Athanasius of Alexandria’s Triodion Homilies in the 14th Century Bulgarian Homiliaries Cover Image

Триодные гомилии Псевдо-Афанасия Александрийского в новоизводных болгарских гомилиариях
Athanasius of Alexandria’s Triodion Homilies in the 14th Century Bulgarian Homiliaries

Author(s): Vyacheslav V. Litvienko, Irina M. Gritsevskaya
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, History, Language and Literature Studies, Cultural history, History of Church(es), Studies of Literature, Middle Ages, Theology and Religion, Bulgarian Literature, 13th to 14th Centuries
Published by: Великотърновски университет „Св. св. Кирил и Методий”
Keywords: Triodion homilies; Athanasius of Alexandria; novoizvodnye miscellanea; Euthymius of Tarnovo
Summary/Abstract: Among the texts known to the Slavic people and ascribed to Athanasius of Alexandria there are seven that we find included in the medieval Triodion homiliaries. With the exception of one homily (i.e. Homily on the Betrayal of Jude), all of them were part of the Triodion Panegeric (Hilandar MS, Ohio, HM.SMS.404), whose origin is connected to the Patriarch Euthymius of Tarnovo and whose texts were later included in various Bulgarian, Serbian, and (sometimes) Russian miscellanea up until the XVII century. To have this many texts of Athanasius within one sbornik is quite unusual both for the Church Typica, and for the known Greek Homiliaries. It is suggested that this fact points to a unique feature of the type of Panegirics that were produced in the literary circle of scribes in Tarnovo.

  • Page Range: 38-58
  • Page Count: 21
  • Publication Year: 2019
  • Language: English, Russian, Old Bulgarian