1st Edition

The Balkans in the Late Middle Ages, 1300-1500

Edited By Panos Sophoulis, Florin Curta Copyright 2027
330 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The Balkans in the Late Middle Ages, 1300-1500 , is the first publication of its kind to provide a point of reference for the history of Southeastern Europe during the late medieval period. Scholars have long recognized the 14th and 15th centuries as an extremely important period in the history of the medieval Balkans. This was an era of intense political and military tumult, financial crisis... Read more

Chapter 1:  The Late Medieval Balkans: An Introduction

Florin Curta and Panos Sophoulis

 

Chapter 2:  Written And Archaeological Sources

Kiril Petkov and Rosina Kostova

 

Chapter 3: The Last Two Centuries Of Byzantine Power

Christos Malatras

 

Chapter 4: Nemanjid Serbia

Vlada Stanković

 

Chapter 5: Late Medieval Bulgaria

Francesco Dall’Aglio

 

Chapter 6: Bosnia

Neven Isailović

 

Chapter 7: Croatia and Dalmatia

Judit Gál

 

Chapter 8: Wallachia and Moldavia

Ovidiu Cristea

 

Chapter 9: Latin Greece

Simon Hasdenteufel

 

Chapter 10: The Albanian lands

Brendan Osswald

 

Chapter 11: The Advent of the Ottomans

Boris Stojkovski

 

Chapter 12:The anti-Ottoman Crusades

Adinel-Ciprian Dincă

 

Biography

Florin Curta is Professor of Medieval History and Archaeology at the University of Florida, USA. His books include Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages (2006) and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500-1300 (2019). He is also the editor of The Routledge Handbook of East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500-1300 (2022), Bibliography of the History and Archaeology of Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages and the co-editor of the East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450 series.

Panos Sophoulis is Associate Professor of History at the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, specializing in Southeastern Europe and particularly the Balkans during the Middle Ages. He is the author of Byzantium and Bulgaria, 775-831 (2012) and Banditry in the Medieval Balkans, 800-1500 (2020). He is also the co-editor of The Balkans in the Seventh Century: Ethnic and Cultural Transformations (2025).