The blinded state : : historiographic debates about Samuel Cometopoulos and his state (10th-11th century) /

The blinded state : : historiographic debates about Samuel Cometopoulos and his state (10th-11th century) / / by Mitko B. Panov.

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This book is a revisionist account of Samuel's State and the legendary struggle between Samuel Cometopoulos and Basil II (10th-11th century). It goes beyond the standard approach to the study of state formation, presenting an entirely new analytical framework which interrogates how contemporari...

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Panov, Mitko
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2019.
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450 55.
Subjects:
Samuil Bulgarien, Zar (DE-588)119238829 Basileios II. Byzantinisches Reich, Kaiser (DE-588)120911450 Geschichtsschreibung (DE-588)4020531-9
Physical Description:1 online resource (476 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright page
  • Acknowledgements
  • Illustrations
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Samuel's State in the Contemporary Sources
  • Samuel's State in The Byzantine Ideology: Basil II and the Construction of Identity
  • Basil versus Samuel: Constructing Legends and Traditions in the Medieval Balkans
  • Samuel's Multiple Faces: Sympathetic Ruler and God's Sinner
  • Rediscovering the Dark Side of Samuel
  • Absolving Samuel
  • Resurrecting Samuel
  • An Antidote for Balkan Nationalisms: Samuel and the Struggle for National Consciousness in Macedonia
  • Under Samuel's Shadow: The Blinding Continues
  • Conclusion
  • Back Matter
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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