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The Blinded State
Historiographic Debates about Samuel Cometopoulos and His State (10th-11th Century)
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This book is a revisionist account of Samuelâs State and the legendary struggle between Samuel Cometopoulos and Basil II (10th-11th century). It goes beyond the standard approach to the study of state formation, presenting an entirely new analytical framework which interrogates how contemporaries in the Balkans at different times, ranging from the Byzantine and Balkan elites of the medieval centuries to later voices in the early modern and modern periods, have represented Samuelâs polity in the service of their own political agendas and territorial aspirations towards Macedonia. The wide-ranging relationship between culture, identity and power are addressed, making use not just of Balkan literary and artistic traditions but on writings from across the Slavic world and western political and intellectual contexts. Demonstrating the conflicted legacy of the Samuelâs State in the Balkans, Mitko B. Panov questions established scholarly opinion and offers new interpretations that reconsider its place in Byzantine and Balkan history and imagination.
Mitko B. Panov, Ph.D. (1995), Institute of National History, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, is Full Professor of Byzantine and Medieval Studies. He has published many studies in books and journals, including âByzantine Macedoniaâ, in Macedonia. Millennia Cultural and Historical Facts (Skopje, 2013).
All interested in the history of Byzantium and the medieval and modern Balkans and anyone concerned with the legendary struggle between Basil II and Samuel. The book is of interest of wide audience of scholars, students and policymakers interested in the history of Byzantium and the Balkans, from medieval, early modern and modern perspective.