Походната библиотека на Цар Симеон
Tsar Simeon’s traveling library

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the question of the existence of a traveling library accompanying Tsar Simeon (893-927) during his military campaigns. In this relation, it is indicated what kind of books have been carried or written in camp con¬ditions by eminent commanders and rulers before and after Simeon: Alexander III of Macedon, Caesar, Napoleon, etc. The study presents the hypothesis that in the final years of his rule, the Bulgarian tsar carried an impressive historical collection during his battle actions that he compiled around 921. That collection consisted of current, in terms of Simeon’s military-political intentions, works such as the Old Testament books Pentateuch and Tsardoms, The Alexandria (a novel about Alexander III of Macedon) and Joseph Flavius’s History of the Judean War which tells the story of the siege and the seizing of the sacred city of Jerusalem by the legions of Rome.

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