Inventing Slavonic
Author | : Mirela Ivanova |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2024-02-08 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780198891505 |
ISBN-13 | : 0198891504 |
Rating | : 4/5 (504 Downloads) |
Download or read book Inventing Slavonic written by Mirela Ivanova and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-08 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 nationalist historiography that has built up around it.