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Bunčić, Daniel ORCID: 0000-0002-1090-8907 (2017). Linksläufige kyrillische Schrift bei den Bogumilen? In: Im Rhythmus der Linguistik: Festschrift für Sebastian Kempgen zum 65. Geburtstag, pp. 115-134. Bamberg: University of Bamberg Press. ISBN 978-3-86309-485-0

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Abstract

In his famous book on scripts and religion, Mieses (1919: 325) reports that “The Manichaean-Bogomil Bulgarians left behind some inscriptions in a Cyrillic script written from right to left rather than from left to right”. In my quest to find these inscriptions through a web of imprecise quotations without references, I found out that what he meant were actually members of the Bosnian Church. Indeed, in Bosnia one can find exactly two inscriptions that look inverted, on a stećak for Vlatko Vlađević and a tomb slab for Pavao Komlinović. After considering other possible explanations for the reversed inscriptions (secret writing, magic, direction of objects), the unspectacular solution seems to be that the stonemasons engraving the letters were illiterate and made technical mistakes. A brief inspection of other cases of “schismatic” changes in writing direction cited by Mieses reveals that none of them is actually caused by a change in religion, and his hypothesis can be rejected completely. — An English version of the paper is available at https://doi.org/10.18716/omp.64.9 (clickable link below).

Item Type:	Book Section
Translated title:	Title Language Right-to-left Cyrillic among the Bogomils? English
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Bunčić, Daniel daniel.buncic@uni-koeln.de https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1090-8907 91271482
Editors:	Editors Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Meyer, Anna-Maria UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Reinkowski, Ljiljana UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-373166
Identification Number:	10.20378/irb-59993
Title of Book:	Im Rhythmus der Linguistik: Festschrift für Sebastian Kempgen zum 65. Geburtstag
Series Name:	Bamberger Beiträge zur Linguistik
Volume:	16
Page Range:	pp. 115-134
Date:	2017
Publisher:	University of Bamberg Press
Place of Publication:	Bamberg
ISBN:	978-3-86309-485-0
Language:	German
Faculty:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Fächergruppe 5: Moderne Sprachen und Kulturen > Slavisches Institut
Subjects:	Language, Linguistics Other languages
Related URLs:	https://doi.org/10.18716/omp.64.9
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/37316