Matching in the Old Bulgarian Law (on the Law for Judging People and the Slavic Eclogue)

The article examines the changes that occurred in the relative institution of matchmaking after the conversion of the Bulgarians. The analysis is built based on the old Bulgarian legal monuments Law on judging people and the Slavic Eclogue. Ethnographic data from the 19th century, which also document both changes and preserved older elements in the kinship system of matchmaking, are cited as evidentiary material.

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Annual of the Faculty of History of St Cyril and St Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo
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2025-04-16
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https://doi.org/10.54664/bwvq2364
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Byzantine Studies and History
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Matching in the Old Bulgarian Law (on the Law for Judging People and the Slavic Eclogue)

Mariya Ivanova
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Annual of the Faculty of History of St Cyril and St Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo
Byzantine Studies and History
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Matching in the Old Bulgarian Law (on the Law for Judging People and the Slavic Eclogue)

Mariya Ivanova
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Abstract

The article examines the changes that occurred in the relative institution of matchmaking after the conversion of the Bulgarians. The analysis is built based on the old Bulgarian legal monuments Law on judging people and the Slavic Eclogue. Ethnographic data from the 19th century, which also document both changes and preserved older elements in the kinship system of matchmaking, are cited as evidentiary material.

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