Runciman's "A History of the First Bulgarian Empire" (1930)

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The complete text of one of the best English-language works on Bulgarian history, "A History of the First Bulgarian Empire" (1930) by English historian S. Runciman can be found here. I reckon it is too long to be posted in its entirety on the forum.

A history of the First Bulgarian Empire

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Steven Runciman (G. Bell & Sons, London 1930)

Contents

Map of Bulgaria during the First Empire

Title page..

Preface

dedicated by gracious permission to Boris III, Tsar of the Bulgarians

Book I The children of the Huns
1. The five sons of King Kubrat
2. Barbarians in the Balkans

Book II The great powers of Europe
1. An Emperor’s skull
2. Excursion into the West
3. The auction of souls

Book III The two eagles
1. Emperor of the Bulgars and the Romans
2. Men of god and men of blood
3. The end of an empire

Epilogue

Apendices:
1. Original sources for early Bulgarian history
2. The Bulgarian Princes’ list
3. Ernach and Irnik
4. Christianity among the Slavs before the ninth century
5. Bulgar titles
6. The Great fence of Thrace
7. Leo the Armenian’s successful campaign
8. Malamir and Presiam
9. The Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabets
10. Symeon’s imperial marriage scheme
11. Tthe peace of 927 and Peter’s title
12. The chronology of the Emperor Nicephorus Phocas’s Bulgarian wars

Bibliography: Abbreviations — Original sources — Modern works
Index