ЩРИХИ КЪМ ПОЛИТИЧЕСКАТА И РЕЛИГИОЗНАТА РОЛЯ НА БЪЛГАРСКАТА ЦАРИЦА ТЕОДОРА
DETAILS TO THE POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS ROLE OF THE BULGARIAN QUEENS THEODORA

Summary/Abstract: The present exposition attempts to clarify the role of three queens of the Second Bulgarian Kingdom, who are connected not only by their royal name Theodora, but also to some extent with the legitimation of power, with socio-religious processes and the emerging new doctrine of the so-called political hesychasm in the Eastern Orthodox world. Domestic and foreign sources have been successively studied – manuscripts, postscripts, epigraphic monuments, and miniatures which reflect the life of the three Bulgarian queens Theodora Paleologina, Theodora I Basarab and Theodora II (Sarah) and their reception by their contemporaries. Conclusions are drawn, outlining the contours of the historical memory of these three Bulgarian queens’ commitment in relation to the political and spiritual ori¬entation of the Bulgarian ruling court in the context of the complex internal and external situation in the Balkans in the ХІVth century.

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