The Other Europe in the Middle Ages: Avars, Bulgars, Khazars and Cumans

Contents
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Preface......Page 10
Introduction (Florin Curta)......Page 12
Conflict and coexistence: the local population of the Carpathian Basin under Avar rule (sixth to seventh century) (Tivadar Vida)......Page 24
Avar chronology revisited, and the question of ethnicity in the Avar qaganate (Peter Stadler)......Page 58
New remarks on the flow of Byzantine coins in Avaria and Walachia during the second half of the seventh century (Péter Somogyi)......Page 94
Bulgars in the Lower Danube region. A survey of the archaeological evidence and of the state of current research (Uwe Fiedler)......Page 162
Avar-age metalworking technologies in the Carpathian Basin (sixth to eighth century) (Orsolya Heinrich-Tamaska)......Page 248
Two worlds, one hoard: what do metal finds from the foreststeppe belt speak about? (Bartłomiej Szymon Szmoniewski)......Page 274
Th e earliest Avar-age stirrups, or the \"stirrup controversy\" revisited (Florin Curta)......Page 308
A note on the \"Hungarian sabers\" of medieval Bulgaria (Valeri Iotov)......Page 338
Danube Bulgaria and Khazaria as part of the Byzantine oikoumene (Veselina Vachkova)......Page 350
From \'steppe\' to Christian empire and back: Bulgaria between 800 and 1100 (Tsvetelin Stepanov)......Page 374
A broken mirror: the Kıpçak world in the thirteenth century (Dimitri Korobeinikov)......Page 390
The Cuman bishopric—genesis and evolution (Victor Spinei)......Page 424
References......Page 468
List of contributors......Page 494
Index......Page 496