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

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Pages: 38-58
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54664/IVVU7145

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.

Keywords:

Triodion homilies, Athanasius of Alexandria, novoizvodnye miscellanea, Euthymious of Tarnovo

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