Восстановление средневекового болгарского государства (1185–1204) в современной болгарской историографии.

Abstract

The paper examines peculiarities of the Bulgarian historiography, since 1985, concerning the establishment of the Second Bulgarian Empire. During the 1980s the subject was treated predominantly in “patriotic” spirit, in terms of “liberation” from the Byzantine “yoke”, described within the Marxist paradigm. During the 1990s and after 2000 two main tendencies can be observed: breaking the “taboos” of the past and entering the realm of contemporary Western scholarship.