Tradition historique et apocalyptique reconsidérée. Les compilations bulgares médiévales des sources byzantines
Historical and Apocalyptic Traditions Reconsidered: Medieval Bulgarian Compilations of Byzantine Sources

Summary/Abstract: Historical-apocalyptic writings in Bulgarian lands originated as compilations or translations of Byzantine Greek sources in order to understand the course of Christian history and the place of the Bulgarian kingdom among the Christian kingdoms of the Balkans and the world. Their appearance is a typical phenomenon and is characteristic of times of turning points, wars, uprisings and disturbances in a broad period from the 10th to the early 18th century. The compilations are based on basic texts which are the models for their creation: the Apocryphal Apocalypse of John the Theologian, the Revelation of Pseudo-Methodius of Patara, Interpretation of St. Hippolytus of Rome on the Book of Daniel, the Exposition (Narrative) of the Antichrist by the same author, etc. In the composition of the texts, attention should be paid to certain common places (topoi), which constitute a kind of centre around which the predictions about the nature and course of historical events are gathered.

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