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The article attempts to extract textual and extratextual planes on which representatives of
fauna made their mark in the folklore of the South Slavs, mainly Bulgarians; in their oral literature,
rituals, and beliefs, juxtaposed with selected Apocrypha, primarily from the Protoevangelium of
James, confronted with the Scripture. The analysed texts (legends, folk tales, ritual songs performed during...
The New Testament apocryphon Didascalia Domini is one of the least
known. Its original was written in Greek, according to François Nau, at the end of the 7th century. Relatively early it was translated into Old Church Slavonic. At present five copies of this translation
are known, stretching from the 13th to the 15th century. Three of them belong to the Serbian redaction,
one each to the Russian...
The paper examines the Frankish presence in Byzantium during 11th century. It was stressed that the mentioned period was the time of a great influx of westerners to the East. At first,
most of them visited Constantinople as pilgrims during return journey from the Holy Land. The
author points out that the term Franks (Frankoi) was basically attributed to the Eastern Franks/Germans,
while in the...
This paper discusses the use of the names of heresies: bogomilism, messalianism and the heresy of autoproscoptae in 14th century Bulgarian sources. The author underlines that the names of bogomilism and messalianism do not always refer to dualism. Two wider unknown examples of
such use of the name “messalinism” are recalled. In the Pseudo-Zonaras Nomocanon (CIAI 1160), the name “messalianism” is...
The present study discusses the role of salt-cured meat in dietetics, medicine and gastronomy
demonstrated mainly in ancient and Byzantine medical (Galen, Oribasius, Aetius of Amida,
Anthimus, Alexander of Tralles and Paul of Aegina) and agronomic (Cato, Varro, Columella, Palladius, Geoponica) sources written between 2nd and 10th century A.D. The part dealing with culinary
application was also...
The paper presents an unstudied text with the name of the Apostle Andrew in the miscellany
of 15th c., now Muz.10272, Rashka orthography. The text (with traces of archaic archetype) is a unique copy of the compilation. The history of the manuscript is very interesting, because it belonged
to the A. Hilferding collection in the past. The aim of the author is to propose a preliminary
analysis of...
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