The Gypsies

The Gypsies
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Origins
	The linguistic evidence
	Physical anthropology
	Ethnic parallels
	Lexicostatistics
2 Early Migrations
	Persia
	Armenia
	Social cohesion
3 Into the Byzantine Empire and the Balkans
	Byzantium and Greece
	Serbia, Bulgaria, Wallachia, Moldavia
4 The Great Trick
	Imperial safe-conducts
	New letters of protection
	Taking stock
5 The Turn of the Tide
	Germany, Austria, Switzerland
	France
	Spain and Portugal
	The Low Countries
	Italy
	Hungary and Transylvania
	Bohemia, Poland-Lithuania and the Ukraine
	Scotland and England
	Scandinavia
	Images and stereotypes
	European patterns
6 Pressure of the Gyves
	Expulsion, assimilation, extirpation
	Transportation
	Within the Ottoman Empire
	Survival of the species
	Scant glimmerings of light
7 Forces for Change
	New perceptions
	Musical ascendancies
	Landscapes and townscapes
	Out of bondage
	Renewed migrations
	Conservation and mutation
8 The Approach to Avernus
	‘Combating the Gypsy nuisance’
	The forgotten holocaust
9 Modern Times
	Frontier crossings
	Questions of policy
	Populations and groupings
	Turns of speech
	Tradition of change
	Pilgrims and Pentecostals
	Opré Roma!
Bibliography
Index