Наблюдения върху състава на късносредновековните южнославянски небогослужебни сборници
Observations on the Composition of the Late Medieval Non-Liturgical Miscellanies

(Some Prospects of Their Computer Analysis)

Summary/Abstract: The paper describes some results of the investigation of medieval non-liturgical miscellanies with the Template for Slavic Manuscripts (TSM), which is used for the aims of the project Repertory of medieval Slavonic literature and letters. The investigation is based on 62 miscellanies from the 13th to the end of the 19th - the beginning of the 20th century. The information, presented in electronic form, about a relatively great massif of late non-liturgical miscellanies, afforded the opportunity some statistical data to be collected on the composition and contents of these miscellanies as a whole. The basic problems examinated here were the following: the gradual destruction of the hierarchy of the "high" and "low" genres; their penetration into miscellanies, different in their contents, up to their complete functional alignment in the late manuscripts; the importance of the historical context for the appearence of new literary works and genres in late miscellanies with mixed contents and for the increase of the interest in one or other type of them. The development of the interest in the hagiographic genre for non-liturgical usage in a broad chronological range of six centuries was traced back on the basis of the prepared indexes.

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