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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 an

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

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 cha