A page from Cosmas the Priest's Sermon Against the Heretics (from National Library of Serbia)
Sermon Against the Heresy (Church Slavonic: Бесѣда на ересь, romanized: Besěda na eresǐ) is a polemical and didactic work of Old Bulgarian literature, written by Cosmas the Priest, a church writer close to Tsar Peter I of Bulgaria. Sermon bears the full title Homily of the Unworthy Presbyter Cosmas Against the Newly-Appeared Bogomil Heresy (Church Slavonic: недостоинаѥго козмꙑ презвѵтера бесеѣда на новоѩвивъшѫѭ сѧ ересь богоумилоу, romanized: nedostoinajego kozmy prezvütera beseěda na novojęvivǔšǫjǫ sę eresǐ bogumilu), or, in other manuscripts, Sermon of Saint Cosmas Presbyter Against the Heretics, A Discussion and an Instruction from the Books of God.[1]
The treatise is recognised as the earliest[2] and most complete work[3] to tell of the nature of Bogomilism, its origins and its dualistic doctrine. As Catharism originated from Bogomilism, Sermon Against the Heretics is valuable as an insight into Catharism's Balkan predecessor.[2] It is also an important source on life and society in 10th-century Bulgaria,[4] which is described as suffering a major crisis, the glorious days of Peter's father Simeon the Great (r. 893–927) long over.[5]
^Андреев, p. 210
^ abPeters, p. 109
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^Loos, pp. 50–51
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