The Beginning of Written Slavic
Horace G. Lunt
The lucid account of the Moravian mission Constantine–Cyril and Methodius that Professor Dvornik has given is a persuasive up–to–date statement widely accepted views. Yet scarcely single specialist would be willing to agree unhesitatingly with all details even in such brief résumé quarter-century relations between emerging Slavic nations their neighbors. Indeed, some, as his footnotes suggest, might take exception certain major points. difficulty lies our historical sources–in paucity, unclear allusions, omissions, and, worst all, contradictions. First so little ninth–century material survived we are dependent on views written decades or centuries after events. Then, contemporary writings have come down us modified form, owing varying amounts recopying editing, inevitable distortions, reinterpretations, interpolations.
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