In this paper the events that took place in Bulgaria in the first years after the removal of the monastery old prince Boris Michael, during the reign of his son Vladimir Rasate are discussed. The events are difficult to reconstruction and their interpretation often caused controversies and contradictions in historiography. The only detailed testimony concerning the policy of Vladimir Rasate and his dethronement in 893 is placed in the German chronicle compiled around 908 by Regino the abbot of the Prüm monastery in Lorraine which is the subject of the analysis.
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В статье рассматриваются события, разыгравшиеся в Болгарии в первые годы после удаления в монастырь постаревшего князя Бориса-Михаила при правлении его сына Владимира-Расате. Обсуждаемые события трудно поддаются реконструкции и их интерпретация часто вызывала споры и противоречия в историографии. Единственное более подробное свидетельство относительно политики Владимира-Расате и его детронизации в 893 г., помещенное в составленной ок. 908 г. хронике немецкого летописца Регино, игумена Прюмского монастыря в Лотарингии, является предметом анализа данной статьи.
The paper discusses the differences between Eastern and Western Christians during the Middle Ages through the prism of the lists of ritual deviations and bad habits of the ‘Latin heretics’, which were circulated in Byzantium in the second half of the 12th century (following the Great Schism of 1054). The translations and revisions of these lists remained popular among the Orthodox Christians in the Balkans and Eastern Europe up until the end of the 17th century. Special attention has been given to the reception among the Slavs of two Byzantine accusations levelled on the westerners – (1) that their priests shave; (2) that they eat various ‘unclean’ animals and creatures. The examples of the peculiar mundanity of the religious dialogue and polemics analysed in the paper suggest that this was a trend resulting from the ambition of the Orthodox societies in the Balkans and Eastern Europe to strengthen through various means their ethnic and religious identity in the context of the fierce political and confessional confrontation with the Catholic world of Western Europe. Also highlighted is the need for the research of medieval polemical texts to embrace the archaeological, ethnological and folkloristic evidence, which would allow us to clarify the sources and trends in the development and transformation of the key features of the identity of Slavic Orthodox societies during the Middle Ages and Modernity.
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