The Letters of the Bulgarians
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The present book is concerned with the reconstruction of the history of the Bulgarian state, based on written monuments from Bulgaria as well as from foreign origin. An illustrative example for this approach is how a historian will think after a thousand years in the future, if he has a random collection of writings from our days for instance newspapers, official documents, or relief inscriptions from recent monuments. To extract reliable information clearly the historian has to realize and overcome three problems:
First, different documents are written on different languages. The symbols receive meaning only if we know how they are pronounced and which meaning the words have.
Second, frequently the same name of a person or geographical term is written in a quite different manner (for instance Germania in Bulgarian and Deutschland in German).
Third, the written records reflect the point of view of the author or of the official propaganda of the corresponding state – not necessarily the absolute truth. So, for instance the victories could be over emphasized in own works, but under emphasized in foreign works.
The present study by Bono Skodrov starts with a detailed comparison of the form and the appearance of the writing signs themselves. This allows establishing the relation and the mutual influence of different alphabets over time. Further, the book continues with a comparative investigation of the content of different documents and comparisons of the documents of different authors, describing the same events.
