Master narratives of the Middle Ages in Bulgaria
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Master narratives of the Middle Ages in Bulgaria
(East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, v. 75)
Brill, c2021
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-339) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This volume offers a history of historiography, as Roumen Daskalov presents a critical analysis of Bulgarian historiographical views of the Middle Ages to reveal their embeddedness in their historical context and their adaptation to the contemporary circumstances. The study traces the establishment of a master narrative of the Bulgarian Middle Ages and its evolution over time to the present day, including the attempt at a Marxist counter-narrative. Daskalov uses categories of master national narratives, which typically are stories of origins and migrations, state foundations and rises ("golden ages"), and decline and fall, yet they also assert the continuity of the "people", present certain historical personalities (good or evil, "great" or "weak"), and describe certain actions or passivity to others' actions.
Table of Contents
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Maps
Note on Transliteration
Introduction: The History of Historiography, Historical Master Narratives, and This Book
1 The History of Historiography and the Narrativist Turn
2 Grand and Master Narratives and the "Nationalization" of History
3 Master Narratives of the Middle Ages
4 Master Narratives of the Bulgarian Middle Ages
1 "Romantic" History-Writing and the Beginnings of a "Critical" Historiography of the Middle Ages in Bulgaria
1 "Romantic" Historiography
2 The Beginnings of a "Critical" Historiography and Fragments of a Master Narrative
2 The Establishment of the Master National Narrative
1 Vasil Zlatarski
2 Petar Mutafchiev
3 Petar Nikov
4 The Young Ivan Duychev
3 The Attempt at a Marxist Master Counter-Narrative after World War II
1 The Marxist "Historical Front" and the Ideological Offensive
2 The Establishment of the Marxist/Stalinist Master Counter-Narrative
3 Relations between Bulgars and Slavs and the Character of the State
4 The Conversion to Christianity and the Byzantine Influence
5 Ubiquitous Feudalism and Its Revision
6 The End of the Bulgarian Middle Ages and Ottoman Feudalism
7 Class Struggles: Bogomilism and Ivaylo's Peasant Uprising
8 The Work of Cyril and Methodius and the Beginnings of Communist Nationalism
4 Communist Nationalism and the Return to the Master National Narrative
1 The Turn toward Communist Nationalism
2 Statehood
3 Continuity
4 The Bulgarian Ethnogenesis
5 The Return of the Bulgars
6 Great Rulers and "Golden Ages"
7 The Bulgarianization of the Work of Cyril and Methodius
8 The Byzantine Influence Reconsidered
Epilogue: New Trends in the Historiography of the Middle Ages in Bulgaria
1 The "Rewriting" of the History of the Middle Ages in Bulgaria
2 Curiosities and Speculations
3 Everyday Life, Women's History
4 Representations and Images of the Other
5 New Approaches to the Ethnogenesis
6 Taking Religion Seriously
7 The "Philosophy" of Bulgarian History
8 Making Sense of Bulgarian Medievalist Historiography
Maps
Bibliography
Index
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