Sachgebiete

Beschreibung:

639 S. m. Abb. u. Karten, gebundene Ausgabe mit Umschl.

Bemerkung:

Umschlag etwas berieben. - Spisy University J.E. Purkyne v Brne Filosoficka Fakulta, 102. - For centuries the attention and interest of a wider public than that of scholars only has been held by the question of the Great Moravian Empire, ? one of the most significant and interesting power formations of early medieval Europe, and the second West-Slavonic state of extensive international influence and importance ? and above all by the question of the so-called Byzantine Mission of 863?885, which brought fame to the territory of the Old Moravians and to the era of the Moravian princes Rostislav and Svatopluk, while at the same time putting into the shade the actual fate of Great Moravia itself. In the year 1963 in connection with the extensive archaeological finds in Southern Moravia and the eleven-hundredth anniversary of the arrival in Moravia of the two brothers from Salonika, interest was once more focussed on these two questions, namely the fate of the Great Moravian Empire and the significance of the Byzantine Mission. Both these problems, i. e., that of Great Moravia and that of the mission of Cyril and Methodius, were the subject of several international conferences during the year 1963: that at Salzburg in June, 1963, the Fifth Congress of Slavonic Studies in Sophia in September and the international conference held in Brno and Nitra in October. The general tendency of the Salzburg conference obviously was to endeavour to emphasize the role of Salzburg as the intellectual and christianizing centre for the Central Danube region in the 9th century and thus for the region of Great Moravia too. a centre to which the Slavs dwelling in the eastern parts of Central Europe allegedly owe much, if not everything, and to whose influence is said to be due, thanks to the Scoto-Irish and Franko-Bavarian missionaries who arrived via Salzburg, the fact that these Slavs entered the European sphere, i. e. the sphere of Western civilization. According to the conception of the organizers of the Salzburg Conference, Cyril and Methodius carried out a great work of civilization. But it was held that they were able to do so only on the foundations laid by the metropolitan see of Salzburg and its Scoto-Irish and Franko-Bavarian missionaries. It was suggested that Western Christianity and its representatives, namely the Archbishopric of Salzburg and its missions, set their seal upon the Slav culture which Cyril and Methodius founded in Great Moravia. (Einführung).