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Medieval Europe From Another Angle: Volume I: The People book cover

1st Edition

Medieval Europe From Another Angle Volume I: The People

By Florin Curta Copyright 2025
300 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

300 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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While the Middle Ages represent a topic of perennial interest, most studies have addressed the western parts of the European continent, often from the angle of the written sources. This volume examines an area less known in the literary and archaeological evidence. The studies included therein provide significant insights into the history and archaeology of East Central and Eastern Europe during... Read more

Introduction

 

Part I: East Central and Eastern Europe

 

1. East Central Europe: the gate to Byzantium

 

2. The archaeology of service settlements in Eastern Europe

 

 

Part II: Ethnicity in medieval archaeology

 

3. Medieval archaeology and ethnicity: where are we?

 

4. The elephant in the room. A reply to Sebastian Brather

 

 

Part III: Slavs and Avars

 

5. Slavs in Fredegar and Paul the Deacon: medieval gens of “scourge of God”?

 

6. Four questions for those who still believe in prehistoric Slavs and other fairy tales

 

7. Were there Slavs in seventh-century Macedonia?

 

8. The earliest Slavs in east central Europe? Remarks on the early medieval settlement in Nova Tabla (Slovenia)

 

9. An ironic smile: the Carpathian Mountains and the migration of the Slavs

 

10. The earliest Avar-age stirrups, or the “stirrup controversy” revisited

 

11. Avar Blitzkrieg, Slavic and Bulgar raiders, and Roman special ops: mobile warriors in the 6th-century Balkans

 

Bibliography

Biography

Florin Curta is Professor of Medieval History and Archaeology at the University of Florida. His books include Slavs in the Making (Routledge, 2021) and The Long Sixth Century in Eastern Europe (2021). He is also the editor of The Other Europe in the Middle Ages: Avars, Bulgars, Khazars, and Cumans (2008) and Neglected Barbarians (2011). Curta is the editor of the online Bibliography of the History and Archaeology of Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, and co-editor of the series “East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450–1450.”

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