The legend of Basil the Bulgar-Slayer

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The legend of Basil the Bulgar-Slayer

Paul Stephenson

Cambridge University Press, c2003

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 138-158) and index

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The reign of Basil II (976-1025), the longest of any Byzantine emperor, has long been considered as a 'golden age', in which his greatest achievement was the annexation of Bulgaria. This, we have been told, was achieved through a long and bloody war of attrition which won Basil the grisly epithet Voulgartoktonos, 'the Bulgar-slayer'. In this 2003 study Paul Stephenson argues that neither of these beliefs is true. Instead, Basil fought far more sporadically in the Balkans and his reputation as 'Bulgar-slayer' was created only a century and a half later. Thereafter the 'Bulgar-slayer' was periodically to play a galvanizing role for the Byzantines, returning to centre-stage as Greeks struggled to establish a modern nation state. As Byzantium was embraced as the Greek past by scholars and politicians, the 'Bulgar-slayer' became an icon in the struggle for Macedonia (1904-1908) and the Balkan Wars (1912-1913).

目次

  • List of illustrations
  • Preface
  • Annotated and translation
  • List of abbreviations
  • 1. Basil the Bulgar-slayer: an introduction
  • 2. Basil and Samuel
  • 3. Basil annexes Bulgaria
  • 4. Victory and its representations
  • 5. Basil the younger, porphyrogennetos
  • 6. The origins of a legend
  • 7. Basile apres Byzance
  • 8. Basil and the 'Macedonian question'
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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