Selected Writings
Subtitle: Contributions to Comparative Mythology - Studies in Linguistics and Philology, 1972-1982 (Selected Writings / Roman Jakobson)
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: July 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 405
ISBN-13: 9783110106176
Subjects: Language & Linguistics; Language teaching & learning material & coursework; General; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language; Linguistics
First sentence: The Christianization of the Slavs expanded gradually from the 8th until the 13th century, now and then provoking local pagan revolts (in Bohemia soon after its baptism, which dates from the late 9th century, and among the Poles and Eastern Slavs throughout the 11th century), or creating those whimsical combinations of paganism and Christianity labeled in Church Slavonic vocabulary as "double faith" (dvoevrie).