Влияние византийской культуры на развитие славянской литературы

Slavic culture was greatly influenced by Byzantine culture, arts, architecture, political science, scientific ideas and also theology. A very important role in the development of literature belongs to joining of the Slavs to Byzantine culture by accepting Christianity. The initial division of literary works into the works, for example, of juridical type, historical, theological type, with the time required all of them to have artistic expression. Interaction with folklore, with the high level of oral tradition of the Slavs led to the development of artistic qualities of literature and to the broadening of its social functions. Transformation of borrowed genres made foundation for creating first common Slavic original literary works, such as hagiography, record, story, chronicle and others. The influence of Byzantine culture on Slavic culture began later, when the shift had already finished and Slavic literature already existed and was developing. As a result, the Byzantine literary work became the work of local, national literature, which was written, taking into consideration moral and aesthetic ideals, developed by the Slavs.