Degree Name
MA (Master of Arts)
Program
History
Date of Award
5-2003
Committee Chair or Co-Chairs
William Douglas Burgess Jr., Henry J. Antikiewicz
Committee Members
Stephen G Fritz
Abstract
This thesis examines factors contributing to Bulgaria’s important role and involvement in the creation the Eastern European Orthodox Community under the cultural influence of Byzantine Empire from the middle of ninth century.
The study primarily uses original Greek and Latin sources translated either in Old Church Slavonic or in contemporary Bulgarian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian or English. The approach of this thesis places Bulgarian-Byzantine relations in the context of the creation of the Eastern European Orthodox Community, illustrating that adopting and interpreting of Byzantine culture by the Slavic nations is a process of mutual acculturation, with paramount importance for the creation of the European cultural body.
The findings indicate that the cultural and political aspirations of the Bulgarian ruling class in the middle of the ninth century combined with the wide Byzantine cultural expansion followed declining Iconoclasm were the main prerequisite factors for the establishment of a Slavonic literature tradition.
Document Type
Thesis - unrestricted
Recommended Citation
Murdzhev, Pavel Stoyanov, "Bulgarian Contribution in Building the Byzantine Commonwealth in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries." (2003). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 768. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/768
Copyright
Copyright by the authors.