Byzantine Missions Among the Slavs
Title | Byzantine Missions Among the Slavs PDF eBook |
Author | Francis Dvornik |
Publisher | |
Pages | 526 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
With the help of the reader, two detectives search for the letters of the alphabet.
Greek East and Latin West
Title | Greek East and Latin West PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Louth |
Publisher | St Vladimir's Seminary Press |
Pages | 428 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780881413205 |
"This volume gives an account of the Church in the period from the end of the Sixth Ecumenical Synod in 681 to the Battle of Manzikert in 1071. Although "Greek East" and "Latin West" are becoming distinct entities during this expanse of time, the author treats them in parallel, observing the points at which their destinies coincide or conflict. The author notes developments within the whole of the Church rather than striving simply, or even primarily, to explain the eventual schism between Eastern and Western Christendom. Coveriing events both unique to each part (the Iconoclastic controversy in the East and the rise of the Carolingian Empire in the West) and common to each part (monastic reform, renaissance, and mission) the author skillfully portrays two Christian civilizations that share much in common yet become increasingly incomprehensible to one another. Despite curious synchronisms between East and West, the author demonstrates how two paths diverged from a once common route, and how eventually Byzantine Orthodoxy defined the Greek East over and against the Latin West in theological, religious, cultural, and political terms." -- Provided by publisher.
The Entry of the Slavs Into Christendom
Title | The Entry of the Slavs Into Christendom PDF eBook |
Author | A. P. Vlasto |
Publisher | CUP Archive |
Pages | 456 |
Release | 1970-10-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521074599 |
Dr Vlasto reviews the early history of the various Slav peoples (from about AD 500 onwards) and traces their gradual emergence as Christian states within the framework of either West or East European culture. Special attention is paid to the political and cultural rivalry between East and West for the allegiance of certain Slav peoples, and to the degree of cultural exchange within the Slav world, associated in particular with the use of the Slav liturgical language. His examination of all the Slav peoples and extensive use of original source material in many different languages enables Dr Vlasto to give a particularly comprehensive study of the subject.
The Collapse of the Moravian Mission of Saints Cyril and Methodius, the Fate of the Disciples, and the Christianization of the Southern Slavs
Title | The Collapse of the Moravian Mission of Saints Cyril and Methodius, the Fate of the Disciples, and the Christianization of the Southern Slavs PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Neil Scott |
Publisher | |
Pages | 702 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Early Slavs
Title | The Early Slavs PDF eBook |
Author | Paul M. Barford |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 444 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780801439773 |
The final chapter sets the early medieval developments into the perspective of the history and culture of modern Europe. A series of specially compiled maps chart the main cultural changes taking place over six centuries in this relatively unknown part of Europe."--BOOK JACKET.
Atlas of Medieval Europe
Title | Atlas of Medieval Europe PDF eBook |
Author | David Ditchburn |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2002-09-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1134806922 |
Covering the period from the fall of the Roman Empire through to the beginnings of the Renaissance, this is an indispensable volume which brings the complex and colourful history of the Middle Ages to life. Key features: * geographical coverage extends to the broadest definition of Europe from the Atlantic coast to the Russian steppes * each map approaches a separate issue or series of events in Medieval history, whilst a commentary locates it in its broader context * as a body, the maps provide a vivid representation of the development of nations, peoples and social structures. With over 140 maps, expert commentaries and an extensive bibliography, this is the essential reference for those who are striving to understand the fundamental issues of this period.
Inventing Slavonic
Title | Inventing Slavonic PDF eBook |
Author | Mirela Ivanova |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 295 |
Release | 2024-01-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0198891563 |
Few alphabets in the world are actively celebrated, and none more so than the Slavonic. Annually across Eastern Europe, the alphabet and its inventors, Cyril and Methodios, are celebrated with parades, concerts, liturgical services, and public addresses by presidents, ministers, and mayors. Inventing Slavonic: Cultures of Writing Between Rome and Constantinople offers a new reading of the invention of the Slavonic alphabet and its implications. Its premise is simple: namely, that the alphabet was not invented once, but that it continued to be contested and redefined in the century after its creation. However, Inventing Slavonic goes against the grain of modern scholarship and popular common sense, where a stable and fossilized story about Cyril, his brother and companion Methodios, and the alphabet still persists. Mirela Ivanova shows that this well-known story is, in fact, a Frankenstein's monster, bolted together from texts which originally attributed quite different and often conflicting meanings to the elements which make up this supposedly unified narrative. In this narrative's place, the book offers a series of new readings of our earliest sources for the alphabet's appearance. In doing so, it constructs a new social history of the early script's fragility, and the ways in which its existence was conditioned by changes in socio-political life between Rome and Constantinople.