ДВА ЕТАПА НА ПРЕДВЪЗРАЖДАНЕТО В БЪЛГАРИЯ
TWO STAGES OF THE PRE-RENAISSANCE IN BULGARIA

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the two stages of the Pre-Renaissance in Bulgaria as an ideological movement and their manifestations in literary and historical monuments. In the first of them, the Hagiology (Житието) of the Serbian prince Stefan Lazarevic is being analyzed. It is written in 1431 by the Bulgarian writer Konstantin Kostenechki the Philosopher (Constantine of Kostenets) and is called by us Biography – Chronicle. In this work the influence of the ancient culture can be clearly discerned and generally the new traits of European Pre-Renaissance in relation to the Human and History. The second stage of the Bulgarian Pre-Renaissance takes its course in XVII century. It is represented by authors well educated in Italy, Bulgarians by birth and of Catholic faith. They write works in Latin which are dedicated to the Bulgarian history and oriented towards the religious and patriotic propaganda among the Bulgarian Catholics in Northwest Bulgaria. This Pre-Renaissance is closer to a degree to the Baroque but in Bulgaria it applies above all to the architecture, especially in Plovdiv. Due to political and religious reasons both stages of the Pre-Renaissance neither develop nor turn into a Renaissance. The evolution of the Bulgarian Renaissance in XIX century is in broad outlines self-contained.

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