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John of Damascus is one of the most remarkable figures among the Church Fathers. The reception of his theological and philosophical works among the Orthodox Slavs in the Middle Ages has been comparatively well researched - unlike that of his homiletic works. This book is devoted to four Slavonic translations of three homilies of John of Damascus dedicated to the Mother of God. It offers the first comprehensive, complex study of the translations of John's First and Third Homilies on the Dormition and his Homily on the Nativity of the Mother of God, preserved in South Slavic hagiographic and homiletic collections. The problems related to the textual tradition and translational peculiarities of these works have a central place in this study. It is supplemented with an edition of the Slavonic translations with parallel Greek text, as well as with a Slavonic-Greek and Greek-Slavonic list of content words.
List of contents
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
About the author
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.
