Концептът за участието на Св. Св. Кирил и Методий в българското покръстване във възрожденската ни историография (XIX век)
The Concept of the Participation of St. Cyril and St. Methodius in the Bulgarian Baptizing in our Renaissance historiography (19 century)

Summary/Abstract: The Renaissance is that period of our history when the idea of time is changing. It is not a constant anymore. The Bulgarians want change. More like an outside expression of change. Because the inside change is already there. The moral and the moral priorities are changing. The nation is being born and it’s being emancipated. The first corpus (of compilation texts by Paisius, Yeromonah Spiridon and the anonymous compiler of the Zographian history) is a particular mythocompiler. “Slavonic-Bulgarian history” represents St. Methodius as khan Boris’s spiritual teacher. This is a mythology that “legitimizes” past events. The reborning nation is rewriting its history hard, while at least leaving one real event in it and builds the fable around it. St. Methodius is referred to as the direct baptiser of the Bulgarians in the bigger part of the works of the modern Bulgarian historiographers of the 19th century. This can lead us to the indisputable conclusion that, to our Renaissance historiographers until the Liberation, the future liberation (Bulgaria is under Turkish rule) relies on the authority of Cyril and Methodius and the pride of their great deed.

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