Кирило-методиевските традиции в епохата на Българското предвъзраждане
The Cyrillo-Methodian Traditions in the Early Period of the Bulgarian National Revival

(A Culturological Aspect)

Summary/Abstract: The spiritual content of the Bulgarian way to Europe as a an irrevocable direction of national development did not sever its links with Europe after the end of the 14th c., when Bulgaria was finally conquered by the Ottoman Empire. The links with the Europe of the Renaissance, of Humanism, and of the Enlightenment in the early period of the Bulgarian National Revival did not emerge by chance and were not limited in their scope. The period in the 15th–17th cc. called by Bulgarian literary historians after the liberation in 1878 "an epoch of dark yoke" was overcome by the emergence of important culturological factors and phenomena – the Slavonic (including Bulgarian) printed books and the literature of the Bulgarian Roman Catholic men of letters, which was based on the patriotic guideline in literature in which one detects also the Cyrillo-Methodian literary traditions. These tendencies help the Bulgarians overcome their feeling for "a lost historical time", a time lost in the epoch of Ottoman political and Greek cultural expansion, and although they receive a colouring of national sentiment (I am referring to the so-called "Bulgarization of the cultus of the Slavonic apostles Cyril and Methodius") at the same time they bring Bulgarian written culture into association with the spirit and the culturological ideas of the Europe of the Enlightenment and the Renaissance.

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