“Helper of the rulers”: St empress Theophano in South Slavic tradition
Language: Bulgarian with summary in English

     The monograph is devoted to the St empress Theophano's cult (first wife of the Byzantine emperor Leo VI the Wise (866—912), as it is expresed in the Bulgarian and Serbian literatures (liturgical, paraliturgical and historical) from the mid-14th to the beginning of the 16th century.

Table of contents

Introduction

Chapter 1. St Empress Theophano in Byzantium

Life and Cult

St Empress Theophano in Byzantine Hagiography

Chapter 2. The Cult of St Empress Theophano in Bulgaria and Serbia

Chpter 3. Synaxarion Notices on St Empress Theophano

Synaxarion Notice on St Empress Theophano in the Prolog

The Slovo about St Empress Theophano in the Bdinski Sbornik

Synaxarion Notice on St Empress Theophano in the Verse Prolog

Chapter 4. The Life of St Empress Theophano by Deacon Nikolaos

Archeographic Notes on the Extant South Slavic Manuscripts

The Greek Prototype of the Slavonic Text: Its Author and Sources

South Slavonic Translations of the Life of St Empress Theophano by Deacon Nikolaos

Translation A (Middle Bulgarian)

Translation B (manuscripts Рс725)

Chapter 5. The Service for St Empress Theophano by Patriarch Evtimij and the Hagiographic Sources about Her in Balkan Cyrillic Manuscripts

Chapter 6. Later Manifestations of the Cult of St Empress Theophano

Conclusion

Texts

Synaxarion Notice on St Empress Theophano in the Prolog

Synaxarion Notice on St Empress Theophano in the Verse Prolog

Life of St Empress Theophano by Deacon Nikolaos (Translation A)

Life of St Empress Theophano by Deacon Nikolaos (Translation B)

About the Most-wise Emperor Leo (Agapios Landos. Miracles of the Theotokos, No 6)

Prayers to Women Saints in Apocryphal Amulets Books

Abbreviations

Bibliography

Summary

„Помощница на царете“: света императрица Теофана в южнославянската традиция

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