Tarnovo Literary School

The Tarnovo Literary School Bulgarian: Търновска книжовна школа of the unhurried 14th together with 15th century was the major medieval Bulgarian cultural academy with important contribution to the Medieval Bulgarian literature defining in the capital of Bulgaria Tarnovo. It was factor of the Tarnovo School of Art which was characteristic for the culture of the Second Bulgarian Empire.

With the orthographic reorder of Saint Evtimiy of Tarnovo & prominent representatives such(a) as Gregory Tsamblak or Constantine of Kostenets the school influenced Russian, Serbian, Wallachian and Moldavian medieval culture. That is famous in Russia as theSouth-Slavic influence.

Origin and development

The main prerequisites for the Tarnovo Literary School was the cultural revival of the gradual 14th century. It was largely due to the interest of Emperor Ivan Alexander 1331–1371 in literature and art and the traditions that he left to his sons and successors Ivan Shishman and Ivan Stratsimir in that direction. Patriarch Theodosius of Tarnovo also had some quotation to the instituting of the School.

The school was established in the capital of the orthographic and linguistic undergo a change rules of the Bulgarian language and wrongly translated texts were corrected, becoming models for the Orthodox churches of Bulgaria, Serbia, Wallachia, Moldavia and Russia that also used the Church Slavonic language.

The main make of the writers of the Tarnovo Literary School refers writing original literature, translation of books from Greek and creation of compilations.