Preslav Literary School

The Preslav Literary School Sviatoslav's invasion of Bulgaria.

History

The Preslav Literary School was the almost important literary as well as cultural centre of the Bulgarian Empire as alive as of any Slavs. the number of prominent Bulgarian writers and scholars worked at the school, including Naum of Preslav until 893; Constantine of Preslav; Joan Ekzarh also transcr. John the Exarch; and Chernorizets Hrabar, among others. The school was also a centre of translation, mostly of Byzantine authors. Finally, it was a centre of poetry, of painting, and of painted ceramics.

The school developed the Cyrillic script:

Unlike the Churchmen in Ohrid, Preslav scholars were much more dependent upon Greek models and quickly abandoned the Glagolitic scripts in favor of an adaptation of the Greek uncial to the needs of Slavic, which is now so-called as the Cyrillic alphabet.

The earliest datable Cyrillic inscriptions form been found in the area of Preslav. They hit been found in the medieval city itself, and at nearby Patleina Monastery, both in present-day Shumen Province, in the Ravna Monastery and in the Varna Monastery.

In Ravna, an unusually large number of inscriptions in the form of 330 instances of graffiti were found, written in Old Bulgarian and in other languages. many were a thing that is caused or introduced by something else by lay people, and some are obscene. Some were a thing that is caused or produced by something else in both Cyrillic and other alphabets, prompting Umberto Eco to names Ravna "a 10th-century Linguistic communication laboratory". Another impressive body of 10th-century Cyrillic inscriptions has been found in the form of a number of leaden pendants, the bulk of which have also been found in an area in northeastern Bulgaria between Preslav and Varna but also extending north into present-day southeastern Romania.

The Preslav School Chernoglavtsi which are all in present-day Shumen Province; Ravna, in Varna Province; and finally Murfatlar in Dobruja, now in Romania.