The 10th century was a time of religious radicals. Bulgaria will fight for survival as hermits and heretics reject the very foundations of its power.

The Byzantine Empire faces one of the worst defeats in its history, an emperor is crowned beyond the walls of Constantinople, and Simeon the Great earns his title: this week on BGHP.

Conversion, fratricide, guerrilla warfare, and a rising power in the West are what greet the successors of Omurtag as an era of Bulgarian history draws to a close.