John of Damascusʼ Marian Homilies in Mediaeval South Slavic Literatures

ISBN-13: 9783631833902 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 540 str.

Tsvetomira Danova

Opis

This book is devoted to four Slavonic translations of three homilies of John of Damascus dedicated to the Mother of God. It examines their translational peculiarities and textual history. It provides an edition of the Church Slavonic translations and a Slavonic-Greek and Greek-Slavonic list of content words.

Spis treści

John of Damascus, Marian homilies, Reception of Byzantine literature among the Balkan Slavs, Medieval South Slavonic Literature, Critical edition, Slavonic-Greek and Greek-Slavonic indices verborum

O autorze

Tsvetomira Danova graduated from St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia with MAs in Theology and Bulgarian Philology. She earned a PhD in Bulgarian Literature in 2014 and has since been Chief Assistant Professor at the Cyrillo-Methodian Research Centre at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. She has done a research stay at Humboldt University in Berlin. Her research interests are in the field of mediaeval Slavic literature and, more specifically, in the reception of Byzantine literature and theology among the Balkan Slavs.