Ivan Aleksand&amp;#259;r (1331-1371)
Journal: Biblioteca di Studi slavistici
Year: 2010

The long reign of Ivan Aleksand&amp;#259;r (1331-1371), the penultimate emperor of Bulgaria prior to the Turkish conquest, was marked by a series of successful military campaigns against Serbia and Byzantium and above all by an intensive cultural production, largely fostered and funded by the sovereign himself. The central decades of the fourteenth century were of crucial importance for the later cultural evolution of Bulgaria and the whole of Orthodox Slovenia, despite which to date ample and e