Mакарьевские варианты псковской и пространной редакций Простого Пролога

• Authors: Марина Чистякова

Abstracts

EN

Muscovite metropolitan Makarius (1542-1563) began a new period in the history of canonisation. Until the time of Makarius’ councils in the Russian Orthodox Church there were 22 universally venerated national saints. During the two local councils in 1547 and 1549 the cult of other 39 saints was established. Almost all the canonised saints were already venerated in churches of separate dioceses or monasteries. The councils only confirmed the local veneration or made that cult universal for all Russia. The councils ultimately formulated the rite of canonisation. The lives of the newly canonised saints were introduced into the hagiographical literature. When Makarius was still the archbishop of Novgorod, he initiated collecting information about the Russian saints and writing their services, their lives or new versions of their lives. In Prologue – a calendar collection of short lives of the saints and some teachings – only short versions of the new saints’ lives were introduced. Only 8 manuscript copies of Prologue containing those lives exist now. Therefore the Makarius’ hagiographical body was introduced into a few copies of the Simple Prologue. The lives of the new saints were equally introduced into autumn and spring volume of the Prologue. The contemporarily existing copies allow to distinguish Makarius’ variant of Pskov version and Makarius’ variant of the wide version. The materials included in the Prologue are connected not only with the councils of 1547 and 1549, but also more widely with the activity undertaken by metropolitan Makarius in order to systematise the hagiographical literature. Existence of the copies of Makarius’ variant of the wide version of the Simple Prologue on the territory of the Commonwealth proves the mutual influence of the religious literature and of the close links between the countries of the cultural acreage of Slavia orthodoxa.

Keywords

PL

Kościoł prawosławny; metropolita Makary; Prolog

EN

Orthodox Church; Metropolitan Makarius; Prologue

• Publisher: Akademia Supraska
• Journal: Latopisy Akademii Supraskiej
• Year: 2011
• Volume: Kościół prawosławny na Bałkanach i w Polsce – wzajemne relacje oraz wspólna tradycja
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 163-172

Dates

published

2011

Contributors

author

Марина Чистякова

Identifiers

Biblioteka Nauki

2167279