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Inventing Slavonic: cultures of writing between Rome and Constantinople
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This thesis offers a study of changing ideas about and attitudes toward writing, as they are expressed in the earliest texts concerned with the invention of the Slavonic alphabet and its legendary ninth-century inventor, the Byzantine diplomat, Constantine-Cyril. It is divided into three case studies, each focusing on the three major texts narrating the invention of Slavonic and dating to the late ninth and early tenth centuries: the Life of Constantine-Cyril, the Life of Meth...
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- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
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- Language:
- Greek, Ancient (to 1453) and English
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- Deposit date:
- 2022-05-09
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- Copyright holder:
- Ivanova, M
- Copyright date:
- 2019
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