Периодизация на българската историопис: в търсене на адекватния културно-исторически модел
Periodization of Bulgarian Historical Writing: In Search of the Right Model of Cultural History

Summary/Abstract: The periodization of Bulgarian historical writing is a problem of secondary importance in the existing historiography studies. The reasons for that can be sought in both the insufficient number of experts and the deliberate, until recently, evasion of the questions connected with the strongly subjected to ideological pressure general periodization theses of the Marxist-Leninist interpretation of historical writing. The author makes an attempt at substantiating the necessity of special studies on the periodization of Bulgarian historical writing. In his opinion the definition of a generalized conception on the evolution of Bulgarian historical writing through a well-grounded periodization outline would create auspicious conditions for the particular studies. The main part of the article is dedicated to the review of the current views on general periodization: the linear-progressive model, the transformation, apocalyptic, cyclic, and linear-regressive ones. The accent is also put on the more significant attempts at working out a periodization scheme for this branch of scholarship as well as on the practice of periodization in foreign historical writing systems. Special attention is paid to the deep crisis the formation conception of social development is going through. The present review expresses the author's conviction that it is impossible to find out a specific model of cultural history that would be right only for the periodization of historical writing. Whatever theoretical model we choose for the periodization of Bulgarian historical writing it will be connected with and will follow the general periodization concepts. In the last part of the article the author substantiates the conception that among the existing general models the most appropriate one for the periodization of Bulgarian historical knowledge is the transformation model which regards the evolution of that knowledge as a movement from the traditional to the modern historical writing.

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