The Slavic Letters of St. Jerome [electronic resource] : the history of the legend and its legacy, or, How the translator of the Vulgate became a Slav / Julia Verkholantsev.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Origins: enigmatic apostolate -- The "mission" -- "And every tongue shall confess to God" -- The alphabet -- The liturgy -- The controversy -- The Slavonic rite in Bohemia -- The Slavonic rite in Poland? -- The bifurcation of Slavic writing: Glagolitic and Cyrillic -- Croatia: empowering myth -- The arrival of the Slavonic rite in Croatia -- The Roman Slavonic rite of the Glagolite clergy -- Sts. Cyril and Methodius as Slavic apostles in Croatia -- Cyril and Methodius in historical sources -- The legend is created: sources -- The legend is created: historical setting -- "Letters alone in books renew the past" -- Bohemia: imperial aspirations -- The Roman Slavonic rite in Prague -- "Monasterium sancti Hieronymi slavorum ordinis Benedicti" -- Patron saints of the Slavonic Monastery of St. Jerome -- The Slavic theme in Charles's representation of Bohemia's sacred history -- The theology of the Slavonic Monastery's murals -- Glagolitic, Cyrillic, and Latin letters at the Slavonic Monastery of St. Jerome -- St. Jerome's Slavic alphabet, the nobilis lingua Slauonica, and the Czech bible -- The cult of St. Jerome in Bohemia beyond the Slavonic Monastery -- St. Jerome in literary sources of Bohemian provenance -- Implications of St. Jerome's recognition as a Slav in Bohemia -- Silesia: a provincial exploit -- The Slavonic Monastery -- Hypotheses -- Poland: in Prague's footsteps -- The Slavonic Monastery of the Holy Cross at Kleparz: sources and evidence -- The cult of Sts. Cyril and Methodius in Poland: hypothesis and evidence -- Catholic mission to the Orthodox Rus: hypothesis and evidence -- The Roman Slavonic rite as memorial to Slavic christianity -- Jadwiga: patron of the monastery -- The Czech trend -- The Slavic vernacular -- Decline -- St. Jerome as a Slavic apostle -- Conclusion.

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