A history of the First Bulgarian Empire - 1930

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Quite possibly one of Sir Steven Runciman's best works, this book clearly, cleverly, and intelligently portrays a history of the rise of the Bulgarian state, from its formation out of a Hunnish tribe, through its civilization from the Byzantine Empire, through its legacy as the cultural center of the Orthodox Church to the Slavs, to its rival with the Byzantine Empire itself. Thoroughly readable, Runciman adds wit, intelligence, and historical humor to produce a book written on a topic little covered in the English language. Anyone who can get their hands on this hard-to-find book will not want to let it go. Why this book has not been republished is something I will never understand. Here we learn that it was Bulgaria, not Russia, not was the first student and benefactor from the Byzantine Commonwealth. A must-have addition.

Contents
Map of Bulgaria during the First Empire
Title page..

Preface
dedicated by gracious permission to Boris III, Tsar of the Bulgarians

Book I The children of the Huns
1. The five sons of King Kubrat
2. Barbarians in the Balkans

Book II The great powers of Europe
1. An Emperor’s skull
2. Excursion into the West
3. The auction of souls

Book III The two eagles
1. Emperor of the Bulgars and the Romans
2. Men of god and men of blood
3. The end of an empire

Epilogue

Apendices:

1. Original sources for early Bulgarian history
2. The Bulgarian Princes’ list
3. Ernach and Irnik
4. Christianity among the Slavs before the ninth century
5. Bulgar titles
6. The Great fence of Thrace
7. Leo the Armenian’s successful campaign
8. Malamir and Presiam
9. The Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabets
10. Symeon’s imperial marriage scheme
11. Tthe peace of 927 and Peter’s title
12. The chronology of the Emperor Nicephorus Phocas’s Bulgarian wars
Bibliography: Abbreviations — Original sources — Modern works
Index

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