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Glagolitic Script – Script as System of Medieval Symbols

Constantine Cyril the Philosopher, a Greek intellectual, compiled in the 9th century (862/863) the first phonetic script for Slavs, azbuka, which made it possible to completely record the first Slavic language, the Old (Church) Slavic. The Glagolitic script has quickly after being established become an efficient means of semiotic communication and was at the same time used for Christianisation and in literacy programmes first of all for Slavs in Great Moravia and Pannonia, and then together with the Old (Church) Slavic language expanded among all Slavic peoples/countries, where it was used at least at one period of their history or at least in one part of their home territory. The letters of the Glagolitic Script are tripartite, which means they at the same time mark sounds in the (Old Slavic) language, numbers and lexical names which ordered in a row create a meaningful message: az buky vêdê glagoljǫ dobrê estъ živêti 3êlo zemli which translated means I who know letters say that it is (very) good to live on earth. In accordance with the above, the Glagolitic script will be presented as a philosophical- symbolic system which through its tripartiteness represents basic marks of medieval culture, in the first place Christian worldview, iconic components of the Catholic West, Byzantine culture, and Slavic elements. At the same time, based on the abovementioned, it will be possible to show how the Glagolitic as a script fits into the paradigm of the medieval world that laid the foundations of modern science.

Glagolitic Script ; Old (Church) Slavic language ; medieval culture ; Christian worldview ; semiotic communication

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