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- ↑ William H. Brackney (2012) Historical Dictionary of Radical Christianity, Scarecrow Press, 2012, Bogomilsim on pp. 55-56; ISBN 0810871793.
- ↑ John Anthony McGuckin as ed. The Encyclopedia of Eastern Orthodox Christianity, vol. 2, ISBN 1405185392, Wiley, 2011; pp. 82-83.
- ↑ "In the days of the orthodox czar Peter, there lived in Bulgaria a priest named Bogomil..., who was the first to disseminate the heresy in the land of Bulgaria." Thus begins Cosmas's tract against the Bogomils. For more see: Heinrich Fichtenau, Heretics and Scholars in the High Middle Ages, 1000-1200, Penn State Press, 2010, ISBN 0271043741, p. 70.
- ↑ Arnold Joseph Toynbee Constantine Porphyrogenitus and his world 1973 "that the priest Bogomil first began to preach his heresy in Bulgaria in the reign of the Emperor Peter. Since Peter reigned from 927 to 969, Cosmas must have been writing later than 969."
- ↑ Michael Frassetto Heretic lives: medieval heresy from Bogomil and the Cathars to ... 2007 p. 12 "The life of Bogomil is as shrouded in the mists of the past as is that of Cosmas, and, as with Cosmas, what little we know of that life comes from the sermon written against him, and from his teachings. The founder of the heresy is ..."
- ↑ Emil Ivanov Georgiev Literatura na izostreni borbi v srednovekovna Bŭlgariia 1966 - 321 Това можеше да става, докато не бяха познати произведенията на Йеремия. Днес можем да посочим убедителни факти, които говорят, че Поп Богомил и Поп Йеремия са две различни лица. Източниците добре разграничават единия от другия.
- ↑ Zdenko Zlatar The poetics of Slavdom: the mythopoeic foundations of Yugoslavia - 2007 - 494 "There is thus no question, as Emile Turdeanu points out, that "the assertion that Jeremiah was 'a son and disciple of Bogomil' is certainly an interpolation."
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