1st Edition

Medieval Europe From Another Angle Volume II: Transformations

By Florin Curta Copyright 2025
284 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

284 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The history of East Central, Southeastern and Eastern Europe may be considered as alternating between a Marxist emphasis on rigid differences between Antiquity and the Middle Ages, largely derived from distinctive modes of production, and a preoccupation with borders, ethnicity, and personalities. This volume examines a number of economic problems that highlight the limits of the current... Read more

Introduction

 

Part I: Economy

 

1. Coins, forts and commercial exchanges in the sixth- and early seventh-century Balkans

 

2. Postcards from Maurilia, or the historiography of the Dark-Age cities of Byzantium

 

3. Origins of the European economy. A debate with Michael McCormick. East Central Europe

 

4. A note on trade and trade centers in the eastern and northern Adriatic region between the eighth and the ninth century

 

5. Markets in tenth-century al-Andalus and Volga Bulgharia: contrasting views of trade in Muslim Europe

 

Part 2: Charlemagne and later issues

 

6. Charlemagne in medieval East Central Europe (ca. 800 to ca. 1200)

 

7. Linear frontiers in the 9th century: Bulgaria and Wessex

 

8. Constantinople and the echo chamber. The Vlachs in the French crusade chronicles

 

9. Teutonic hierotopy: St. Christopher at Lochstedt

 

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.”