The studies in this volume present some of the major historiographical wars over the medieval Balkan past fought by the historians of competing nation states in the region. ?thnic origins and national makeup of medieval states and disputed regions; ownership of the historical heritage located in or associated with that territory; provenance or national consciousness of important historical personalities; the boundaries of a certain medieval state and its political, religious, and cultural influence on others these are some of the issues around which major clashes between the modern Balkan historiographies recurred. The book is valuable to all those interested in how the medieval past becomes instrumentalized by the national historians in the service of constructing the national canons of history.
Legacy, Tradition, Heritage and the History Writing in the Balkans -
Diana Mishkov.- 2. The Wars over Samuels Kingdom - Roumen Daskalov.- 3. Art
Wars: The Creation of Bulgarian Art History and the Balkan Controversies
Regarding the Medieval Heritage of Macedonia - Tchavdar Marinov.-
4. Skanderbeg. Figures of Paper, Figures of Stone - Nathalie Clayer.-
5. Defending our Lands in Ancient and Medieval Studies: the Albanian Case -
Alexander Vezenkov.- 6. In Search of an Acceptable Past: Bosnian Middle Ages
and National Ideologies - Nedim Rabi.
Diana Mishkova is Professor of History of Southeastern Europe and Director of the Centre for Advanced Study in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Roumen Daskalov is Professor of Modern History at the New Bulgarian University in Sofia, Bulgaria.
