1st Edition

The Early Slavs The First Centuries of Eastern Europe

By Susana Torres Prieto Copyright 2025
220 Pages
by Routledge

220 Pages
by Routledge

220 Pages
by Routledge

This book presents an introductory and comprehensive history of the Slavic-speaking peoples who inhabited Eastern and Southern Europe during the 700-year period stretching from the first archaeological and historical records to the establishment of their first organised polities. The book is organised thematically (social organisation, politics and government, economy, religion, culture) in... Read more

Introduction

Chapter 1: Historiographic sources and archaeological evidence

Chapter 2: The earliest Slavs

Chapter 3: Trade and slavery

Chapter 4: The earliest polities

Chapter 5: Christianisation

Chapter 6: Written culture

Epilogue: Identities

APPENDIX: Comparative chronology (5301230)

Biography

Susana Torres Prieto is Associate Professor in the Humanities at IE University (Madrid), Spain. Her research focuses on Medieval Slavic literature and culture. In her publications, she analyses textual transmission in Slavic medieval literatures from a comprehensive perspective, encompassing literary, translation and manuscript studies, and incorporating the latest developments in digital humanities. She co-edited the volume Medieval Rus’ and Early Modern Russia: Texts and Contexts (Routledge 2023, with Andrei Franklin).