The main aim of this work is the presentation and analysis of anti-turkish and anti-Islamic ideas found in the South Slavonic prophecies. Prophetic and apocalyptic literature developed in two connected directions in the Ottoman period among the Orthodox Slavs in the Balkans. On the one hand, old prophetic and apocalyptic material (such as the Revelation of Pseudo-Methodius, prophecies of Leo the Wise, the apocryphal Visions of Daniel) was actualized according to new historical-political circumstances. On the other hand, new anti-turkish prophecies were created in that period. However, marginal glosses, interpolations or compilations were often used in that process. Anti-Turkish and anti-Islamic ideas focused mainly on the future Ottoman doom and the image of the legendary emperor who was supposed to defeat the “Ishmaelites”.
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The main aim of this work is the presentation and analysis of anti-turkish and anti-Islamic ideas found in the South Slavonic prophecies. Prophetic and apocalyptic literature developed in two connected directions in the Ottoman period among the Orthodox Slavs in the Balkans. On the one hand, old prophetic and apocalyptic material (such as the Revelation of Pseudo-Methodius, prophecies of Leo the Wise, the apocryphal Visions of Daniel) was actualized according to new historical-political circumstances. On the other hand, new anti-turkish prophecies were created in that period. However, marginal glosses, interpolations or compilations were often used in that process. Anti-Turkish and anti-Islamic ideas focused mainly on the future Ottoman doom and the image of the legendary emperor who was supposed to defeat the “Ishmaelites”
This work deals with the problem of intersemiotics in Orthodox Slavonic culture in the Middle Ages. Attention here is focused on the source, essence and ontology of correspondence of the arts. Despite the fact that in the Middle Ages word and image (icons, frescos, miniatures of manuscripts) had completely different specificity of signs, they were connected with each other on a different level of perception. According to the Church Fathers (John of Damascus, Maximus the Confessor, Basil the Great) and East Christian mysticism (Pseudo Dionysius the Areopagite), the art of the written word and visual art had the same aim and function, because they referred to eternal and spiritual reality and to the divine archetype. The ontology of the word and icon was linked to the specific version of Pseudo-Dionysius’ symbolism. Moreover, this symbolism is connected with the term – “paradigmatical image”, functioning beyond text and iconography, in the iconosphere of the Orthodox Middle Ages. Paradigmatical image becomes a specific link between a word and an icon. Of course, paradigmatical images were created on the basis of Biblical (and/or apocryphal) and Patristic Byzantine texts, although they started to function regardless of their original context. This work presents the way paradigmatical images function in Orthodox iconography and literature (the Raising of Lazarus, the Last Judgement, the Trinity).
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This work deals with the problem of intersemiotics in Orthodox Slavonic culture in the Middle Ages. Attention here is focused on the source, essence and ontology of correspondence of the arts. Despite the fact that in the Middle Ages word and image (icons, frescos, miniatures of manuscripts) had completely different specificity of signs, they were connected with each other on a different level of perception. According to the Church Fathers (John of Damascus, Maximus the Confessor, Basil the Great) and East Christian mysticism (Pseudo Dionysius the Areopagite), the art of the written word and visual art had the same aim and function, because they referred to eternal and spiritual reality and to the divine archetype. The ontology of the word and icon was linked to the specific version of Pseudo-Dionysius’ symbolism. Moreover, this symbolism is connected with the term – “paradigmatical image”, functioning beyond text and iconography, in the iconosphere of the Orthodox Middle Ages. Paradigmatical image becomes a specific link between a word and an icon. Of course, paradigmatical images were created on the basis of Biblical (and/or apocryphal) and Patristic Byzantine texts, although they started to function regardless of their original context. This work presents the way paradigmatical images function in Orthodox iconography and literature (the Raising of Lazarus, the Last Judgement, the Trinity).
Paweł Dziadul Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicz, Poznań, Poland pawel90883@gmail.com МИССИЯ МОСКОВСКОГО ГОСУДАРСТВА С ТОЧКИ ЗРЕНИЯ ЗОСИМЫ, ФИЛОФеЯ И АГАФОНА Резюме Главным предметом этой работы является представление идей, которые были выработаны тремя важными личностями московского государства в конце XV и начале XVI века: московским митрополитом Зосимом Брадатым, псковским монахом Филофеием и новгородским священиком Агафоном. Они попытались представить новую миссию московского государства, исходящую с эсхатологического и конфессионально-экклезиологического мышления. Им пришлось реконструировать и актуализировать в специфическом религиозно-историческом контексте византийскую концепцию теократического „государства божьего”, связанного с доктриной диархии. осима, Филофей и Агафон изложили три идеологические модели, предcтавляющие Москву и московское государство как „новый Константинополь”, „третий Рим” и „новый Рим”, или „новый Киев”. MISSION OF MUSCOVYACCORDING TO ZOSIMUS, PHILOTHEUS AND AGAFON Summary The main concept of this work is the presentation of ideas created by three important per-sonalities of the Muscovite Rus at the end of the 15th and the beginning of the 16th century: the metropolitan of Moscow Zosimus the Bearded, the monk Philotheus of Pskov and the Novgorodian clergyman Agafon. They tried to present a new mission of Muscovy through the eschatological and confessional-ecclesiological prism. In the specific religious-historical context, the Byzantine concept of theocratic “divine state” connected with the doctrine of diarchy had to be updated and reconstructed. Zosimus, Philotheus and Agafon formed three ideological models perceiving Moscow and Muscovy as a “new Constantinople”, a “third Rome” and a “new Rome” or a “new Kiev”.
This paper deals with the role and function of the Parable of the Labourers in the Vineyard in Old Slavonic literatures dedicated to the Christianization of the Slavs. It is possible to find analogous symbols, motifs and concepts subordinated to the ideological Christianization-missionary complex in Bulgaria (works written by Kliment of Ohrid, Theophylact of Ohrid), Kievan Rus’ (works of Nestor, Hilarion) and Serbia (works of Teodosije the Hilandarian, Domentijan). The works, where we can find references to the Evangelical Parable, depicted the evangelical activities of Cyril and Methodius and their cultural resonance (in Bulgaria), the baptism of Vladimir (in Kievan Rus’) and missionary activity of Simeon and Sava (in Serbia). The Christianization of the Slavs was interpreted in eschatological categories, because it happened in the seventh millennium (according to the Byzantine era) and at the “eleventh hour” according to the Evangelical Parable. Along with the end of the seventh millennium the end of the world was anticipated. The Parable was applied to the Slavs, who became the workers of the eleventh hour, though they came late, they were in no way inferior to the other Christians. According to the prophetic words of this text “the last shall be first”, the Slavs seemed to be a new God-chosen nation. We can observe an evolution of the Christianization-missionary ideological complex on the basis of the Evangelical Parable from the universal level in the literature dedicated to Cyril and Methodius to the local level in Old-Serbian and Old-Russian literature, because the same ideas were used there to show affirmation of the concrete nation.