New discoveries for the hellenophone hagiographie and hymnographic tradition about Saint John Vladimir

Abstract

The science has devoted a great attention to the Latin hagiography for St. Jo hn Vladimir and the chronicle in which it was exposed. But that is not the case with the Greek hagiography and the tradition of the Ohrid Archbishopric of St. John Vladimir to which the science up to now had devoted very little attention. Therefore in this paper parti cular attention is paid to these hagiographic and hymnological works and with their deeper analysis, one can come to some new conclusions about the time and place of their occurren ce. Also the question about their authorship is seriously raised. Thus, it refutes the generally accepted view that the Metropolitan Cosmas of Kition is the author of whole hymnography, hagiography and encomium.