The Early Slavs: The First Centuries of Eastern Europe

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 order to present some of the most recent scholarly پیشرفت در زمینه های مختلف ، نور جدیدی را در برخی از جدال های علمی تاریخی نشان می دهد. این یک تاریخ سیاسی و فرهنگی است که یافته های اخیر را در مناطقی که قبلاً در ادبیات علمی نادیده گرفته شده بودند ، از جمله برده داری ، نقش زنان ، اهمیت جوامع یهودی و روابط مشکل ساز همه این سیاست های نوظهور با امپراتوری های همسایه را در بر می گیرد. این کتاب به جای تمرکز منحصراً روی هر منطقه جغرافیایی خاص ، یا اینکه عمدتاً با جنبه های زبانی و فرهنگی برخورد می کند ، یک مرور کلی از منشأ بسیاری از ملل مدرن در اروپای شرقی و جنوبی ارائه می دهد. مطالعات.

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 order to present some of the most recent scholarly advances in a range of fields, showing new light in some historical scholarly polemics. It is a political and cultural history that incorporates recent findings in areas previously overlooked in scholarly literature, such as slavery, the role of women, the importance of Jewish communities, and the problematic relations of all these emerging polities with neighbouring empires. Instead of focusing exclusively on any specific geographic area, or dealing mainly with linguistic and cultural aspects, the book provides a much-needed overview of the origins of many modern nations in Eastern and Southern Europe.

Written in an accessible style and complete with a comparative chronology, this is a comprehensive introduction to students and researchers in the fields of history, philology, and Slavic and East European Studies.