Tsvetomira Danova, “John of Damascus’ Marian Homilies in Mediaeval South Slavonic Literatures”, ed. Lora Taseva, Peter Lang, Berlin 2020 [= Studies on Language and Culture in Central and Eastern Europe, 36], pp. 542

T Danova’s monograph is important and interesting reading for several reasons. The publication originated as a revised and expanded variant of her doctoral dissertation, defended in 2014 at the Cyrillo-Methodian Research Centre at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Sofia. Since then, Danova has published several studies on Byzantine-Slavonic textology and Slavonic translations of literature, mainly Byzantine homiletics (by John of Damascus and Andrew of Crete)1; their themes and nature are related to the present study. In preparing both the dissertation and the monograph, the author benefited from the support of outstanding scholars of Slavonic literary and cultural heritage2, to whom we owe