Slawisches Schrifttum und Liturgie des 10. und 11. Jahrhunderts (original) (raw)

Lumír Poláček -Jana Maříková-Kubková (Hrsg.), Frühmittelalterliche Kirchen als archäologische und historische Quelle Internationale Tagungen in Mikulčice VIII, Brno 2010 Slavic Literature and Liturgy of the 10th and 11th Centuries. This study explores the question of Old Slavic literature and liturgy, which has been the subject of discussion for two whole centuries, and not only in Czech historiography and linguistics. The author shows that in the 10th century only a very limited number of texts can be linked to the Bohemian lands, although the number of such texts increases in the 11th century. However, these are generally translations, and from the Latin at that. The question therefore arises as to whether it is possible to strictly separate the "eastern" and "western", or the "Latin" and "home" traditions, as this problem evidently did not really affect Bohemia in the early Middle Ages. Notes in the text entitled Cosmas´ Chronicle from Sázava show that the fall of the "Slavic tradition" there was depicted not as a victory, but rather as proof of the negative impact of discord amidst the monastic community and its insubordination towards the abbot. Just as the importance of papal rulings used to be overestimated, without support in the domestic environment these rulings could usually not be complied with. The same applies as regards liturgy in the Slavonic language, which was wrongly disassociated from the literary tradition despite the fact that writing, literature and liturgy were closely interlinked in the early Middle Ages.