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Istoriko-Filologicheskoe Issledovanie "Skazaniia o Pis`menakh" Konstantina Filosofa Kostenetskogo
[ Letters and Orthodoxy : Historico-philological study of Pletenije Sloves (Story of Letters) by Constantine Kostenetskii]
Moscow: Iazyki Slavianskoi Kul`tury, 2001 372 p. [7 ill.] Serie: Studia Historica Hardcover. 14 x 21 cm ISBN: 5785902206 Language: Russian
This monograph studies one of the most unusual and difficult South Slavic manuscripts and, at the same time, one of the most important sources on the literary and linguistic culture of Orthodox Slavs in the Middle Ages. The monograph focuses on the ideas of Constantine Kostenetskii and his manuscript "Pletenije Sloves" about the origin, nature and value of the Church Slavonic language and literacy. Seven illustrations. Bibliographic index (pp. 325-361). Pavel Lukin (b. 1967) teaches at the Department of Southern and Western Slavs in Moscow University. Name index.
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