From the Euphrates to the shores of La Manche. Church and Lyre

The book consists of translations and research of church-poetic works of the Middle Ages. It includes both the texts of the East (the creations of the Ephraim of the Sirin, the novel of the sweet to the Sweeter, John Damascus, the anonymous hymns from Jadgar, etc), and the works of the West (hymns of Pruens, fragments from Heliand and Saxon Genesis) Translations were made from the Greek Byzantine, Latin, Syrian languages ​​in a metric, close to the original. The texts are equipped with comments. In the introductory articles, information about authorship, time and place of their creation is given, the theological and literary significance of these monuments is revealed. The author of translations and comments is a doctor of historical sciences, professor of St. Petersburg State University, candidate of philological sciences, candidate of theology, Protodiacon Vladimir Vasilik. The book is designed for a wide range of readers, interested in history, theology, philosophy and poetry