Anonymous Bulgarian Chronicle Explained

Anonymous Bulgarian Chronicle is a term used for several anonymous chronicles written in Bulgaria during the Middle Ages.

11th/12th centuries

The term is used when referring to an apocryphal apocalyptic chronicle written in Bulgaria in the late eleventh or early twelfth century.^{[1] [2]} This work is also known as the "apocryphal Bulgarian chronicle".^[3]

Such chronicles were relatively common in Bulgaria and Byzantium of that period, and their defining characteristic was that they purported to come from a prophet, delivering God's message and announcing that the Apocalypse is near.^[1]

15th century

Several sources refer to an early 15th-century work of that name.^{[4] [5] [6] [7]}

According to Khristov this work is focused on the Ottoman invasion of the Balkans.^[4] Imber, however, is more critical of its coverage of that time period. According to him that work provides a narrative from 1296 to the death of Sultan Bayezid I in 1403 and only has a few brief and rather inaccurate entries focusing on the Ottoman civil war.^[8] This work has been identified it as one of the two important Slavonic literary histories for that time and place.^[8] Due to the relatively undescriptive name, it is possible that Khristov and Imber discuss two different works.

Göyünç, Kreiser and Neumann discuss the work of that name noting that it reaches the year 1417 and that has been "identified as an Old-Bulgarian translation of the Byzantine chronicle of John Chortasmenos.^[9] Another work uses this term to refer to a chronicle covering years 1296–1413.^[10] For the reasons mentioned above, it is not certain whether the scholars in question are discussing a single chronicle, ending in the early 15th century, or several different ones.

See also

• Medieval Bulgarian literature

Notes and References

1. Antoanetta Granberg, Web site: Transferred in Translation. Making a State in Early Medieval Bulgarian Genealogies. http://www.helsinki.fi/slavicahelsingiensia/preview/sh35/pdf/4.pdf , SLAVICA HELSINGIENSIA 35, 2008
2. Book: Yassen Borislavov. Bulgarian wine book: history, culture, cellars, wines. 10 November 2011. 1 January 2004. TRUD Publishers. 978-954-528-478-6. 74.
3. http://archive.ifla.org/VII/s13/pubs/AnonymousClassics2004.pdf Anonymous classics: a list of uniform headings for European literatures
4. Book: Khristo Angelov Khristov. Dimitǔr Konstantinov Kosev. A short history of Bulgaria. 10 November 2011. 1963. Foreign Languages Press. 128.
5. Book: United Center for Research and Training in History. Edinen t︠s︡entŭr za nauka i podgotovka na kadri po istorii︠a︡. Revue bulgare d'histoire. 10 November 2011. 1987. Pub. House of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. 93.
6. Book: Research Programme for Macedonian Studies (New Delhi, India). Macedonian studies. 10 November 2011. 1991. Research Programme for Macedonian Studies. 60.
7. Book: Vernon J. Parry. Malcolm Yapp. Malcolm Yapp. War, technology and society in the Middle East. 10 November 2011. 1975. Oxford University Press. 175. 978-0-19-713581-5 .
8. Book: Colin Imber. The Ottoman Empire, 1300-1481. 10 November 2011. 1990. Isis Press. 978-975-428-015-9. 7.
9. Book: Nejat Göyünç. Klaus Kreiser. Christoph K. Neumann. Christoph K. Neumann. Das osmanische Reich in seinen Archivalien und Chroniken: Nejat Göyünç zu Ehren. 10 November 2011. 1997. In Kommission bei Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart. 978-3-515-07034-8. 32.
10. Book: University of Melbourne. Dept. of Russian and Language Studies. Australian and New Zealand Slavists' Association. Australasian Association for Study of the Socialist Countries. Australian Slavonic and East European studies: journal of the Australian and New Zealand Slavists' Association and of the Australasian Association for Study of the Socialist Countries. 10 November 2011. 1 January 2003. Dept. of Russian and Language Studies, University of Melbourne. 7.