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Description

1. x, 464 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map; 25 cm.

Summary

1. "This book is a revisionist account of Samuel's State and the legendary struggle between Samuel Cometopoulos and Basil II (10th-11th century). It goes beyond the standard approach to the study of state formation, presenting an entirely new analytical framework which interrogates how contemporaries in the Balkans at different times, ranging from the Byzantine and Balkan elites of the medieval centuries to later voices in the early modern and modern periods, have represented Samuel's polity in the service of their own political agendas and territorial aspirations towards Macedonia. The wide-ranging relationship between culture, identity and power are addressed, making use not just of Balkan literary and artistic traditions but on writings from across the Slavic world and western political and intellectual contexts. Demonstrating the conflicted legacy of the Samuel's State in the Balkans, Mitko B. Panov questions established scholarly opinion and offers new interpretations that reconsider its place in Byzantine and Balkan history and imagination"--

Series statement

1. East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, 1872-8103 ; volume 55

Uniform title

1. East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450 ; v. 55.

Alternative title

1. Historiographic Debates about Samuel Cometopoulos and His State (10th-11th Century)

Subject

1. History
2. Europe > Macedonia
3. Historiography
4. Balkan Peninsula > History
5. Samuil, Czar of Bulgaria, -1014
6. 168 B.C.-1389 A.D
7. Basil > II, > Emperor of the East, > approximately 958-1025
8. Macedonia > History > 168 B.C.-1389 A.D
9. Byzantine Empire > History > 527-1081
10. Byzantine Empire > Historiography

Genre/Form

1. History.

Contents

1. Samuel's state in the contemporary sources -- Samuel's state in the Byzantine ideology : Basil II and the construction of identity -- Basil versus Samuel : constructing legends and traditions in the Medieval Balkans -- Samuel's multiple faces : sympathetic ruler and God's sinner -- Rediscovering the dark side of Samuel -- Absolving Samuel -- Resurrecting Samuel -- An antidote for Balkan nationalisms : Samuel and the struggle for national consciousness in Macedonia -- Under Samuel's shadow : the blinding continues.

Call number

1. JFE 19-8070

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-451) and index.

Author

1. Panov, Mitko (Mitko B.), author.

Title

1. The Blinded State : Historiographic Debates about Samuel Cometopoulos and His State (10th-11th Century) / by Mitko B. Panov.

Publisher

1. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

Copyright date

1. ©2019

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, 1872-8103 ; volume 55
2. East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450 ; v. 55.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-451) and index.

Chronological term

1. 168 B.C.-1389 A.D.

Other form:

1. Online version: Panov, Mitko (Mitko B.). Blinded state. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019] 9789004394292 (DLC) 2019000991

LCCN

1. 2018061033

Other standard identifier

1. 40029041453

ISBN

1. 9789004278783 (hardback ; alk. paper)
2. 9004278788 (hardback ; alk. paper)

Research call number

1. JFE 19-8070