Le citazioni bibliche nel Poučenie v nedelju syropustnuju. Liturgia, tradizione patristica e memoria collettiva

The article is an attempt to partially recreate collective memory about the Cheesefare feast on the basis of the Poučenie v nedelju syropustnuju (Teaching for Cheesefare Sunday) by metropolitan Nikifor I (†1121). By means of a comparative analysis between biblical quotations used in the text and those used in liturgical celebrations for Cheesefare Saturday and Sunday, as well as Patristic literature devoted to the same liturgical occasion (but also to fasting and related topics), the author has effectively collected a cluster of common references. These very references (composed of biblical liturgical and/or Patristic quotations) may represent one tessera of the mosaic of collective memory associated with Cheesefare week that originated from liturgy and was consolidated in the Patristic tradition.