Author Description

Medieval and Byzantine studies in Bulgaria in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: historiographical introduction / Vassil Giuzelev -- Religious aspects of medieval state ideology in the European southeast / Georgi Bakalov -- The Byzantines as imagined by the medieval Bulgarians / Petar Angelov -- The relations between the Ottoman conquerors and the Balkan states in the 1370s -1380s: typological aspects / Hristo Matanov -- Byzantine fortresses to the south of the Hemus Mountain in the light of coin finds from the last decades of the sixth century / Yordanka Yurova -- The foundation of the Bulgarian state in Bulgarian medieval historiography / Miliyana Kaimakamova -- The "Avar costume" versus the skaramangion: symbolism of the male aristocratic dress in Bulgarian, ninth-tenth centuries / Liliana V. Simeonova -- The perception of the Bulgarian past in the court of Preslav around 900 AD / Angel Nikolov -- St. Peter (927-969), tsar of the Bulgarians / Ivan Biliarsky -- Patronage and monastic geography in Bulgaria in the late ninth and tenth centuries / Rossina Kostova -- The Du Cange catalogue / Vasilka Tapkova-Zaimova -- The first two centuries of the archbishopric of Ohrid / Iliya Iliev -- What do we know abut the Athonite Slavs in the Middle Ages? / Cyril Pavlikyanov