Женското ктиторство в средновековна България
The Feminine Donorship in Mediaeval Bulgaria

Summary/Abstract: The article makes an attempt to collect and analyse all the facts about the feminine donorship in Mediaeval Bulgaria and to obtain maximum information out of it. In correspondence with this aim the donorship is divided into two aspects. From the one side the author tries to find out the place of the phenomenon in the spiritual life of the women in the Bulgarian kingdom in the Middle Ages. The donorship is looked upon as a specific manifestation of a non-ceremonial religious behaviour and the motives, determining its existence are revealed. On the basis of the available sources the evolution in the social expression of the women in the foundership process is followed, as they become generally known to the society because of the portraits with which they are immortalized. The second aspect analyses the data about the feminine donorship and concerns the problem of the participation of the women in the economic life of Mediaeval Bulgaria. Donorship and economic activity seem incompatible, but the religious gifts contain information about the use of money by the women and this is pointed in the article.

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