Author: Stephen Neil ScottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
The Collapse of the Moravian Mission of Saints Cyril and Methodius, the Fate of the Disciples, and the Christianization of the Southern Slavs
Author: Stephen Neil ScottMobility and Migration in Byzantium: A Sourcebook
Author: Claudia RappPublisher: V&R unipress
ISBN: 3737013411
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 501
Book Description
Mobility and migration were not uncommon in Byzantium, as is true for all societies. Yet, scholarship is only beginning to pay attention to these phenomena. This book presents in English translation a wide array of relevant source texts from ca. 650 to ca. 1450 originally written in medieval Greek: from administrative records, saints’ lives and letters by churchmen to ego-documents by ambassadors and historical narratives by court historians. Each source text is accompanied by a detailed introduction, commentary and further bibliography, thus making the book accessible to both scholars and students and laying the groundwork for future research on the internal dynamics of Byzantine society.
Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500-1250
Author: Florin CurtaPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521815398
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
This book is an authoritative survey of the history of southeastern Europe from 500 to 1250.
Medieval Eastern Europe, 500–1300
Author: Florin CurtaPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 148754491X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Filling a major gap in medieval studies, Medieval Eastern Europe is the first collection of primary sources in English translation covering the history of the whole eastern region of the European continent between 500 and 1300. Florin Curta, a leading scholar of medieval eastern Europe, gathers sources from a geographic area ranging from the Czech lands in the west to the Ural Mountains in the east, and from northern Russia to Greece. Curta begins with a discussion of why this region has been relatively ignored. His collection includes traditional narrative sources, such as chronicles and annals, as well as treaties, charters, letters, and legal texts. Each primary source is preceded by a brief introduction and followed by guiding questions. Organized chronologically into thematic chapters, the selections touch upon a wide variety of topics, including political developments; conversion to Christianity, Islam, and Judaism; economic and social issues; literature; laws; religious beliefs and practices; and much more.
Ph. D. Dissertations in Slovakiana in the Western World
Author: Martha Mistina KonaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Ethnography After Antiquity
Author: Anthony KaldellisPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812208404
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Although Greek and Roman authors wrote ethnographic texts describing foreign cultures, ethnography seems to disappear from Byzantine literature after the seventh century C.E.—a perplexing exception for a culture so strongly self-identified with the Roman empire. Yet the Byzantines, geographically located at the heart of the upheavals that led from the ancient to the modern world, had abundant and sophisticated knowledge of the cultures with which they struggled and bargained. Ethnography After Antiquity examines both the instances and omissions of Byzantine ethnography, exploring the political and religious motivations for writing (or not writing) about other peoples. Through the ethnographies embedded in classical histories, military manuals, Constantine VII's De administrando imperio, and religious literature, Anthony Kaldellis shows Byzantine authors using accounts of foreign cultures as vehicles to critique their own state or to demonstrate Romano-Christian superiority over Islam. He comes to the startling conclusion that the Byzantines did not view cultural differences through a purely theological prism: their Roman identity, rather than their orthodoxy, was the vital distinction from cultures they considered heretic and barbarian. Filling in the previously unexplained gap between antiquity and the resurgence of ethnography in the late Byzantine period, Ethnography After Antiquity offers new perspective on how Byzantium positioned itself with and against the dramatically shifting world.
The Middle East, Abstracts and Index
Author: The American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies
Author: Dissertation Abstracts International
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
East Central & Eastern Europe in the Early Middle Ages
Author: Florin CurtaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Studies on the history and archaeology of Eastern Europe during the early Middle Ages