Church Slavic, Recensions of

Bounatirou, Elias Moncef (2020). Church Slavic, Recensions of. In: Greenberg, Marc L.; Grenoble, Lenore A. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Slavic languages and linguistics. Leiden – Boston: Brill 10.1163/2589-6229_ESLO_COM_032050

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In connection with a brief outline of the history of Church Slavic itself, the present article gives an overview of the different recensions of Church Slavic (the Middle Bulgarian, Serbian, Croatian, Russian, Czech and Romanian recensions). Church Slavic (or “Church Slavonic” as it is also called) is a generic term for a group of Slavic varieties that have typically been used by Orthodox Slavs or Slavs belonging to Eastern Catholic Churches to produce texts with a (Christian) religious purpose. The term “recension” refers to a regional variety of Church Slavic, particularly in its medieval form. As becomes clear, however, the common notion of “recension” is problematic in a number of respects.

Item Type:	Book Section (Encyclopedia Article)
Division/Institute:	06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies > Institute of Slavic Languages and Literatures
UniBE Contributor:	Bounatirou, Elias Moncef
Subjects:	400 Language > 490 Other languages 800 Literature, rhetoric & criticism > 890 Other literatures
ISSN:	2589-6229
Publisher:	Brill
Language:	English
Submitter:	Hermina Delic
Date Deposited:	08 Mar 2019 15:15
Last Modified:	05 Dec 2022 15:24
Publisher DOI:	10.1163/2589-6229_ESLO_COM_032050
Additional Information:	Official URL von der Online-Edition
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/123231