PEACE IN THE HOUSE OF JACOB. A Few Remarks on the Ideology of Two Biblical Themes in the Oration ‘On the Treaty with the Bulgarians’ – Assist. Prof. Dr. Kirił Marinow

Who were the Byzantines and the Bulgarians according to the Byzantine point of view? What did connect or divide them?

This paper studies the ideological background of the relationship between the Byzantines and the Bulgarians, their political, religious and, of course, everyday life. The way of life in which the peace was the basis of the human’s everyday life, and war was a disturbance, violence which destroyed the holy order of every time repeating circle of time, circle which guaranteed safeness.

We could called it – standards of coexistence (the basis of the relationships between these medieval societies, the way which would have to characterize their relations, would have to become their common way of living). From the sociological and anthropological point of view the abovementioned standards of coexistence between the Byzantines and Bulgarians would have to influence their everyday life in its whole spread too.