Nomads, Northmen and Slavs.
Subtitle: Eastern Europe in the ninth century.
Series: Slavo-Orientalia; Monographienreihe über die Wechselbeziehungen zwischen der slavischen und orientalischen Welt,; Bd. 2
Publisher: Mouton; Harrassowitz
Published: 1968
Place of publication: The Hague; Wiesbaden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 138
Subjects: Europe, Eastern -- History.
Description: 138 p. 24 cm.
Notes: Bibliographical footnotes.
Originally the author's thesis, University of Washington.
Table of contents: title: Editor’s Preface … 5; title: Acknowledgements … 7; title: Table of Contents … 9; title: Introduction … 11; title: ◦; title: I. THE ROLE OF THE DNIEPER RIVER IN THE EARLY HISTORY OF EASTERN EUROPE … 18; title: A. “Put’ iz Variag v Greki” … 19; title: B. Theories based on the Annales Bertiniani … 19; title: C. The testimony of Muslim sources … 27; title: D. Byzantine sources and the Russian Primary Chronicle … 31; title: E. The role of the Nomads … 35; title: ◦; title: II. PAX CHAZARICA … 39; title: A. Nomadic state formations in Europe (sixth to ninth century) … 40; title: B. The Avars and the Slavs … 43; title: C. Origins of Kiev … 47; title: ◦; title: III. THE KHAZARS AND THE EASTERN SLAVS … 56; title: A. The chronology of the tributary affiliation of the Slavs … 56; title: B. The testimony of Muslim sources … 59; title: C. The forms and extent of the affiliation … 63; title: ◦; title: IV. END OF THE PAX CHAZARICA … 69; title: A. The fortress of Sarkel on the Don … 70; title: B. The Proto-Hungarians in the Pontic steppes … 74; title: ◦; title: V. THE ONOGURS IN THE NINTH CENTURY … 77; title: A. The evidence of Byzantine and western sources … 78; title: B. The evidence of Muslim sources … 81; title: ◦; title: VI. THE MAJGHARI IN EASTERN EUROPE … 87; title: A. Theories of the origin of the Magyars (i.e., Hungarians) … 87; title: B. A new approach to the controversy; a theory of a Meshcher – Majghari continuity … 92; title: C. Meschchers and the Rus center of ‘Artha’ … 98; title: ◦; title: VII. THE INVITATION OF THE RUSES … 102; title: A. The terms ‘Varangian’ and ‘Rus’ … 102; title: B. The historicity of the ‘Invitation’ … 108; title: C. The chronology of the ‘Invitation’ … 109; title: ◦; title: VIII. EASTERN EUROPE AFTER 850 … 113; title: A. The geopolitical situation … 113; title: B. Askold and Dir in Kiev … 118; title: C. The Ruses:  Varangians and Authochthons … 122; title: D. The Ruses of Oleg and the Slavs … 125; title: ◦; title: IX. NOMADS, NORTHMEN AND THE SLAVS … 130; title: ◦; title: Index of Geographic, Ethnic and Personal names; Sources and Authorities … 133