medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
I used to attend Saturday mass at a Ukranian church back home in NE Penna.,
& the texts were in Old Church Slavonic.
Tom Izbicki
ps Cyril is/was buried in the lower church of San Clemente in Rome. It is
on my must-see list for Rome.
At 08:38 AM 2/15/2002 -0600, you wrote:
>medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>
>Is Old Church Slavonic the "mother tongue" of any of the Slavic peoples
>today? Are the liturgies in Bulgaria, Slovakia, Belorus etc. in Old
>Church Slavonic or in modernized vernaculars? If in Old Church Slavonic,
>then the situation is closer (not identical) to that of the liturgy in
>Latin in the West after the rise of the vernaculars as literary languages
>in the Middle Ages. Indeed, would not the relation of modern Italian and
>perhaps Spanish to Latin be fairly close to the relation between some of
>the modern Slavic languages and Old Church Slavonic? I am ready to be
>corrected by those who know better.
>
>At what point did the language of liturgy in Slavic lands begin to require
>some effort to understand comparable to the effort that would have been
>required in the West to understand Latin in, say, the 12th century? Or
>did it never become that? I would think that the gap in the West was and
>is greater, but how much greater and when? I could imagine that the
>situation in Bulgaria, for instance, could be quite different from that in
>Russia or Ukraine. How much was the language of liturgy revised in the
>various Slavic nations during medieval or modern times? Or does the
>present Old Church Slavonic liturgy's language essentially go back to the
>9th century (I'm sure the form goes back to the first few centuries of the
>Christian era; my concern here is the "vernacular dress" it was given in
>Slavic regions)?
>
>Dennis Martin
>
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