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Intro -- Series Page -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Note On Transliteration -- Abbreviations -- List Of Figures -- Maps -- Introduction -- Inventing Writing -- Inventing Slavonic: Sources For Origins And Textual Practice -- Between Rome And Constantinople -- Conclusions And Addenda -- Chapter Summary -- A Note On Method -- Part One Inventing Slavonic -- 1. Constantine-cyril Today: A Critical Assessment -- 2. The Life Of Constantine-cyril: A New Reading -- The Life Of Cyril As Byzantine Literature Cyril's Education: Learning Perfecting Grace -- Cyril's Disputations: Words And Deeds -- Conclusions: Converting The Silent? -- 3. Learned Saints Between Rome And Constantinople: The Vc In Context -- A Roman Saint -- A Byzantine Argument -- Conclusions -- Part Two Institutionalising Slavonic -- 4. The Myth Of Cyril And Methodios Revisited -- 5. Cyril, Slavonic, And The Pope In The Life Of Methodios -- The Life Of Methodios As Papal Literature? -- 'and Methodios With Him': The Life Of Cyril In The Life Of Methodios -- Methodios And The Slavs 6. Popes, Bishops, And Emperors Between Rome And Constantinople -- Whither Byzantium? -- Latin Hagiography And Missionary Thought -- The Case For Methodian Illegitimacy -- Conclusions -- Part Three Defending Slavonic -- 7. Where Not To Start: Slavonic In Balkan History -- The Life Of Clement -- 8. A Case For Slavonic: The Earliest Defence Of The Alphabet -- A Byzantino-slavic Text? The Sources Of On Letters -- Letters In On Letters -- Tensions In On Letters -- 9. Slavonic And Greek Bookmen In The Tenth-century Balkans -- The Texts Of The Late Ninth- And Tenth-century Balkans On Letters, Audience, And Greek In The Early Medieval Balkans -- Conclusions -- Conclusions -- Epilogue: Pseudo-cyrilo-methodiana Continuatus -- Bibliography -- Index Mirela Ivanova. Also Issued In Print: 2024. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Electronic Reproduction. Oxford Available