The Other Europe in the Middle Ages: Avars, Bulgars, Khazars and Cumans (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, 2) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004163891 ISBN 13: 9789004163898

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 2007

Synopsis

For most students in medieval studies, Eastern Europe is marginal and East European topics simply exotica. A peculiar form of Orientalism may thus be responsible for the exclusion of the Avars, Bulgars, Khazars, and Cumans from the medieval history of the European continent. This collection of studies is an attempt to stimulate research in a comparative mode and to open up a broader discussion about such key themes as material culture, ethnicity, historical memory, or conversion in the context of social and political developments in early medieval Europe. Another goal of this volume is to introduce a number of new approaches to the study of what is known as "medieval nomads." Without explicitly rejecting the model of raid vs. trade famously introduced by Anatoly Khazanov, many contributions in this volume shift the emphasis on internal developments that have received until now little or no attention.
Contributors are: Tivadar Vida, Peter Stadler, Péter Somogyi, Uwe Fiedler, Orsolya Heinrich-Tamaska, Bartlomiej Szymon Szmoniewski, Florin Curta, Valeri Iotov, Veselina Vachkova, Tsvetelin Stepanov, Dimitri Korobeinikov, and Victor Spinei.

About this title

About the Author:

Florin Curta, Ph.D (1998) in History, Western Michigan University, is Associate Professor of Medieval History and Archaeology at the University of Florida. He has published extensively on the history and archaeology of Eastern Europe, including Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500-1250 (Cambridge University Press, 2006).

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 9004163891
• ISBN 13: 9789004163898
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 492
• Editor: Curta Florin