The legend of Basil the Bulgar-Slayer
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The legend of Basil the Bulgar-Slayer
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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