The Voices of Medieval Bulgaria, Seventh-Fifteenth Century: The Records of a Bygone Culture (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450) - Hardcover

Petkov, Kiril

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004168311 ISBN 13: 9789004168312

Publisher: Brill, 2008

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Kiril Petkov, Ph.D. in Medieval Bulgarian and Southeastern European History (Sofia, 1994) and Medieval and Early Modern Western European History (NYU, 2002) is Professor of Mediterranean History at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. He has published several articles and two books.

Review

"...Altogether, this is a most valuable work which can only add lustre to the new Brill series in which it sits, East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages (General Editor: Florin Curta)..."
Martyn Rady, Slavonic and East European Review (vol. 89, no. 1, January 2011).

Edition details

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 9004168311
• ISBN 13: 9789004168312
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 574