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- Title
LA MÉMOIRE LITTÉRAIRE DE L'EUROPE ET CELLE DES BULGARES.
- Authors
ZAÏMOVA, Raïa
- Abstract
The article discusses the influence of the Western historiographers of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment on the making of the Bulgarian ethnic and national identity. According to the author, modern historiography and scientific study singled out the Byzantine-Slavic influence on the Bulgarian ethnic and cultural identity, discarding the Ottoman-Islamic influences judged as backward. The Encyclopedias and other Humanist scientific texts formed a collective memory based on a biased definition of the Bulgarian identity. This collective memory cut out Bulgarians populations outside the Balkan Peninsula such as the Bulgarians of the Volga region who are now asking for the recognition of their Bulgarian origins.
- Subjects
BULGARIA; BALKAN Peninsula; NATIONALISM &; historiography; HISTORY of historiography; HUMANISTS; NATIONALISM &; collective memory; NATIONALISM; TURKISH civilization; EUROPEAN civilization -- Byzantine influences; CIVILIZATION
- Publication
Balkan Studies / Études Balkaniques, 2010, Vol 46, Issue 3, p146
- ISSN
0324-1645
- Publication type
Article