Chapter I. The Great Schism (1054) and its resonance among the Balkan Slavs

1. The Archbishopric of Ohrid between Constantinople and Rome

2. From the history of the Slavic ‘dossier’ of the Great Schism

The Slavonic translation of the First epistle of the Patriarch of Constantinople Michael Cerularius to the Patriarch of Antioch Peter III against the errors of the Latins (1054)

A Useful Tale about the Latins

A Short Tale about the Latins

Chapter II. Anti-Latin polemics and confessional confrontation between Orthodoxy and Catholicism in medieval Bulgaria (13^th—14^th c.)

1. The polemical literature in Bulgaria in the light of an anti-Latin miscellany written in Tarnovo in the sixties of the 14th c.

2. The ritual deviations and bad habits of the Latin heretics in the Byzantine-Slavic polemical literature (two examples)

3. The Hungarian occupation of Vidin in 1365–1369 and the attempt to convert local Bulgarian population into Catholicism

Chapter III. The Slavic anti-Catholic literature in 15^th—17^th c.: Reinvention and transformation of the medieval polemical tradition

1. Tale of how Rome fell from Orthodoxy: an unknown late medieval invective against the Papacy

2. Tale about the Impious Popes: an unpublished 17th c. pamphlet against the Papacy and the Union of Brest from the library of the Hilandar monastery

Conclusions

Между Рим и Константинопол. Из антикатолическата литература в България и славянския православен свят (XI-XVII в.)

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