''The Book of Boril'' or ''Boril Synodic'' () is a medieval

Bulgaria Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern portion of the Balkans directly south of the Danube river and west of the Black Sea. Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey t ...

n book from the beginning of the 13th century. It is an important source for the history of the

Bulgarian Empire Bulgarian Empire may refer to: * First Bulgarian Empire The First Bulgarian Empire (; was a medieval state that existed in Southeastern Europe between the 7th and 11th centuries AD. It was founded in 680–681 after part of the Bulgars, led b ...

. The book was written in conjunction with the Synod of Tarnovo (1211) convoked by

tsar Tsar (; also spelled ''czar'', ''tzar'', or ''csar''; ; ; sr-Cyrl-Latn, цар, car) is a title historically used by Slavic monarchs. The term is derived from the Latin word '' caesar'', which was intended to mean ''emperor'' in the Euro ...

Boril against the

Bogomils Bogomilism (; ; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", bogumilstvo, богумилство) was a Christian neo-Gnostic, dualist sect founded in the First Bulgarian Empire by the priest Bogomil during the reign of Tsar Peter I in the 10th century. I ...

in 1211. Later additions and editions were made, dated at the end of XIV c.{{Cite journal, last=Totomanova, first=Anna-Maria, title=The Synodikon of Orthodoxy in Medieval Bulgaria, journal=Studia Ceranea, issue=7, year=2017, pages=169–227, language=en, url=https://www.czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/sceranea/article/viewFile/3029/2635, format=PDF, accessdate=2018-10-20, doi=10.18778/2084, issn=2084-140X

References

External references

excerpt from Boril's book

Institute of History at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

1211 books Bogomilism Bulgarian manuscripts Medieval Bulgarian literature Church Slavonic manuscripts Church Slavonic literature