobitical life in the monastery, as well as descriptions of the main types of occupation of the monks. The differences between the vitae are mainly lexical, and there is also some variation in the contents and in the comprehensiveness of the narrative, which are due not only to the textual tradition but also to the literary reception of the events from this period of Byzantine history. Particular attention is paid to Vita A and to its Old Bulgarian translation (in the Vygoleksinskij sbornik, a manuscript from the 12th century). Since the early Slavic monasteries were established on the model of the Stoudios monastery, the Slavic termini technici in the vita are given for comparison. A list of the untranslated Greek words in the Old Bulgarian translation is added at the end.

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