The tale of the prophet Isaiah : : the destiny and meanings of an apocryphal text / / by Ivan Biliarsky.
In The Tale of the Prophet Isaiah. The Destiny and Meanings of an Apocryphal Text Ivan Biliarsky proposes an edition of the original text of the medieval apocryphon, together with images of the single manuscript copy. The author also includes a large commentary on the otherwise quite unclear narrati...
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| Superior document: | East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, volume 23 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boston : : Brill,, 2013. |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450 ;
v. 23. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (322 p.) |
| Notes: | "This book is a translation of ... Skazanie na Isaiah proroka i formiraneto na politicheskata ideologija na rannosrednovekovna Bulgaria (=Tale of the prophet Isaiah and the formation of the political ideology of early medieval Bulgaria) ... published in 2011 in Sofia"--Preface. |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Introduction
- The Text of the Literary Work and Its Manuscript Tradition
- Tale of the Prophet Isaiah in the Context of Mediaeval Literature and Modern Researches
- The Chosen People and the Promised Land
- The Divinely Chosen King, Humble to God: Tsar Izot, or Davidic Royalty
- The Renovator King: Tsar Ispor and the Mosaic Royalty: Constantine and the Royalty of the Ruler-Converter to Christianity
- Kings and Their Names
- Conclusion
- The List of Names of the Bulgar Princes: Between Myth and History
- The Birth of the Founding Kings
- The Tabernacle of the Empire or the State-Church
- Bibliography
- Index.