Към въпроса за авторството на историческия разказ „Кога и как маркоманите [моравите] прегърнаха Христовата вяра“
To the Question about the Authorship of the Historical Narrative “When and How the Markomans [the Moravians] Embraced the Christian Faith”

Summary/Abstract: The historical narrative “When and How the Markomans [the Moravians] Embraced the Christian Faith” was found in the book-sepository of the Vatican Apostolic Library in 1977. Its discoverer, Bozhidar Dimitrov, thinks that the author of the narrative was the Catholic archbishop of Sofia, the Bulgarian Peter Bogdan Bakshev (1601–1674). As a main proof B. Dimitrov has taken the wrong statement in the narrative that Pope John VIII had authorized the Bulgarians to use their mother tongue in the divine service. В. Dimitrov takes the view that the person most motivated to make this forgery was Peter Bakshev. In this paper the author proves that this statement had its place in the Czech historiography dating back to a period far earlier than that coinciding with the creative work of Bakshev. This circumstance obviously calls the thesis of B. Dimitrov in question. In the paper the author puts forward the supposition that the above-mentioned historical narrative was a brief anonymous extract from the work of Eneus Silvius Piccolomini “A History of Bohemia”.

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