Slavs in the Middle Ages Between Idea and Reality

Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Maps
1
Prologue: The Making of Slavs in Modern Times
	1	The Western Discovery of the Slavs between Baroque and Romanticism
	2	Ideas of Slavic Community and Modern “Nation-Building”
	3	Slavic Unity and German Anti-slavism
	4	The Slavic Idea in Eastern Europe between Stalinism and the European Union
2
Questions and Methodology
3
The Discovery of the Slavs in the Early Middle Ages
	1	Slavic Warriors and Settlers in Byzantium
	2	Slavic gentes in the Eyes of Latin Europe
	3	Slavs in the Distant Oriental View
4
Early Slavic Realities
	1	Archaeology and Early Slavic Culture
	2	Open Settlements
		2.1	Dessau-Mosigkau
		2.2	Březno
		2.3	Rashkiv
	3	Living Houses
	4	Subsistence Economy
	5	Practices of Cult and Religion
	6	Local Communities
	7	Leaders and War-Bands
	8	Strongholds and Trading Places
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Early Slavic Power Structures (regna)
	1	The Khanate of the Proto-Bulgars
	2	Small Principalities in the Western Balkans
	3	Carinthia
	4	Old Moravia
		4.1	The Origins of the Slavic Literary Language
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The Slavs in the Process of Medieval “State-Formation” and “Nation-Building”
	1	Bulgaria
		1.1	The Development of Bulgarian Slavic Literacy
		1.2	Decline and Fall of the First Bulgarian Empire
		1.3	Byzantine Rule and Bulgarian Identity
	2	Bohemia
		2.1	Beginnings and Formation of the Bohemian Principality
		2.2	Crisis and Consolidation
		2.3	Bohemian Self-Awareness
		2.4	The Medieval Bohemian “Nation” and Slavicity
	3	Croatia
		3.1	A Precarious Rule between Foreign Powers
		3.2	Croatian Self-Awareness and Slavicity
	4	Kievan Rus’
		4.1	Beginnings and Formation of a Scandinavian-East Slavic Rus’
		4.2	Church, Dynasty, and the Emergence of a Rus’ian Identity
		4.3	The Rus’ian Making of a Slavic Community
		4.4	Provincial Principalities and Regional Identities
	5	Poland
		5.1	Beginnings and Formation of Piast Rule
		5.2	Consolidation, Crisis, and Regional Diversification
		5.3	Forming a Sense of Community
	6	Serbia
		6.1	A Hindered Formation of Rule between East and West
		6.2	Holy Dynasty and Religious Community
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Incomplete Processes of “State-Formation” and “Nation-Building”
	1	Polabian Slavs
		1.1	The Lutician Federation and Pagan Resistance
		1.2	The Abodrites: Between Christian regnum and Pagan Reaction
		1.3	The Hevellians
		1.4	The Polabian Slavs and Their Subjugation
		1.5	Melioratio terrae and the Emergence of Germania Slavica
		1.6	Slavs as a Marginal Group in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation
	2	Pomerania
	3	Slavs in the Balkans
		3.1	The Principality of Duklja
		3.2	A Second High Medieval Variant of the Slavic Idea
		3.3	Bosnia
8 Slavs Perceived by Non-Slavs through the
Middle Ages
	1	The Byzantine Perception
	2	The Oriental Perception
	3	The Latin-European Perception
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Ideas of Slavic Unity in the Late Middle Ages
	1	Bohemia
	2	Poland
	3	Pomerania and Mecklenburg
	4	South-Eastern Europe
		4.1	Bulgaria
		4.2	Serbia
		4.3	Bosnia
		4.4	Croatia
	5	Kievan Rus’ and Muscovy
10 Epilogue: The Making of the Slavs in the
Middle Ages
Bibliography
Index of Personal Names
Index of Geographic Names
Index of Ethnic and Social Groups