Historical Master Narratives and the Master Narrative of the Bulgarian Middle Ages

Daskalov, Roumen

dc.contributor.author	Daskalov, Roumen
dc.date.accessioned	2021-08-27T10:03:03Z
dc.date.available	2021-08-27T10:03:03Z
dc.date.issued	2020-12-23
dc.identifier.issn	2084-140X
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11089/38904
dc.description.abstract	The article is a brief and schematic presentation of the notion of a “master narrative” and of the master narrative of the Bulgarian Middle Ages, which is the subject a detailed book of mine in Bulgarian. This master narrative was constructed starting with what is known as “Romantic” historiography (from Monk Paisij’s “Istorija Slavjanobolgarskaja” [Slavonic-Bulgarian History] in 1762 to Vasil Aprilov’s writings in the first half of the nineteenth century) but it was elaborated especially with the development of “scientific” (or critical) historiography first by Marin Drinov (1838–1906) and mainly by the most significant Bulgarian historians from the “bourgeois” era: Vasil Zlatarski (1866–1935), Petăr Mutafčiev (1883–1943), and Petăr Nikov (1884–1938). Then it was interrupted by the (crude) Marxist counter-narrative of the late 1940s through the 1960s. Starting in the late 1960s there was a gradual return to the nationalism of the master national narrative, which reached a peak with the celebration of the 1,300th anniversary of the founding of the Bulgarian state in 1981. The same line continued after 1989 (stripped of the Marxist vulgata), yet some new tendencies appeared.	en
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego	pl
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Studia Ceranea. Journal of the Waldemar Ceran Research Centre for the History and Culture of the Mediterranean Area and South-East Europe	en
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subject	master narrative	en
dc.subject	grand narrative	en
dc.subject	metanarrative	en
dc.subject	counter-narrative	en
dc.subject	Bulgarian Middle Ages	en
dc.subject	King Samuil	en
dc.subject	Khan Asparuh	en
dc.subject	Khan Kubrat	en
dc.subject	Tsar Simeon the Great	en
dc.subject	Tsar Ioan Asen II	en
dc.subject	San Stefano Treaty	en
dc.subject	Ivaylo’s peasant uprising	en
dc.subject	Bogomil heresy	en
dc.subject	Tsar Asen I	en
dc.title	Historical Master Narratives and the Master Narrative of the Bulgarian Middle Ages	en
dc.type	Article
dc.page.number	259-280
dc.contributor.authorAffiliation	New Bulgarian University	en
dc.identifier.eissn	2449-8378
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dc.contributor.authorEmail	roumen.daskalov@gmail.com
dc.identifier.doi	10.18778/2084-140X.10.12
dc.relation.volume	10