Master Narratives of the Middle Ages in Bulgaria

Roumen Daskalov, Ph.D. (1988), Sofia University “Kliment Ohridski”, is Professor at the New Bulgarian University. He has published two monographs on the historiography of Bulgaria and the Balkans (CEU Press) and co-edited Entangled Histories of the BalkansVol. I-IV (Brill, 2013–2017).

• ContentsAcknowledgementsList of MapsNote on TransliterationIntroduction: The History of Historiography, Historical Master Narratives, and This Book1 The History of Historiography and the Narrativist Turn2 Grand and Master Narratives and the “Nationalization” of History3 Master Narratives of the Middle Ages4 Master Narratives of the Bulgarian Middle Ages1 “Romantic” History-Writing and the Beginnings of a “Critical” Historiography of the Middle Ages in Bulgaria1 “Romantic” Historiography2 The Beginnings of a “Critical” Historiography and Fragments of a Master Narrative2 The Establishment of the Master National Narrative1 Vasil Zlatarski2 Petăr Mutafchiev3 Petăr Nikov4 The Young Ivan Duychev3 The Attempt at a Marxist Master Counter-Narrative after World War II1 The Marxist “Historical Front” and the Ideological Offensive2 The Establishment of the Marxist/Stalinist Master Counter-Narrative3 Relations between Bulgars and Slavs and the Character of the State4 The Conversion to Christianity and the Byzantine Influence5 Ubiquitous Feudalism and Its Revision6 The End of the Bulgarian Middle Ages and Ottoman Feudalism7 Class Struggles: Bogomilism and Ivaylo’s Peasant Uprising8 The Work of Cyril and Methodius and the Beginnings of Communist Nationalism4 Communist Nationalism and the Return to the Master National Narrative1 The Turn toward Communist Nationalism2 Statehood3 Continuity4 The Bulgarian Ethnogenesis5 The Return of the Bulgars6 Great Rulers and “Golden Ages”7 The Bulgarianization of the Work of Cyril and Methodius8 The Byzantine Influence ReconsideredEpilogue: New Trends in the Historiography of the Middle Ages in Bulgaria1 The “Rewriting” of the History of the Middle Ages in Bulgaria2 Curiosities and Speculations3 Everyday Life, Women’s History4 Representations and Images of the Other5 New Approaches to the Ethnogenesis6 Taking Religion Seriously7 The “Philosophy” of Bulgarian History8 Making Sense of Bulgarian Medievalist HistoriographyMapsBibliographyIndex