Origin and Development
The main prerequisite for the Tarnovo Literary School was the cultural revival of the late 14th century. It was largely due to the interest of Emperor Ivan Alexander (1331-1371) to 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 credit to the establishment of the School.
The school was established in the capital of the Bulgarian Empire Tarnovo by Saint Evtimiy of Tarnovo. With his orthographic and linguistic reform rules of the Bulgarian language were established and wrongly translated texts were corrected. These corrected texts became models for the Orthodox churches of Bulgaria, Serbia, Wallachia, Moldavia and Russia using the Church Slavonic language.
The main work of the writers of the Tarnovo Literary School included writing original literature, translation of books from Greek and creation of compilations.
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