Юбилейните сборници като свидетели на епохата. Към въпроса за рецепцията на Кирило-Методиевската традиция в модерната българска култура
Jubilee Collections as Witnesses of the Epoch. On the Question of reception of the Cyrillo-Methodian Tradition in Modern Bulgarian Culture

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyses the thematic trends and uses the “grant narrative” about St. St. Cyril and Methodius represented in jubilee collections prepared in their honour and published after 1944, as the focus is on the figure of St. Cyril. It is noted that the official story about their work is built on two techniques: marginalization and shifting of meanings, and so it is stressed that the primary interpretive principle is nation-centric, as it fits into the National Revival model of functionalization of the Cyrillo-Methodian myth which is Enlightenment in its core. Special attention is paid to the vague use of terms such as „education“ and „progress“ which are associated with the phenomenon of “basic concepts” (R. Koselleck) in the field of Begriffsgeschichte. In conclusion, it is poited out that the analysis of the jubilee discourse can reveal not only the problems related to the history of the Cyrillo-Methodian tradition in Bulgaria, but also the more general question, which is the question of its functionalization in terms of modernity by using simplified key political and social concepts.

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