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- Title
Cultural and educational role of the Rila Monastery in the history of Bulgaria (X-XIX centuries). A bridge between eras, generations and cultures.
- Authors
Terziyska, Milka
- Abstract
The Rila Monastery is the oldest and largest Bulgarian monastery, permanently connected to the historical fate of the Bulgarian people since its foundation in the tenth century until the liberation (1878). He has had a great importance in the cultural life of the Bulgarians during the entire period of its existence, but it was especially important during Ottoman rule and Renaissance (XV-XIXth Centuries). One of the most important prerequisites for that is the cult of its founder St. Ivan Rilski who turned in the first centuries after his death not only in Bulgarian, but in a Balkan and Slavic saint. It is essential that the status of the Rila Monastery as stauropegial (patriarchal). Having outgrown the nature of a cult center in the Middle Ages, the Rila monastery became a national cultural center during the Renaissance and a factor of communication between Bulgarian and other Balkan and Slavic peoples until the liberation.
- Subjects
BULGARIA; RILSKI manastir (Bulgaria); RELIGIOUS education; IVAN, Rilski, Saint, ca. 876-946; CULTURAL identity; BULGARIAN history, to 1393; BULGARIAN history, 1393-1878; HISTORY of education; HISTORY
- Publication
History of Education & Children's Literature, 2016, Vol 11, Issue 2, p11
- ISSN
1971-1093
- Publication type
Article