title: A few words about the identity of the Slavs, yesterday, today and tomorrow
metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Homza, Martin
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2018-08-07T11:23:29Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2018-08-07T11:23:29Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-06
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.other
metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu19.2018.101
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/14721
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: This paper brings together the considerations that for many years the author has gathered on the
  origin, identity and successful expansion of the Slavs throughout the world. The author notes that although
  the issue of post-Roman social self-identification has been discussed for several decades not only in Europe
  but also worldwide, a deeper understanding of the apparition and expansion of the Slavic identity has not
  yet been achieved. In the author’s opinion, the success of the Slavic identity was the result of the quality and
  attractiveness of the Slavic cultural memory, whose evolution shows three basic stages following the necessary
  starting point, i.e. the revolutionary decision taken by the military community at the Low and Middle
  Danube to adopt the name Slav. The first phase is the formation of their cultural memory, which just like that
  of other barbarian military communities (gentes) in the aftermath of the fall of the Roman Empire, was built
  on the literary (oral) transmission of the narrative that told the glorious deeds of the community and its elite
  (ruler, dynasty, retinue). The second and third stages of the development of the Slavic identity constitute the
  historically relatively short period of the Great Moravia, beginning and ending in the 9th century. On a political
  level, the increased attractiveness of the self-identification concept of the Slavic elites resulted in the vastest
  territorial expansion of the land of the Danubian Slavs during the reign of Svatopluk I and the formal
  constitution of the Slavic Kingdom, which was recognised by both, Rome and the Empire. On a cultural
  level, however, the success of the Moymirid dynasty was outperformed by the missionary work of St. Constantine
  the Philosopher and his brother St Methodius, who created the Slavic alphabet and the Slavonic
  liturgical language, translated the Sacred Scriptures, wrote some original literature works, etc. The author
  considers the Christian concept of self-identification, built on the identical wording of the word Logos, i.e.
  Slovo (Word) and Slovan (Slav) — which was developed by St. Constantine the Philosopher — to have
  become the nomen est omen of the past, the present and the future of the Slavs.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Studia Slavica et Balcanika Petropolitana;Issue 1(23)
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Slavs
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Slavic identity
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Great Moravia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Sts Cyril and Methodius
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: A few words about the identity of the Slavs, yesterday, today and tomorrow
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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