Byzantium's Balkan Frontier: A Political Study of the Northern Balkans, 900-1204 - Softcover

Stephenson, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 052102756X ISBN 13: 9780521027564

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

This is a narrative political history of the northern Balkans in the period 900-1204. It treats the Balkans as the frontier of the Byzantine empire, and considers imperial relations with the peoples living in the Balkans, including the Serbs, Croats, Bulgarians and Hungarians. It also considers responses to invasions from beyond the frontier: by steppe nomads, from beyond the Danube, and by western powers through Hungary and across the Adriatic sea. The first four crusades, 1095-1204, are considered in some detail, and extensive use is made of archaeology.

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"...Stephenson has incorporated into his work recent sigillographical publications as well as reports on archaeological finds...usefully discussed and analyzed with the help of tables, graphs, and maps of find spots. The book is well written and discussion is concise, and is recommended for all collections." Choice

"...can be lauded both as a successful synthesis of a number of practical, and some theoretical, problems related to Balkan dimensions of the High Middle Ages, and as a thorough new reading of the available written sources, supplemented with overviews of archaeological discoveries made in Southeast Europe during the last decades." Comitatus

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 052102756X
• ISBN 13: 9780521027564
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368