Former Fellows

This project approaches the activities of a 19th-century monk qualified as an “excellent preacher” by a country fellow of him. In Ruse in 1809, Hieromonk Panteleimon, prohegoumenos of Hilandar Monastery, copied Priest Stoiko Vladislavov’s version of Slavonic-Bulgarian History by Paisii of Hilandar. He paraphrased many sentences and added new information, thus generating a new version of the History that became popular. The objectives of the research proposed are five: a) through collation of four manuscript copies of Paisii’s work, to characterize the Vorlage (antigraph) of Panteleimon, that is, the underlying text; b) to examine Panteleimon’s use of additional sources viewed as metatexts; c) to analyze his narrative techniques and choices seen as reflection of his mentality, knowledge and strives of a monk with many duties and various social contacts; d) to study the dissemination of Panteleimon’s version through manuscript copies and to discuss the changes made by later copyists and marginalia of readers showing their attitudes towards the text; e) to design two digital maps: one of Panteleimon’s travelling and another of the copies of his work demonstrating the links amongst them and places in which they were produced and used.