I Padri della chiesa nella cultura letteraria paleoslava: modalità di ricezione

Abstract

The Church Fathers in the Old Church Slavonic Literature: Ways of Reception The transfer of the Byzantine Greek culture and, consequently, the reception of the patristic literary heritage among the Slavs took place soon after the Cyrillo-Methodian mission in the Great Moravia and – due to the intense activity in the Bulgarian scriptoria of Preslav, Ocrida and other minor centers – arose in a relatively brief lapse of time. The article provides a brief overview on the main stages of this reception in Bulgaria until the end of the Xth century, with a special focus on compilations, adaptations and translations of single texts into Old Church Slavonic. Among the literary genres inherited by the Slavs from the Fathers (dogmatics, exegetics, hagiography, homiletics, hymnography, etc.), special attention is devoted to the panegirical prose of Clement of Ocrid, whose homilies (e.g., the Sermon for the Feast Day of Theophany and John the Baptist, the Sermon for the Feast of the prophet Zechariah, and others) have been compared with their Byzantine prototypes, mainly chrysostomic and pseudo-chrysostomic. The analysis also focuses on single rhetorical and stylistical features, examined in the wider context of the Byzantine homiletics and hymnography