Bulgarian Contribution in Building the Byzantine Commonwealth in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries.

<p>This thesis examines factors contributing to Bulgaria’s important role and involvement in the creation the Eastern European Orthodox Community under the cultural influence of Byzantine Empire from the middle of ninth century.</p> <p>The study primarily uses original Greek and Latin sources translated either in Old Church Slavonic or in contemporary Bulgarian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian or English. The approach of this thesis places Bulgarian-Byzantine relations in the context of the creation of the Eastern European Orthodox Community, illustrating that adopting and interpreting of Byzantine culture by the Slavic nations is a process of mutual acculturation, with paramount importance for the creation of the European cultural body.</p> <p>The findings indicate that the cultural and political aspirations of the Bulgarian ruling class in the middle of the ninth century combined with the wide Byzantine cultural expansion followed declining Iconoclasm were the main prerequisite factors for the establishment of a Slavonic literature tradition.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

MA (Master of Arts)

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis - unrestricted

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

History

Year dc:date.issued

2003

Author dc:creator

• Murdzhev, Pavel Stoyanov

• bulgarian contribution
• slavica-orthodoxa
• Arts and Humanities
• History

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright by the authors.

Repository record dc:identifier

https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/768

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dc.etsu.edu:etd-1925