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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458912903321

Autore

Petkov Kiril <1964->

Titolo

The voices of medieval Bulgaria, seventh-fifteenth century [[electronic resource] ] : the records of a bygone culture / / by Kiril Petkov

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston [Mass.], : Brill, 2008

ISBN

1-283-06111-2

9786613061119

90-474-3375-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (592 p.)

Collana

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

Disciplina

949.9/01

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Bulgaria History To 1393 Sources

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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).

Sommario/riassunto

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.