Programme

Course program:

- The concept of Slavic-ecclesiastic literature.
- Hagiography: genres and macrogenres (collections of texts). Analysis of some hagiographic texts.
- Palaeoslavic hymnography. The hymnographic collections.
- Applied rhetoric: genres, collections. Analysis of some paleoslav sermons.
- Apocrypha.

Core Documentation

The texts to be analyzed will be provided in PDF during the course.

Type of delivery of the course

Lessons and analysis of texts in the classroom and independently.

Type of evaluation

The final exam includes the oral discussion of the contents dealt with during the course and the commentary of the translation into Italian of a text agreed in advance with the teacher. The outcome of a preliminary work of translation and analysis of a paleoslavic text will contribute to the evaluation.