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 "The Legend of Basil the Bulgar-Slayer" |
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| Публикувано | 30.12.03 00:19 |
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Някои нови изследвания за Василий II
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The Legend of Basil the Bulgar-Slayer
Paul Stephenson
£30.00
August 2003 | Hardback | 182 pages 15 half-tones 7 colour plates 3 maps | ISBN: 0521815304
The reign of Basil II (976–1025), the longest of any Byzantine emperor, has long been considered as a ‘golden age’, in which his greatest achievement was the annexation of Bulgaria.
This, we have been told, was achieved through
a long and bloody war of attrition which won Basil the grisly epithet Voulgartoktonos, ‘the Bulgar-slayer’.
In this new study Paul Stephenson argues that neither of these beliefs is true. Instead, Basil fought far more sporadically in the Balkans
and his reputation as ‘Bulgar-slayer’ was created only a century and a half later.
Thereafter the ‘Bulgar-slayer’ was periodically to play
a galvanizing role for the Byzantines, returning to centre-stage as Greeks struggled to establish a modern nation state.
As Byzantium was embraced as the Greek past by scholars and politicians,
the ‘Bulgar-slayer’ became an icon in the struggle for Macedonia (1904–8) and the Balkan Wars (1912–13).
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