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Cyril and Methodius of Thessalonica
The Acculturation of the Slavs
by Anthony-Emil N. Tachiaos
Book Description
At the height of the tumultuous developments taking place in Central and Eastern Europe in the ninth century, two Greek missionaries from Thessalonica came to the fore. Their work of acculturation among the Slavs had far-reaching and lasting changes upon European life. This book looks back over the life and work of these two outstanding figures and analyzes their ecclesiastical and cultural mission. Their presence in the Crimea was closely bound up with several aspects of Byzantium's ecclesiastical policy and programs of acculturation, and also with the Russians' first encounter with Christianity. In presenting the Slavs with an alphabet and the written word, the brothers transmitted to them the world, and this it was in Cyril and Methodius' time, and thanks to their work, that Great Moravia reached the height of its vigor and prosperity as a central European state. The Cyrillo-Methodian tradition lived on, spreading among the Slavic peoples and laying the foundation of their spiritual life.Table of Contents
ContentsAbbreviations vi
Preface ix
1. The Celebrated City of Thessalonica 1
2. The Two Brothers' Careers 21
3. The Silence of Mt. Olympus 33
4. The New Mission 39
5. A Time of Meditation 55
6. The Great Mission 7
7. Methodius Archbishop of the Slavs 93
8. The Activity of the Disciples in Bulgaria 107
9. Cyril and Methodius' Legacy to the Slavs 127
10. The Cult of the Saints Cyril and Methodius 145
Endnotes 159
Bibliographical Note 199
About Anthony-Emil N. Tachiaos
Anthony-Emil N. Tachiaos is Professor Emeritus of Slavic Ecclesiastical History and Literature, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has written extensively on cyrillomethodian problems and the influence of Byzantine hesychasm on the Slavs, and has been the editor of the review Cyrillomethodianum.Book reviews
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