Year: 2008
Author: The team of authors under the ed. Florin Curta, Roman Kovalev
Genre: History of the Middle Ages / History of Eastern Europe / History of the nomads of Europe / Collection of articles
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
ISBN: 1872-8103; 978 90 04 16389 8
English language
Format: PDF
Number of Pages: 492

Relying on archaeological and narrative sources, the authors of this collection offer a new look at some of the most interesting aspects of the history of medieval nomads of Eastern Europe.

Preface .................................................................................................. ix
Introduction ........................................................................................ 1
Florin Curta

Confl ict and coexistence: the local population of the Carpathian Basin under Avar rule (sixth to seventh century) .......................... 13
Tivadar Vida
Avar chronology revisited, and the question of ethnicity in the Avar qaganate ...................................................................................... 47
Peter Stadler

New remarks on the flow of Byzantine coins in Avaria and Walachia during the second half of the seventh century .............. 83
Peter Somogyi
Bulgars in the Lower Danube region. A survey of the archaeological evidence and of the state of current research ....... 151
Uwe Fiedler
Avar-age metalworking technologies in the Carpathian Basin (sixth to eighth century) .................................................................... 237
Orsolya Heinrich-Tamaska
Two worlds, one hoard: what do metal finds from the foreststeppe belt speak about? .................................................................... 263
Bartłomiej Szymon Szmoniewski
The earliest Avar-age stirrups, or the “stirrup controversy” revisited ............................................................................................... 297
Florin Curta
A note on the “Hungarian sabers” of medieval Bulgaria .............. 327
Valeri Iotov
Danube Bulgaria and Khazaria as part of the Byzantine oikoumene ............................................................................................ 339
Veselina Vachkova
From ‘steppe’ to Christian empire and back: Bulgaria between 800 and 1100 ....................................................................................... 363
Tsvetelin Stepanov
A broken mirror: the Kıpcak world in the thirteenth century ..... 379
Dimitri Korobeinikov
The Cuman bishopric—genesis and evolution ............................... 413
Victor Spinei
References ........................................................................................... 457
List of contributors ............................................................................. 483
Index .................................................................................................... 485

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