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the voices of medieval bulgaria seventh fifteenth century the records of a bygone culture
this volume is the first comprehensive collection to gather together the records of the medieval bulgarian centuries in english translation . stone annals works of religious instructions anti heretical treatises apocrypha royal charters as well as numerous graffiti and marginal notes shed abundant light onto a major cultural tradition of the european southeast from the seventh to the fifteenth century . produced by bulgarians of all walks of life the evidence testifies among other things to the unique features of bulgarian historical consciousness political custom and religious sensibility as well as the countrys conformity to the broad currents of medieval europes cultural development and evolution . the volume furnishes a fundamental reading for all those interested in the historical destiny of the other europe .