title: Political and practical literacy
abstract: During the early Middle ages, the new written culture was adopted on the periphery of the Roman Empire under circumstances depending upon the political forces active in each one of the successor polities. Beginning with the 6th century, in the former Roman provinces of Dalmatia, Pannonia and Dacia, the Latin legacy of the Western Roman Empire met with Byzantine form of Christianity deeply rooted in the Greek culture. 1 The new powers emerging in the early Middle Ages in the region had their own 