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VISIT TO THE MOBILE EXHIBITION "STORIES FROM VERBAL TIMES" AT THE MFA

Two alphabets were used in the Middle Ages in Europe: Latin (or Roman) and Greek. Those were the sacred alphabets of Christianity and all literature was written in Latin or Greek. In the late 9th century, that unwritten rule was broken once and for all. Bulgaria, one of the large states at the time that had recently converted to Christianity, started using two new scripts. The Glagolitic alphabet was brought in by the disciples of its creators: Constantine Cyril and Methodius. Men of letters,...