The Slavic Printers in Venice in the Optics “Us and Others” Cover Image

Славянските печатари във Венеция в оптиката „ние и другите“
The Slavic Printers in Venice in the Optics “Us and Others”

Author(s): Mariyana Tsibranska-Kostova
Subject(s): Historical Linguistics, 16th Century, Theory of Literature
Published by: Slavistický ústav Jána Stanislava Slovenskej akadémie vied
Keywords: Early Venetian Cyrillic printing; otherness; cultural interations;

Summary/Abstract: This paper analyses data from the prefaces and afterwords of the Venetian Cyrillic printed books between 1519/20 and 1572 in purpose of establishing how notions of otherness and identity are modeled in and through language. The assumption is that behind the concentration of multilingual books in the 16th century capital of the European printing lies the coming together of people from different ethnicity. Complex intercultural interactions emerge between printers and men of letters involved in the dissemination of books through the printing press. The aim is to clarify how the emigrant status of the Cyrillic book in Venice and of its creators manifests itself.

  • Issue Year: 58/2023
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 308-315
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Bulgarian