The Morning Star of Slavic Literature
The peak of medieval Bulgarian power and glory is the reign of Tsar Simeon at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries. After fierce battles with his neighbours, he dominated almost the whole of the Balkans and was only just short of seizing the Byzantine throne. At the height of his power, he won the imperial crown for himself and for Bulgaria.
When Bishop Methodius died in Great Moravia on 6 April 885, the proponents of the Latin and Slavonic liturgies were at odds. Although Methodius promoted the Moravian priest Gorazd as his successor, the Roman Curia entrusted the administration of the Moravian Church to the Bishop of Nitra, Wiching, and at the same time forbade the use of the Slavic language in worship. Slavic priests were expelled from Great Moravia and the majority of them found a home in Great Bulgaria. Among them Clement of Ohrid - shown above left, the first Bulgarian bishop of Slavic nationality, then Naun and Angelarius - in the upper right corner, who simplified the Glagolitic alphabet into Cyrillic, which later became Cyrillic.
Simeon was an educated man who loved and promoted art, especially literary art. He declared the language of the Bulgarian Slavs to be the state and church language in 894, and supported literary schools in Ohrid and Great Pereslavl. He is depicted in a painting sitting on a throne in the palace in the seat of the city of Great Pereslavl, directing the work of the scribes who record the memoirs of the elders so that they do not fall into oblivion. The available literature is translated here, and the monks transcribe and reproduce literary works.
The whole picture is executed in Byzantine colour and elaboration.
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