Christianization of Moravia
The Christianization of Moravia refers to the spread of the Christian religion in the lands of medieval Moravia (Great Moravia).
What modern historians designate as
Despite the formal endorsement by the elites, the Great Moravian Christianity was described as containing many pagan elements as late as in 852.
After the death of Rastislav successor, Svatopluk I (who expelled the disciples of Methodius from Moravia in 886 thus effectively ending the existence of Slavonic liturgy in his realm) Moravia was partitioned between its neighbours (Bohemia and Hungary) and the Slavic church went into decline, replaced by the churches better established in those other territories.[10] Nevertheless, a number of expelled Slavic church clerics and scholars found refuge in Bulgaria, where their teachings, liturgical and literacy traditions were successfully incorporated into the early Bulgarian Orthodox Church and formed in great extent the medieval Bulgarian culture.[10]
See also
References
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- ^ Stanislav, Ján (1934). Životy slovanských apoštolov Cyrila a Metoda. Panonsko-moravské legendy. Bratislava, Praha: Vydané spoločne nakladateľstvom Slovenskej ligy a L. Mazáča. Archived from the original on 2008-03-25. Retrieved 2009-10-09.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-61025-043-6. Retrieved 15 June 2013.
- ^ Bartoňková Dagmar; et al., eds. (1969). "Libellus de conversione Bagoariorum et Carantanorum (i.e. Conversio)". Magnae Moraviae fontes historici III. Praha: Statni pedagogicke nakl.
- ^ Conversio Bagoariorum et Carantanorum: "Adalramus archepiscopus ultra Danubium in sua proprietate loco vocato Nitrava consecravit ecclesiam." ("Archbishop Adalram consecrated a church for him over the Danube on his possession called Nitra.")
- ^ Sommer, Petr; Trestik, Dusan; Zemlicka, Josef (2007), "Bohemia and Moravia", in Berend, Nora (ed.), Christianization and the rise of Christian monarchy : Scandinavia, Central Europe and Rus' c. 900-1200, Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 214–262
- ^ Barford, P. M. (2001). The early Slavs : culture and society in early medieval Eastern Europe. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-313-30984-7. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
- ISBN 978-1-61025-043-6. Retrieved 15 June 2013.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-61025-043-6. Retrieved 15 June 2013.
External links
- Cyrillus and Methodius, the Apostles of the Slavs. Christianization of Moravia, Bohemia and Poland., History of the Christian Church, Volume IV: Mediaeval Christianity. A.D. 590–1073.
- Great Moravia, Christanization of