Format:
Online-Ressource (xxi, 600 p., [16] p. of plates)
,
ill. (some col.)
ISBN:
1283248131
,
9781283248136
Content:
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Bones of Contention, or Professionals, Dilettantes, and Who Owns History -- 1. A "Social Drama" at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences -- 2. From Breach to Crisis -- 3. No Redress, or Where Are Levski's Bones? -- 4. A Socialist Public Sphere? -- 5. "Professionals" and "Dilettantes" -- 6. Recognizing the Schism, or What Is Worse: Bad Professionals or Good Nationalists? -- Part II. The Apostle of Freedom, or What Makes a Hero? -- 1. What Is a Hero and Are Heroes Born? -- 2. The "Making" of Vasil Levski -- 3. A Banner for All Causes: Appropriating the Hero -- 4. Contesting the Hero -- 5. The Literary and Visual Hypostases of the Hero -- 6. From Hero for All to Dissident and Back -- Part III. The National Hero as Secular Saint: The Canonization of Levski -- 1. The Split, or How a Bicephalous Organism Functions -- 2. The Canonization and Its Implications -- 3. Levski and the Bulgarian Church: Memory and Narration -- 4. The Orchestration of a Grassroots Cultus -- 5. Commemoration, Ritual, and the Sacred -- 6. Heroes and Saints: the Dialectics of Reincarnation -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- I. The Scholarly Consensus on the 1956 Excavations until the 1980s in the Writings of Stamen Mikhailov: A Critical Analysis -- II. The Discussion at the Academy of Sciences: 10, 12, and 27 February 1986 -- III. Letter of 20 Bulgarian Historians to Todor Zhivkov, 4 May 1987 -- IV. Poems Written by Citizens on the Topic of Levski's Grave -- V. Letter of Radka Poptomova, April 1987 -- VI. Letter of the Medieval Archeology Section at AI, June 2001 -- VII. The Double-headed Hierarchy of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church (1996-2004) -- VIII. School Questionnaires on Levski -- Index -- Plates.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1283250233
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789639776241
Additional Edition:
Print version Todorova, Maria Bones of Contention : The Living Archive of Vasil Levski and the Making of Bulgaria's National Hero New York : Central European University Press,c2008
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
