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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Florin Curta |
| ISBN: | 0521802024 9780521802024 |
| OCLC Number: | 45283024 |
| Description: | xxv, 463 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Series Title: | Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought. |
| Responsibility: | Florin Curta. |
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Table of Contents:
Contents … vii
List of figures … ix
List of tables … xiii
Acknowledgments … xiv
List of abbreviations …xv
Introduction … 1
1. SLAVIC ETHNICITY AND THE ETHNIE OF THE SLAVS: CONCEPTS AND APPROACHES … 6
▫ The historiography of Slavic ethnicity … 6
▫ What is ethnicity? … 14
▫ What is ethnie? … 22
▫ Ethnicity, material culture and archaeology … 24
▫ Ethnicity and style … 31
▫ Conclusion … 34
2. SOURCES FOR THE HISTORY OF THE EARLY SLAVS (C. 500—700) … 36
▫ Procopius and Jordanes … 36
▫ The Slavs, the theory of climates, and Constantinople … 43
▫ Slavs or Avars? … 49
▫ The saint and the barbarians … 52
▫ The siege of Constantinople, the campaign diary, and the Wends … 54
▫ The saint and the barbarians again … 61
▫ Later sources … 63
▫ Conclusion … 71
3. THE SLAVS IN EARLY MEDIEVAL SOURCES (C. 500—700) … 74
▫ Slavic raiding during Justinian’s reign … 75
▫ The Avars and the Slavs: raiding activity in the 580s … 90
▫ War against the Sclavenes: Maurice’s campaigns of the 590s … 99
▫ The seventh century … 107
▫ Conclusion … 113
4. THE BALKANS AND THE DANUBE LIMES DURING THE SIXTH AND SEVENTH CENTURIES … 120
▫ Urban change in the Balkans … 121
▫ Cities: the archaeological evidence (Figure 1) … 124
▫ Changing cities, rural settlements, and monasteries … 142
▫ The limes and the sixth-century Balkans … 150
▫ Procopius and the limes … 151
▫ The limes and the Balkans: an archaeological survey (Figure 2) … 155
▫ Inflation in the Balkans and the end of the limes: the evidence of coin hoards … 169
▫ Conclusion … 181
5. BARBARIANS ON THE SIXTH-CENTURY DANUBE FRONTIER: AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY … 190
▫ The Carpathian Basin … 190
▫ The Avars … 204
▫ The steppe north of the Black Sea … 208
▫ Conclusion … 223
6. ELITES AND GROUP IDENTITY NORTH OF THE DANUBE FRONTIER: THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE … 227
▫ Dating the change: where were the earliest Slavs? … 228
▫ “Slavic” bow fibulae in Eastern Europe … 247
▫ Grubenhäuser, pots, and clay pans: material culture in action … 276
▫ Conclusion … 307
7. “KINGS” AND “DEMOCRACY”: POWER IN EARLY SLAVIC SOCIETY … 311
▫ “Military democracy”: useful concept or Procrustean bed? … 312
▫ Segmentary society: ideology or actuality? … 319
▫ Great-men, big-men, and chiefs … 325
▫ Conclusion … 332
CONCLUSION: THE MAKING OF THE SLAVS … 335
▫ Migration … 335
▫ Ethnicity and ethnie: the view from the inside … 338
▫ The Slavic ethnie: the view from the outside … 346
Appendix A: List of settlement features used in the seriation by correspondence analysis … 351
Appendix B: Handmade and wheelmade pots used for shape analysis … 366
References … 372
Index … 451
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