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Inventing Slavonic : cultures of writing between Rome and Constantinople /

In this meticulously researched study, Mirela Ivanova offers a new critical history of the invention of the Slavonic alphabet. Showing how the alphabet was not invented once, but rather continually contested and redefined in the century following its creation, Ivanova challenges the prevalent nation...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ivanova, Mirela (Historian) (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2024]
Series:Oxford studies in Byzantium.
Subjects:
Slavic languages > Alphabet > History.
Church Slavic language > History.
Europe.
HISTORY.
Alphabets & Writing Systems.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES.
Language teaching & learning.
Language.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Series page
  • Series page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Dedication page
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Note on Transliteration
  • Abbreviations
  • List of Figures
  • Maps
  • Introduction
  • Inventing Writing
  • Inventing Slavonic: Sources for Origins and Textual Practice
  • Between Rome and Constantinople
  • Conclusions and Addenda
  • Chapter Summary
  • A Note on Method
  • Part One Inventing Slavonic
  • 1. Constantine-Cyril Today: A Critical Assessment
  • 2. The Life of Constantine-Cyril: A New Reading
  • The Life of Cyril as Byzantine Literature
  • Cyril's Education: Learning Perfecting Grace
  • Cyril's Disputations: Words and Deeds
  • Conclusions: Converting the Silent?
  • 3. Learned Saints between Rome and Constantinople: The VC in Context
  • A Roman Saint
  • A Byzantine Argument
  • Conclusions
  • Part Two Institutionalising Slavonic
  • 4. The Myth of Cyril and Methodios Revisited
  • 5. Cyril, Slavonic, and the Pope in the Life of Methodios
  • The Life of Methodios as Papal Literature?
  • 'And Methodios with Him': The Life of Cyril in the Life of Methodios
  • Methodios and the Slavs
  • 6. Popes, Bishops, and Emperors between Rome and Constantinople
  • Whither Byzantium?
  • Latin Hagiography and Missionary Thought
  • The Case for Methodian Illegitimacy
  • Conclusions
  • Part Three Defending Slavonic
  • 7. Where Not to Start: Slavonic in Balkan History
  • The Life of Clement
  • 8. A Case for Slavonic: The Earliest Defence of the Alphabet
  • A Byzantino-Slavic Text? The Sources of On Letters
  • Letters in On Letters
  • Tensions in On Letters
  • 9. Slavonic and Greek Bookmen in the Tenth-Century Balkans
  • The Texts of the Late Ninth- and Tenth-Century Balkans
  • On Letters, Audience, and Greek in the Early Medieval Balkans
  • Conclusions
  • Conclusions
  • Epilogue: Pseudo-Cyrilo-Methodiana Continuatus
  • Bibliography
  • Index