The Glagolitic Script: History and Historiography

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the Glagolitic alphabet in the context of Church Slavonic writing. The work examines the structure of the alphabet itself, the history of its creation, blind spots in its history, and also touches on the interaction of the Glagolitic alphabet with the Cyrillic letter and the fundamental biblical influence on the Glagolitic letter. Moreover, the article also examines the question of what factors led to the decline in the popularity of the Glagolitic alphabet, and then almost to its oblivion. Thus, I would also like to note that the goals of the study are not limited to a simple consideration of the above issues, but consist primarily of a systematic analysis of aspects of the topic and the formation of one’s own, possibly new, view of the Glagolitic alphabet and its history.