《The Legend of Basil the Bulgar-Slayer》是2010年 Cambridge University Press; Reissue edition出版的一本圖書，作者是 Stephenson, Paul。
基本介紹
- 中文名：The Legend of Basil the Bulgar-Slayer
- 作者： Stephenson, Paul
- 出版社： Cambridge University Press; Reissue edition
- 出版時間：2010年10月
- 頁數：190 頁
- 裝幀：Paperback
- ISBN：9780521158831
內容簡介,圖書目錄,
內容簡介
The reign of Basil II (976-1025), the longest of any Byzantine emperor, has long been considered as a 'golden age', in which his greatest achievement was the annexation of Bulgaria. This, we have been told, was achieved through a long and bloody war of attrition which won Basil the grisly epithet Voulgartoktonos, 'the Bulgar-slayer'. In this 2003 study Paul Stephenson argues that neither of these beliefs is true. Instead, Basil fought far more sporadically in the Balkans and his reputation as 'Bulgar-slayer' was created only a century and a half later. Thereafter the 'Bulgar-slayer' was periodically to play a galvanizing role for the Byzantines, returning to centre-stage as Greeks struggled to establish a modern nation state. As Byzantium was embraced as the Greek past by scholars and politicians, the 'Bulgar-slayer' became an icon in the struggle for Macedonia (1904-1908) and the Balkan Wars (1912-1913).
圖書目錄
Basil and Samuel 21
Basil annexes Bulgaria 32
Victory and its representations 49
Basil the younger porphyrogennetos 66
The origins of a legend 81
Basile apres Byzance 97
Basil and the Macedonian Question 113
Bibliography 138
Index 159
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