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Background. Medieval Serbia is an heir of Constantine the Great's Byzantium, the eastern part of the Roman Empire.Serbian Old Church Slavonic literature was created on Byzantine model, and at first church services and biblical texts were translated into Slavic, and soon afterward other works for Christian life values from which they attained necessary knowledge in various fields (including ...
Serbo-Croatian is a pro-drop language with flexible word order, subject–verb–object being the default. It can be written in either localized variants of Latin ( Gaj's Latin alphabet, Montenegrin Latin) or Cyrillic ( Serbian Cyrillic, Montenegrin Cyrillic ), and the orthography is highly phonemic in all standards.
The Cyrillic alphabet was used to write the Old Church Slavonic language, and was later adapted to write many other languages. Old Church Slavonic was used as the liturgical language of the Russian Orthodox church between the 9th and 12th centuries. A more modern form of the language, known as Church Slavonic, appeared during the 14th century ...
Ostromir Gospel from Novgorod (1057) The oldest translation of the Bible into a Slavic language, Old Church Slavonic, has close connections with the activity of the two apostles to the Slavs, Cyril and Methodius, in Great Moravia in 864–865. The oldest manuscripts use either the so-called Cyrillic or the Glagolitic alphabets.
T. Textual criticism of the Primary Chronicle. Treatise Against the Bogomils. Categories: Medieval literature by language. Old Church Slavonic language. European literature. Church Slavonic language.
A page from the Zograf Codex with text of the Gospel of Luke. The Glagolitic script ( / ˌɡlæɡəˈlɪtɪk /, [2] ⰃⰎⰀⰃⰑⰎⰉⰜⰀ, glagolitsa) is the oldest known Slavic alphabet. It is generally agreed that it was created in the 9th century for the purpose of translating liturgical texts into Old Church Slavonic by Saint Cyril, a ...
Sources say that Saint Clement was not satisfied with the size of the church and therefore built a new one over it and assigned Saint Panteleimon as its patron saint. Tomb of Saint Clement. Saint Clement used his newly created church as a liturgical building and a place for teaching his disciples in Old Church Slavonic and Glagolitic alphabet.
