This volume holds the key to understanding the pre-modern culture of Eastern and Southeastern Europe and presents a wide range of disciplinary viewpoints. Some chapters focus on varieties of language, others on translation techniques, yet others on scribal and collecting practices.

Cyrillic manuscripts are key to understanding the pre-modern cultures of Eastern and Southeastern Europe. This collection, which brings together ten authors from seven different countries, presents a wide range of interdisciplinary viewpoints on the study of manuscripts from the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period (from c. 1000 to c. 1600). Themes include language, translation techniques, and scribal and collecting practices. The chapters provide a unique survey of Cyrillic literacy, encompassing religious and legal texts, as well as their transmission and language. Collectively, this volume provides a broad insight into the current state of scholarship in the field. It will stimulate methodological reflection and further research. This volume is the outcome of a project initiated by the Balkan History Association.

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Antoaneta Granberg has a Ph.D. in Slavic languages (Sofia University, 1992). She is a specialist in Old Church Slavonic, associate professor in Slavic languages at the University of Gothenburg, series editor for Acta Slavica Gothoburgensia, and a working member of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Gothenburg.

Georgi Parpulov (M.A. History, University of Sofia, 1994; Ph.D. Art History, University of Chicago, 2004) studies Greek and Cyrillic manuscripts.

Andrea Radosevic has a Ph.D. in Croatian philology (University of Zagreb, 2013). She is a specialist in Croatian medieval literature, senior research associate at the Old Church Slavonic Institute, associate of the Research Centre of Excellence for Croatian Glagolitism, and a board member of journal Slovo.

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Antoaneta Granberg, Georgi Parpulov and Andrea RadoSevic: Introduction - Kristian Paskojevic: Graphic Changes in the Cyrillic Script: A Case Study of Three Documents from the Croatian State Archive in Dubrovnik - Vladislav Knoll: Early Romanian Cyrillic in the Context of Church Slavonic Spelling - Vuk-Tadija Barbaric and Ivana Eterovic: Early Modern Croatian Cyrillic Lectionaries as Mirrors of Dialect Perception: The Example of the Leipzig Lectionary - Anissava Miltenova: The Slavonic Translation and Textual Tradition of Hesychius of Sinai's Capita de Temperantia et virtute (Cpg 7862) - Olga M. Mladenova: Toward A Textual History of The Sredna-Gora Translation of Damaskenòs St udítes's Treasure: The Etropole Connection - Ekaterina Sergeevna Simonova, Denis Olegovich Tsypkin: Monastic Book Inventories as a Source for the Aesthetics of the Book in Early Modern Russia - Alexandru Pascal: Towards a Reconstruction of the Library of Slavic Manuscripts at the Wallachian Snagov Monastery - Tatiana Nikolova-Houston: South Slavic Manuscript Paratexts as Evidence for The Production and use of Books during the Ottoman Period - Notes on Contributors - Index of Manuscripts and Documents - General Index