Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents vii
3. Introduction ix
4. Part I. Bones of Contention, or Professionals, Dilettantes, and Who Owns History
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. A “Social Drama” at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences 9
7. 2. From Breach to Crisis 39
8. 3. No Redress, or Where Are Levski’s Bones? 65
9. 4. A Socialist Public Sphere? 83
10. 5. “Professionals” and “Dilettantes” 109
11. 6. Recognizing the Schism, or What Is Worse: Bad Professionals or Good Nationalists? 139
12. Part II. The Apostle of Freedom, or What Makes a Hero?
13. Introduction 175
14. 1. What Is a Hero and Are Heroes Born? 185
15. 2. The “Making” of Vasil Levski 203
16. 3. A Banner for All Causes: Appropriating the Hero 237
17. 4. Contesting the Hero 267
18. 5. The Literary and Visual Hypostases of the Hero 289
19. 6. From Hero for All to Dissident and Back 307
20. Part III. The National Hero as Secular Saint: The Canonization of Levski
21. Introduction 347
22. 1. The Split, or How a Bicephalous Organism Functions 359
23. 2. The Canonization and Its Implications 373
24. 3. Levski and the Bulgarian Church: Memory and Narration 399
25. 4. The Orchestration of a Grassroots Cultus 429
26. 5. Commemoration, Ritual, and the Sacred 447
27. Conclusion 503
28. Appendix
29. I. The Scholarly Consensus on the 1956 Excavations until the 1980s in the Writings of Stamen Mikhailov: A Critical Analysis 515
30. II. The Discussion at the Academy of Sciences: 10, 12, and 27 February 1986 528
31. III. Letter of 20 Bulgarian Historians to Todor Zhivkov, 4 May 1987 562
32. IV. Poems Written by Citizens on the Topic of Levski’s Grave 567
33. V. Letter of Radka Poptomova, April 1987 571
34. VI. Letter of the Medieval Archeology Section at AI, June 2001 576
35. VII. The Double-headed Hierarchy of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church (1996–2004) 577
36. VIII. School Questionnaires on Levski 579
37. Index 587
38. Plates 601