IMC 2011: Sessions
Session 1611: Paucity and Plenty in Medieval Slavic Pre-Christian and Christian Traditions
Thursday 14 July 2011, 11.15-12.45
Sponsor: | Departamento de Filología Griega y Lingüística Indoeuropea, Universidad Complutense de Madrid |
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Organiser: | Juan Antonio Álvarez-Pedrosa Núñez, Departamento de Filología Griega y Lingüística Indoeuropea, Universidad Complutense de Madrid |
Moderator/Chair: | Carlos Molina Valero, Departamento de Filología Clásica e Indoeuropeo, Universidad de Salamanca |
Paper 1611-a | Fortune and Fertility Rites among the Western Slavs in the Sources of Slavic Pre-Christian Religion (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Slavic, Pagan Religions |
Paper 1611-b | Fortune and Fertility Rites among the Eastern Slavs in the Sources of Slavic Pre-Christian Religion (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Slavic, Pagan Religions |
Paper 1611-c | Concepts of Fortune, Poverty, and Wealth in the Christianization Process of the Slavs: The Evidence from Menander Wisdom (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Slavic, Pagan Religions |
Abstract | Throughout the centuries humankind addressed to deities in order to avoid paucity and procure plenty and wealth. In this session we will make a survey of medieval Slavic culture, showing the concepts of fortune, poverty and wealth in Slavic pre-Christian religion, as attested in the sources gathered by professor J. A. Álvarez-Pedrosa and his research group, as well as their subsequent evolution during the christianization process, that can be traced in the Slavonic versions of Menander's wise sentences. |