One of the key points of tsar Symeon’s political program was achieving autocephaly for the Bulgarian church and making its head a Patriarch. It is possible that the archbishop of Bulgaria was proclaimed a Patriarch (913) without Byzantine consent, but the sources only allow for attempting to show that this matter was reflected in the peace treaty concluded after Symeon’s death (927) by Peter, his son.
The article is devoted to image of tsar Peter in medieval Bulgarian sources (10th-14th c.). Bulgarian sources did not give modern historians to chance of researching of the Peter’s ruling. They could be useful in studying the cult of tsar Peter and memory about him.
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The article is devoted to image of tsar Peter in medieval Bulgarian sources (10th-14th c.). Bulgarian sources did not give modern historians to chance of researching of the Peter’s ruling. They could be useful in studying the cult of tsar Peter and memory about him.
The article refers to a repeatedly discussed subject of the rebellion staged by John, the son of Simeon I of Bulgaria, against Peter his (?)step-brother. The author of the study has reanalysed sources on the plot for motives of the conspiracy, its scope, attitude of the Byzantine Empire towards the rebellion and John’s fate after the year 928. The conspiracy has been concluded to have primarily been an aspect of the struggle for power amongst the successors of Simeon. which is not supposed to have been instigated by Byzantium in any way.
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