The Bulgarian Theme in Constantinople's Monuments
The Bulgarian Theme in Constantinople's Monuments

(A new approach in the study of Bulgarian and Byzantine cultural memory)

Summary/Abstract: The article is due to the existence of fairly well known studies on both Bulgarian medieval history and Constantinople and its monuments.The more fundamental motivation, though, stems from the particular purposes of the study: 1. To offer an interpretation the sculptures of Constantinople not as “collectons”, i.e. as artefacts, not even merely as “wonders” (theama), which are nonetheless perceived as artefacts, but as a kind of alternative historical narratives that constitute a durable testimony of the most significant (sometimes traumatic) images in Byzantine cultural memory; 2. To explore the substance and the functions of the monuments in the context of a particular topic - the Bulgarian theme in the “stone memory of Constntinople” – as it can be provisionally called.

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