Bulgarian historiography

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Certified Bulgarian historiography dates back to the 17th century. The question of the existence of original Old Bulgarian historiography from the time of the First Bulgarian State and the Second Bulgarian State is one of the most complex unresolved issues in Medieval studies.[1]

In principle, the terms Bulgarian Historiography and Historiography of Bulgaria overlap, given that until the liberation of Bulgaria there are only two stories (the first of Bulgaria and the second of Bulgarians) written by foreign authors – Blasius Kleiner (1761) and on Konstantin Jireček (1876).

Bulgaria and the Bulgarians are widely attested in medieval chronicles and writings, but their thematic independent history is absent until the 17th century. The first major work concerning Bulgarian history is the Kingdom of the Slavs. It serves to support many other works.[2]

From 1667 dates the first independent Bulgarian history of Petar Bogdan, which is entitled „About the antiquity of the father land and the Bulgarian affairs". It is debatable whether it was printed in Venice at all, but this story remains without any social significance. The author is Bulgarian but a Catholic missionary.[3] It was not until the next 18th century when with the Enlightenment and the rise of nationalism in Europe was composed the so-called „Istoriya Slavyanobolgarskaya", which played a huge role and was of fundamental importance for Bulgarian historiography.

Bulgarian historiography on a scientific basis was placed only in the 19th century before the liberation of Bulgaria. The main credit for this is due to two authors – Spiridon Palauzov with his „Century of the Bulgarian Tsar Simeon", ie. The Golden Age of medieval Bulgarian culture (1852) and Konstantin Jireček with his „History of the Bulgarians" (1876).

References[]

  1. ^ СЪЩЕСТВУВАЛА ЛИ Е ОРИГИНАЛНА БЪЛГАРСКА ИСТОРИОГРАФИЯ? The issue is very complicated. On the one hand, there were literary schools, on the other, the Bulgarian political elite under Tsar Samuel was integrated into the rule of Byzantium during the Komnenos era. Anna Komnene is a descendant of the Cometopuli dynasty by her mother. Since the time of Tsar Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria there are Bulgarian coins however, there are no preserved historiographic works that may and purposefully have been destroyed similarly to Bogomil literature.
  2. ^ History by don Mavro Orbini of Ragusa, abbot of the Venetian Order, which shows the origin of almost all Slavic-speaking peoples, with the many and many different wars that they waged in Europe, Asia and Africa, the progress of their kingdoms, the ancient their religion and the time of their conversion to Christianity. And above all, one can see the successes of the kings who once ruled in Dalmatia, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, Raška and Bulgaria.
  3. ^ Петър Богдан Бакшев – човекът, който посвети живота си на българския народ.

Further reading[]

  • Cicek, Nazan. "'Bulgarian Horrors' Revisited: The Many-Layered Manifestations of the Orientalist Discourse in Victorian Political Construction of the External, Intimate and Internal Other." Belleten 81.291 (2017): 525–568. online
  • Dimitrov, Georgi. "Bulgarian Society at the Turn of the 21st Century–a Cognitive Challenge: 30 Years after the Collapse of Communism." Southeastern Europe 44.2 (2020): 105–129. online
  • Elenkov, Ivan, and Daniela Koleva. "Historiography in Bulgaria After the Fall of Communism: Did 'The Change' Happen?." Historein 4 (2003): 183–198 online.
  • Genchev, Nikolay. "The Quest for Identity" East Europe. (1967) 16#1 pp 20–22.
  • Millman, Richard. "The Bulgarian massacres reconsidered." Slavonic and East European Review 58.2 (1980): 218–231. online
  • Riis, Carsten. Religion, politics, and historiography in Bulgaria (Columbia Univ. Press, 2002).
  • Whitehead, Cameron Ean Alfred. "The Bulgarian Horrors: culture and the international history of the Great Eastern Crisis, 1876–1878" (PhD Diss. University of British Columbia, 2014) online.
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