Medieval Rus′

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Language of early Rus′

Horace G. Lunt. “On the relationship of Old Church Slavonic to the written language of Early Rus′.” Russian linguistics 11. 1987. 133–62.

Corrigenda to Lunt’s appendix:

Item 8b, OCS column should read lat- (not olt-)
Item 12a, Old ESlav column should read тобѣ, собѣ (it is blank in the original)
Item 12b, Old ESlav column should read мънѣ (it is blank in the original)

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Franklin, Simon. 1985. Literacy and documentation in early medieval Russia. Speculum vol. 60, no. 1. 1–38. (JSTOR: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2852132)
Franklin, Simon. 2002. Writing, society and culture in early Rus, c. 950–1300. Cambridge, U.K. and New York: Cambridge University Press. P211.3.K54 F73 2002.
Trubetzkoy, Nikolai. 1951. The Common Slavic element in Russian Culture. Edited by Leon Stilman. New York: Columbia University. PG43 .T865 1951a.
Worth, Dean S. 1993. “([Church] Slavonic) writing in Kievan Rus′.” Christianity and the eastern Slavs, Vol. I. Slavic cultures in the Middle Ages. Ed. Boris Gasparov and Olga Raevsky-Hughes. (California Slavic studies, XVI.) Berkeley: University of California Press. 141–53. PG13 C153c.