On the Two Easts in the Bulgarian Historical and Cultural Destiny (13th-14th c.)// За двата Изтока в българската историческа и културна съдба (XIII-XIV век) [In Bulgarian] (original) (raw)
2021, 30 години специалност „Културология“. Юбилеен сборник. София: Унив. издателство „Св. Климент Охридски“// ISBN 978-954-07-5320-1.
The author offers some of his vews on the possibilities, difficulties and limitations of adapting criteria of geographical and cultural nature for the study of both historical and cultural phenomena in (Late) Medieval Bulgaria (13th - 14th centuries). In his opinion, in the period between the 7th and the 14th centuries (the First and the Second Bulgarian Tsardom, divided by the period of the Byzantine rule over Bulgaria, 1018-1185) the East and the West had two 'segments', each provisionally called here 'northern' and 'southern'. Despite some influences that came from the southern 'segment' of the West (the lands of modern Italy) esp. in the 14th century, in its 'high' segment Bulgarian culture was permanently marked by the specifics of the Christian Orthodox Tsardom/Empire, which was related to that of the Byzantines, i.e. from the 'southern' segment of the East; however, the Bulgarians imitated and transformed some of its characteristics. Special attention is paid to Hesychasm and its influence over the Byzantino-Bulgarian, and more generally, Byzantino-Slavic Eastern Orthodox community in that same 14th century. In fact the 'northern' segment of the East represented in this period by the Cumans, Mongols, and Tatars failed in leaving some significant influence in the so-called 'high' culture; some of these nomadic and semi-nomadic peoples, and first of all the Cumans, were assimilated by the Bulgarians and became Christians.
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