Archimandrite Pavel Stefanov

The Voices of Medieval Bulgaria, Seventh-Fifteenth Century: The Records of a Bygone Culture
Tr. and ed. Kiril Petkov
Leiden, Brill, August 2008, i, xviii, 1, 574 pp.
Series:    East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, 5
ISSN:    1872-8103
Cover: Hardback
List price:    € 135.00 / US$ 197.00
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Readership
All those interested in medieval history, Slavic literatures, epigraphics, the culture of Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, as well as students of Byzantine and Eastren Mediterranean history.
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About the author(s)
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.
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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 instructions, 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.