The voices of medieval Bulgaria, seventh-fifteenth century : the records of a bygone culture / Kiril Petkov.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Petkov, Kiril, 1964-

Series:

East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450 ; 5.

East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, 1872-8103 ; v. 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bulgaria--History--To 1393--Sources.

Bulgaria.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 573 pages) : maps

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume is the first comprehensive collection to gather together the records of the medieval Bulgarian centuries in English translation. Stone annals, works of religious instruction, anti-heretical treatises, apocrypha, royal charters, as well as numerous graffiti and marginal notes, shed abundant light onto a major cultural tradition of the European southeast from the seventh to the fifteenth century. Produced by Bulgarians of all walks of life, the evidence testifies, among other things, to the unique features of Bulgarian historical consciousness, political custom, and religious sensibility as well as the country’s conformity to the broad currents of medieval Europe’s cultural development and evolution. The volume furnishes a fundamental reading for all those interested in the historical destiny of the “other” Europe.

Contents:

Pagan period, ca. 600-864 : migrations, settlement, and consolidation of the State (documents 1-33)

Conversion, expansion, political ideology, and social conditions during the first Bulgarian tsardom, 864-1018 (documents 34-102)

Byzantine rule in the Bulgarian lands, 1018-1185 (documents 103-121)

Restoration, expansion, decline, and conquest : second Bulgarian tsardom, 1185-1396 (documents 122-253).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [549]-563) and index.

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-283-06111-2

9786613061119

90-474-3375-0

OCLC:

706480400

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004168312.i-574 DOI