Published: 2025-12-29

On the writing of Bulgarian Catholics from the second half of the 18th century and its impact on living language

Mariola Walczak-Mikołajczakowa
Zeszyty Łużyckie
Section: Articles
DOI https://doi.org/10.32798/zl.1589

Abstract

Catholic literature in Bulgaria, long treated as a marginal phenomenon, has attracted the attention of many researchers in the last two decades. The language of works created by Catholic authors, in which Croatian influences are clearly visible, has already been discussed and described in considerable detail in scientific literature. Тhe author wonders what factors influenced the fact that the literature created in the second half of the 18th century was so popular among Catholics that it managed to influence the shape of their living speech and significantly modify the so-called Paulician dialect. She believes that the popularity of these texts was determined not only by the content and language that distinguished them among the Orthodox community – analyzing the texts of Pavel Duvanlia Gaydadzhiyski and Piotr Kovachev Tsarski and their anonymous successors, she comes to the conclusion that this factor was the references to folk art, and especially to the composition of works belonging to oral literature. The author therefore indicates the features of orality in texts written for Bulgarian Catholics.

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Catholics, writing, folk culture, orality

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Walczak-Mikołajczakowa, M. (2025). On the writing of Bulgarian Catholics from the second half of the 18th century and its impact on living language. Zeszyty Łużyckie, 62(1), 59–77. https://doi.org/10.32798/zl.1589

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