За „Словото на св. Кирила и Методия“, изречено от Кузмана Шапкарев в Кукуш на 1866 г.
For the “Speech about St. Cyril and St. Methodius” Given by Kuzman Shapkarev in the City of Kukush on 11th May 1866

Summary/Abstract: The Baptizing of Bulgarians is a widely interpret subject in Bulgarian and in foreign medieval texts. The first part of the article is focused at the appearance of that subject in “Slavonic-Bulgarian History“ by Paisius of Hilendar, furthermore – the ethno-saving function of the story of St. Cyril and St. Methodius in the chapter called “For the Slavic Teachers“. This function is linked with the subject of the direct participation of St. Cyril and St. Methodius in the Baptizing of Bulgarians. The truth or the inveracities are defined according to the real facts which today’s science possesses. Then an analysis is given of their later 100-year projection in the works of some Bulgarian Renaissance writers and publishers. Again, the aim of this projection is ethno-saving, but there is a spiritually unifying power which transforms into a political support in the years before the Liberation. That’s why in the second part of the article the focus is at the “Speech of St. Cyril and St. Methodius“ given by Kuzman Shapkarev in the city of Kukush on 11th May 1866.

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