The pronominal system in the Middle Bulgarian translation of the homilies against the Anomoeans by St. John Chrysostom
Year: 2016
Type: article
Abstract: The article deals with the pronominal system in a hitherto linguistically unexplored text, namely the Middle Bulgarian translation of Against the Anomoeans. On the Incomprehensible Nature of God by John Chrysostom. This text consists of six homilies, comprising the first part of the book Margarit (Pearl), a crucial component of the Slavic handwritten tradition. The study of the Slavonic translation of Margarit is very important for outlining the translation practice of the scholars of the literary circle around Theodosius of Tarnovo. Although the knowledge about the authorship of the translation is essential for the study of the history of the Bulgarian language, it is only for very few of the texts from this period, that the translator is known, and only a minor part of them are accurately dated and localized. The survey is based on the earliest Bulgarian transcript – manuscript F.I.197, kept in The National Library of Russia, Saint Petersburg – written in the middle of the fourteenth century. The manuscript is considered to have been composed during the lifetime of his translator – the scholar Dionisiy Divniy. The article highlights a high degree of similarity between the linguistic devices used by Dionisiy Divniy and the language of the other representatives of the Tarnovo Literary School.
Author: Димитров, Камен
Language: English
Subfield: Classics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7132337912