История славянской письменности в работах Н. И. Толстого
The history of Slavic writing in the work of Nikita I. Tolstoy

Summary/Abstract: This article will present the longtime research by Nikita I. Tolstoy in the history of pre-standard Slavic literature. That research was based on his concept of Slavia Orthodoxa as a homogeneous cultural area. Its culture was taken to be very different from the cultural paradigms of non-orthodox Slavia or Western Europe. Tolstoy´s approach is compared here with the official Soviet doctrine of the history of Russian literary language (this view is still being subscribed to). A comparative approach of this kind will hopefully help discover methodological leaks of the Soviet doctrine and will also underpin the need for a broad and comparative approach that includes the whole area of Slavia Orthodoxa.

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