Medieval Bulgarian literature

In the late 9th, the 10th and early 11th century literature in Bulgaria prospered, with many books being translated from Byzantine Greek, but also new works being created.

Many scholars worked in the Preslav and Ohrid Literary Schools, creating the Cyrillic script for their needs.

Another important work is Zakon Sudnyi Liudem, the oldest preserved Slavic legal text, written in Old Bulgarian in the late ninth or early tenth century, probably in Bulgaria.

However, after the establishment of the Second Bulgarian Empire followed another period of upsurge during the time of Patriarch Evtimiy in the 14th century.

Evtimiy founded the Tarnovo Literary School that had a significant impact on the literature of Serbia and Muscovite Russia, as some writers fled the Bulgarian-Ottoman Wars.