Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500–1250

Front Cover......Page 1
TITLE PAGE......Page 5
DEDICATION......Page 7
CONTENTS......Page 8
MAPS......Page 9
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 10
NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION, NAMES, DATES, AND WORDS......Page 11
CHRONOLOGY......Page 13
ABBREVIATIONS......Page 28
INTRODUCTION......Page 30
WHAT IS SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE?......Page 31
SOURCES FOR THE MEDIEVAL HISTORY OF SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE......Page 34
MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY IN SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE......Page 50
APPROACHES AND INTERPRETATIVE FRAMEWORKS......Page 57
1: THE END OF LATE ANTIQUITY OR THE BEGINNING OF THE MIDDLE AGES (c.500-c.600)?......Page 68
CITIES, FORTS, AND ECONOMIC LIFE......Page 69
SOCIETY AND CHRISTIANITY......Page 77
BARBARIANS AND BARBARIAN RAIDS. \"HUNS,\" LOMBARDS, GEPIDS, AND SLAVS......Page 82
\"THE FILTHY RACE OF LONG-HAIRED BARBARIANS\": THE AVARS......Page 90
2: SOUTHEAST EUROPEAN \"DARK AGES\" (c.600-c.800)......Page 99
THE AVARS AND THE AVAR QAGANATE......Page 104
BULGARIA DURING THE EIGHTH CENTURY......Page 110
THE AVARS BETWEEN 630 AND 800. CARANTANIA......Page 119
BYZANTIUM ON THE DARK AGE BALKANS......Page 125
3: THE RISE OF NEW POWERS (800-900)......Page 140
CROATS AND CROATIA......Page 163
BULGARIA IN THE NINTH CENTURY
......Page 176
BORIS-MICHAEL AND THE CONVERSION OF BULGARIA......Page 195
4: IRON CENTURY OR GOLDEN AGE (900- 1000)?......Page 209
CROATIA AND CROATIAN KINGS......Page 220
BYZANTINE PROVINCES AND BYZANTINE CLIENTS......Page 230
THE GOLDEN AGE OF BULGARIA......Page 242
THE FALL OF BULGARIA......Page 266
5: THE FIRST BYZANTINE CENTURY (1000-1100)......Page 277
BYZANTIUM AND ITS CLIENTS......Page 296
PECHENEGS AND CUMANS......Page 331
6: THE SECOND BYZANTINE CENTURY (1100-1200)......Page 340
TWELFTH-CENTURY BYZANTIUM IN THE BALKANS......Page 348
THE BYZANTINE-HUNGARIAN WARS AND THE RISE OF SERBIA......Page 357
DALMATIA AND THE NORTHWESTERN REGION......Page 367
TRANSYLVANIA, THE OTHER BORDERLAND......Page 379
THE VLACH REVOLT......Page 386
7: BETWEEN THE CRUSADE AND THE MONGOL INVASION (1200-1250)......Page 395
THE SECOND BULGARIAN EMPIRE......Page 408
SERBIA AND DALMATIA......Page 418
TRANSYLVANIA AND THE CUMANS......Page 429
THE MONGOL INVASION......Page 437
8: CONCLUSIONS AND LINGERING QUESTIONS......Page 444
ECONOMY......Page 445
SOCIETY......Page 453
RELIGION......Page 460
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 467
INDEX......Page 516
Back Cover......Page 528