All[xv] too often in the west we tend to blur the distinction between the nation and the state; when the Portuguese delegate suggested to the first meeting of the League of Nations that the organisation would be better called the League of States he was told that the difference was too insignificant to bother about. No-one who had any connection with the Balkans would make that mistake. And if this book is called A Concise History of Bulgaria it is also to some degree a concise history of the Bulgarians after they had arrived in the Balkans in the seventh century. For the most part the book concentrates on the various Bulgarian states but it cannot ignore the[xvi] fate of the Bulgarians during the five hundred years when they were part of the Ottoman empire and there was no Bulgaria. Ev... (查看原文)
By[5] the fourth century Roman power was weakening. Internal problems were compound when tribes from the Asiatic steppes raided the north-east of the Balkans. In the following century ultimately fatal damage was inflicted on the Roman body politic by a series of such invaders who included on the Alani, the Goths and the Huns, all of whom were enticed by the prospect of looting the fabled wealth of Byzantium. They failed in that aspiration and soon moved out of the Balkans in search of fresh plunder, but if these invaders were transient, the Slavs who also first appeared in the fifth century, were[8] not. They were settlers. They colonised areas of the eastern Balkans and in the seventh century other Slav tribes combined with the Proto-Bulgars, a group of Turkic origin, to launch a fresh... (查看原文)
1 有用 老大保加利亚 2016-05-20 14:51:32
译者的后记是向民间爱好者服输了么
0 有用 汪达尔人Olaf 2014-06-18 15:14:24
拜占庭对付阿拉伯人，使萨缪尔时期的保加利亚回光返照；拜占庭为了对付诺曼人而征税征兵，导致保加利亚人反抗，建立第二王国。
1 有用 penuntut学生 2021-02-25 14:45:19
我非这方面搞学术的，无力评价内容。只是感觉文字很流畅，即使很多地方翻译明显错误读起来仍然很流畅，可见原文何等简明。小国史有很多超出常人理解的东西，阅读小国史能够开拓人的眼界，使人变得宽容，而小国史最好先从历史比较悠久、统一时间较长的国家读起，比如此书的保加利亚，要是先读南斯拉夫，那得在5个国家中不停串戏。国内很少，值得一读
0 有用 安得其所 2022-04-01 18:50:59
一部简史，翻译多处有小问题，作为了解仍可一读
0 有用 Nîluonkar 2020-10-28 02:53:26
当述及bogomilism（鲍格米勒派）和hesychism（静修主义）时，意识形态就流出来惹——国家、进步与秩序——治理就是一切，一切为了治理。 在来自上层权力的凝视下，异端与异教徒几乎与被赋予了“暴民”身份，如此书写这片的土地上受苦的个体与弱者也就不出乎意料，包括但不限于如下描述： 抵制改善制度的努力、引起改良主义运动和压力、不会激起创造性的知识分子革命、长时间置身事外 → 本质是消极的，不会... 当述及bogomilism（鲍格米勒派）和hesychism（静修主义）时，意识形态就流出来惹——国家、进步与秩序——治理就是一切，一切为了治理。 在来自上层权力的凝视下，异端与异教徒几乎与被赋予了“暴民”身份，如此书写这片的土地上受苦的个体与弱者也就不出乎意料，包括但不限于如下描述： 抵制改善制度的努力、引起改良主义运动和压力、不会激起创造性的知识分子革命、长时间置身事外 → 本质是消极的，不会对教会和国家承担义务，对反击入侵者毫无帮助。当然，最后自然也逃不出民族融合-同化的经典情节。 （这位保守到让我瞠目结舌的盎撒学者，张口就是“政治情况不反应在艺术世界上”，xswl） (展开)