Bulgaria In Rebellion: Ivaylo's Peasant Revolt From the Middle Ages to Contemporary Times
Ivaylo, revolt, peasants, historiography
In 1277, occurred, in Bulgaria, a revolt against the throne of that countrykingdom. Peasants, led by a pig farmer called “Ivaylo”, mobilized to face this enemy, considering them incapable of facing foreign invaders, whom these peasants also fought. After centuries, remains, as a legacy, an entire bibliography that addresses this historical event, and this work selects one of them, the (self-styled) Marxist one, and makes an interpretative effort between what would be propaganda and what would be scientific. In this reading, observations are made on the political and economic structure of the Bulgarian kingdom and the level and essence of the presence of Bulgarian empresses in the sources on the topic discussed are also analyzed.