New Europe College Regional Program 2003-2004 2004-2005 STILYAN DEYANOV GERGANA GEORGIEVA SVETLANA DIMITROVA MUSTAFA FIªNE DIMITAR GRIGOROV HAJRUDIN HROMADŽIĆ MIGLENA IVANOVA . ANGEL NIKOLOV . ORLIN SABEV (ORHAN SALIH) MALAMIR SPASOV ALEXANDER VEZENKOV Editor: Irina Vainovski-Mihai Copyright – New Europe College ISSN 1584-0298 New Europe College Str. Plantelor 21 023971 Bucharest Romania www.nec.ro; e-mail:
[email protected] tel. (+40-21) 327.00.35; fax (+40-21) 327.07.74 ANGEL NIKOLOV Born in 1971, in Sofia, Bulgaria Ph.D., “St Kliment Ohridski” University, Sofia (2002) Dissertation: The Bulgarian Political Ideas, 864 – 971 A. D. Lecturer in Mediaeval History of Bulgaria, Department of History, “St Kliment Ohridski” University, Sofia (2002) British Academy Visiting Fellow (2004) Primary field of interests: mediaeval political theory, East-West religious polemics MEDIAEVAL SLAVONIC ANTI-CATHOLIC TEXTS FROM THE MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION OF THE ROMANIAN ACADEMY On 25 May 1670, Petar Bogdan (1601-1674) arrived in Bucharest “by the grace of God and the will of the Holy Apostolic See Archbishop of Serdica, named of Sofia, Administrator of Thrace and Coastal Dacia, of Transalpine Wallachia, apostolic vicar.”1 This is apparently the last visit of the superannuated Catholic prelate to the capital of the Wallachian principality and his experiences, related several months later (10 November 1670) in a detailed report2 to the Congregation for the Propagation of Faith in Rome, narrate more than the bare facts: through subtlety of detail they reveal a historical and cultural situation, rich in contradictory tendencies, an intricate web of religious, political and personal motives which govern the thoughts and behavior of the ruler, the barons, the metropolitan, and the common people.