[Review]

0586356 - SLÚ 2025 RIV DE eng R - Book Review
Knoll, Vladislav
[Review].
[IVANOVA, Mirela.: Inventing Slavonic. Cultures of Writing between Rome and Constantinople (Oxford Studies in Byzantium). Oxford, 2024. 247 s.]. The Byzantine Review. Roč. 6 (2024), s. 201-211. ISSN 2699-4267
Institutional support: RVO:68378017
Keywords : Old Church Slavonic * Constantine and Methodius * Great Moravia * Church Slavonic Studies
OECD category: Specific languages
Method of publishing: Open access

The book reviewed, entitled “Inventing Slavonic″, purports to explain the origin of Slavonic writing and culture. In reality, it provides a detailed analysis of three texts from the beginnings of Slavonic writing: the Life of Constantine, the Life of Methodius and the monk Hrabr's treatise On Letters. The review of a book published by Oxford University Press analyses the consistency of the book and evaluates its theses from the perspective of a Slavonic philologist. Special attention is given to the explanation of the Czech scholarly and lay interpretation of the Cyrillo-Methodian mission on the basis of both current school textbooks and scholarly works. Since the author of the book under review has doubts about the continuity of the Cyrillic-Methodist legacy in Central Europe, this question is also addressed in a few words. At the end of the review, I present the book's features, which are an illustration of the current fashionable trends in international scholarship.
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