The Fourth Crusade in the historical memory of the Eastern Orthodox Slavs
By: Snezhana Rakova ; translated by Peter Skipp
Contributors: Skipp, Peter, translator
Publisher: Tendril Publishing House
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Sofia
Language: eng; bul
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9789549280944
Subjects: Crusade; Historiography; Slavs; History; Orthodox Eastern Church
Work titles: Chetvŭrtii︠a︡t krŭstonosen pokhod v istoricheskata pamet na pravoslavnite slavi︠a︡ni
Description: "he Fourth Crusade in the Historical Memory of the Eastern Orthodox Slavs addresses the unexplored area of the Eastern Orthodox Slavs’ documented attitudes towards the Fourth Crusade and the sack of Constantinople in 1204. Snezhana Rakova has amassed and analyzed all the relevant documents known today originating from Russia, Serbia, Bulgaria and Moldova, that give the picture as seen by contemporaries, followed by its evolution (or lack of such), making it influential until the 18th c. Comparisons are made with relevant Greek and West European sources. The author deals with a rich variety of narratives, i.e. chronicles, hagiography, prophecies, official and ecclesiastical correspondence, and epigraphy; she infers on the historical consciousness of the Mediaeval Slavs, their political propaganda and religious identity. Five of the most revealing texts are appended, both in their original Old Slavonic version and in English translation: The Anonymous Russian Account of the Capture of Constantinople by the Franks, Archbishop Antony of Novgorod’s Pilgrim’s Book [Kniga Palomnik (A description of Constantinople in 1200)], The Nikon Chronicle (Excerpts), A Serbian Sixteenth-Century Chronograph (Excerpts), and The Brancović Chronicle (Excerpts)."
Notes: Translation of: Chetvŭrtii︠a︡t krŭstonosen pokhod v istoricheskata pamet na pravoslavnite slavi︠a︡ni / Snezhana Rakova.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-274) and index.