Aspects of everyday life in Old-Bulgarian hagiographical cycle of stories A Tale of the Iron Cross

Abstract

The hagiographical cycle of stories – А Tale of the Iron Cross is relatively well-known, but as a source of information for everyday life it still has not been studied properly. Such a factis somewhat surprising. Even a glimpse at Tale’s texts gives an opportunity many questionable aspects of daily life to be shown. A serious look at the cycle’s data is very fruitful. There are some important descriptions of clothes, foodstuff, drinks consummation as well as craft activities. Moreover, records concerning various types of illnesses, reasons of health disorder and treatment skills also can be observed. At the same time the importance of those features increases when scholars take into consideration the historical database which left unknown many sides of daily life in the dawn of so-called Slavia Orthodoxa