The making of the Slavs
Subtitle: History and archaeology of the Lower Danube Region, ca. 500-700
By: Florin Curta.
Series: Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 463
ISBN-13: 9780521802024
Subjects: Slavs -- Danube River Region -- History; Slavs -- Balkan Peninsula -- History; Slavs -- Ethnicity; Slavs -- History; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Danube River Region; Danube River Region -- Antiquities, Slavic; Slavs -- Origin
Description: xxv, 463 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 372-450) and index.
Table of contents: title: Contents … vii; title: List of figures … ix; title: List of tables … xiii; title: Acknowledgments … xiv; title: List of abbreviations …xv; title: Introduction … 1; title: ◦; title: 1. SLAVIC ETHNICITY AND THE ETHNIE OF THE SLAVS: CONCEPTS AND APPROACHES … 6; title: ―  The historiography of Slavic ethnicity … 6; title: ―  What is ethnicity? … 14; title: ―  What is ethnie? … 22; title: ―  Ethnicity, material culture and archaeology … 24; title: ―  Ethnicity and style … 31; title: ―  Conclusion … 34; title: ◦; title: 2. SOURCES FOR THE HISTORY OF THE EARLY SLAVS (C. 500—700) … 36; title: ―  Procopius and Jordanes … 36; title: ―  The Slavs, the theory of climates, and Constantinople … 43; title: ―  Slavs or Avars? … 49; title: ―  The saint and the barbarians … 52; title: ―  The siege of Constantinople, the campaign diary, and the Wends … 54; title: ―  The saint and the barbarians again … 61; title: ―  Later sources … 63; title: ―  Conclusion … 71; title: ◦; title: 3. THE SLAVS IN EARLY MEDIEVAL SOURCES (C. 500—700) … 74; title: ―  Slavic raiding during Justinian’s reign … 75; title: ―  The Avars and the Slavs:  raiding activity in the 580s … 90; title: ―  War against the Sclavenes:  Maurice’s campaigns of the 590s … 99; title: ―  The seventh century … 107; title: ―  Conclusion … 113; title: ◦; title: 4. THE BALKANS AND THE DANUBE LIMES DURING THE SIXTH AND SEVENTH CENTURIES … 120; title: ―  Urban change in the Balkans … 121; title: ―  Cities:  the archaeological evidence (Figure 1) … 124; title: ―  Changing cities, rural settlements, and monasteries … 142; title: ―  The limes and the sixth-century Balkans … 150; title: ―  Procopius and the limes … 151; title: ―  The limes and the Balkans:  an archaeological survey (Figure 2) … 155; title: ―  Inflation in the Balkans and the end of the limes:  the evidence of coin hoards … 169; title: ―  Conclusion … 181; title: ◦; title: 5. BARBARIANS ON THE SIXTH-CENTURY DANUBE FRONTIER: AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY … 190; title: ―  The Carpathian Basin … 190; title: ―  The Avars … 204; title: ―  The steppe north of the Black Sea … 208; title: ―  Conclusion … 223; title: ◦; title: 6. ELITES AND GROUP IDENTITY NORTH OF THE DANUBE FRONTIER: THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE … 227; title: ―  Dating the change:  where were the earliest Slavs? … 228; title: ―  “Slavic” bow fibulae in Eastern Europe … 247; title: ―  Grubenhäuser, pots, and clay pans:  material culture in action … 276; title: ―  Conclusion … 307; title: ◦; title: 7. “KINGS” AND “DEMOCRACY”: POWER IN EARLY SLAVIC SOCIETY … 311; title: ―  “Military democracy”:  useful concept or Procrustean bed? … 312; title: ―  Segmentary society:  ideology or actuality? … 319; title: ―  Great-men, big-men, and chiefs … 325; title: ―  Conclusion … 332; title: ◦; title: CONCLUSION:  THE MAKING OF THE SLAVS … 335; title: ―  Migration … 335; title: ―  Ethnicity and ethnie:  the view from the inside … 338; title: ―  The Slavic ethnie:  the view from the outside … 346; title: ◦; title: Appendix A:  List of settlement features used in the seriation by correspondence analysis … 351; title: Appendix B:  Handmade and wheelmade pots used for shape analysis … 366; title: References … 372; title: Index … 451