The Slavic Letters of St. Jerome: The History of the Legend and Its Legacy, Or, How the Translator of the Vulgate Became an Apostle of the Slavs

by Julia Verkholantsev

The Slavic Letters of St. Jerome is the first book-length study of the medieval legend that Church Father and biblical translator St. Jerome was a Slav who invented the Slavic (Glagolitic) alphabet and Roman Slavonic rite. Julia Verkholantsev locates the roots of this belief among the Latin clergy in Dalmatia in the 13th century and describes in fascinating detail how Slavic leaders subsequently appropriated it to further their...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875804853
• ISBN13: 9780875804859
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.4" x 10.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher