medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Dear Mr Martin,
First of all, I would suggest the term Old Church Slavic instead of
Slavonic.
>Is Old Church Slavonic the "mother tongue" of any of the Slavic
>peoples today?
-- No. It is not spoken any more.
Are the liturgies in Bulgaria, Slovakia, Belorus etc.
>in Old Church Slavonic or in modernized vernaculars?
-- In Serbia, for example, liturgy is in Old Church Slavic.
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?
-- Yes, one can say that it is true.
>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?
--- As of later in 17th century: one has to keep in mind the rise of
the "popular" religion in Russia and Ukraine with Peter the Great. In
Serbia, again, as of 18th century, more in the religious poetry than
in liturgy itself, I would say.
Best wishes,
Angelina Milosavljevic-Ault
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