A history of the First Bulgarian Empire
By: Sir Steven Runciman.
Publisher: Bell
Published: 1930
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 337
Subjects: Bulgaria -- History -- 681-1018.; Bulgaria -- History -- To 1393.
Description: xii, 337 p., folded map ; 23 cm.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 307-323.
Table of contents: title: Preface … v; title: Contents … xi; title: ◦; title: BOOK I. THE CHILDREN OF THE HUNS … 1; title: I. The five sons of King Kubrat … 3; title: II. Barbarians in the Balkans … 22; title: BOOK II. THE GREAT POWERS OF EUROPE … 45; title: I. An emperor’s skull … 47; title: II. Excursion into the west … 71; title: III. The auction of souls … 99; title: BOOK III. THE TWO EAGLES … 131; title: I. Emperor of the Bulgars and the Romans … 133; title: II. Men of god and men of blood … 184; title: III. The end of an empire … 217; title: EPILOGUE … 255; title: APPENDICES: … 263; title: I. Original sources for early Bulgarian history … 265; title: II. The Bulgarian Princes’ List … 272; title: III. Ernach and Irnik … 279; title: IV. Christianity among the Slavs before the ninth century … 281; title: V. Bulgar titles … 284; title: VI. The great fence of Thrace … 288; title: VII. Leo the Armenian’s successful campaign … 290; title: VIII. Malamir and Presiam … 292; title: IX. The Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabets … 297; title: X. Symeon’s imperial marriage scheme … 299; title: XI. The peace of 927 and Peter’s title … 301; title: XII. The chronology of the emperor Nicephorus Phocas’s Bulgarian wars … 303; title: Bibliography … 307; title: Index … 325; title: Map of Bulgaria during the first empire … at end