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Constantine of Preslav was a medieval
Bulgarian scholar, writer and translator, one of the most important men of letters working at the
Preslav Literary School at the end of the
9th and the beginning of the
10th century. Biographical evidence about his life is scarce but he's believed to have been a disciple of
Saint Methodius. After the death of Methodius in
885, Constantine of Preslav was jailed by the German clergy in
Great Moravia and sold as slave in
Venice. After a successful escape to
Constantinople, he came to
Bulgaria around
886 and started working at the
Preslav Literary School.
Constantine of Preslav was one of the most prolific and important writers in
Old Bulgarian (the Bulgarian recension of
Old Church Slavonic). His most significant literary work was
Учително евангелие (
The Didactic Gospel), usually dated to the first years of the reign of Bulgarian
tsar Simeon I,
893 –
894. The work represents a compilation of lectures about a number of church holidays and is the first systematic work treating sermons in Slavic literature. The compilation also features the poetic preface
Азбучна молитва (
Alphabet Prayer), the first original poetry in
Old Church Slavonic.
In
894 Constantine of Preslav wrote the historical work
Историкии (
Histories), the first historical chronicle in Slavic literature. In
906, by commission from Simeon I, the author translated
Четири слова против арианите (
Four Epistles against the Arians) by St. Atanassius of Alexandria, as a response to the beginning of the spread of heresies in medieval
Bulgaria. Constantine of Preslav is also the alleged author of
Служба на Методия (
Service for Methodius), showing the struggle of
Saint Methodius for the recognition of
Old Church Slavonic, as well as of
Проглас към евангелието (
Proclamation of the Holy Gospels) where he rejects and castigates the admiration of the foreign language (mean. Greek) and champions Old Bulgarian as the foremost means for the development and elevation of Bulgarian culture.
None of the original works of Constantine of Preslav has survived the burning of
Preslav by
Byzantine Emperor John Tzimisces in
972 and the period of
Ottoman rule (
1396 –
1878). All of his works are known from copies, the earliest of which date back to the
12th and the
13th century.
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