The world of the ancient Slavs
By: Zdeněk Váňa ; photographs by Pavel Vácha ; illustrations by Pavel Major ; [translated by Till Gottheiner].
Contributors: Vácha, Pavel.; Major, Pavel.
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780814317488
Subjects: Slavs -- History.; Civilization, Slavic.
Description: 240 p. : ill., maps (some col.) ; 32 cm.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 235.
Translation of: Svět dávných Slovanů (Artia, Praha, 1983).
Includes index.
Table of contents: value: Foreword … 7; value: ◦; value: SEARCHING FOR THE ORIGIN OF THE SLAVS; value: The Oldest Written Records … 9; value: What Philology Can Prove … 15; value: What Archeology Has Revealed … 18; value: When Did the Emergence of the Slavs Take Place? … 24; value: ◦; value: THE GREAT EXPANSION BEGINS; value: The Settlement of Central Europe … 29; value: The Advance into the Balkans … 38; value: Slav Colonization of Eastern Europe … 45; value: ◦; value: BETWEEN THE FRANKISH AND BYZANTINE EMPIRES AND THE NOMADS; value: The Slavs and the Nomad Tribes … 53; value: The Pressure of the Great Powers and the First Organized States … 66; value: ◦; value: GODS, DEMONS AND SHRINES; value: The Religious Ideas of the Slavs … 83; value: Temples, Idols and Cults … 91; value: ◦; value: A MAJOR MILESTONE IN DEVELOPMENT; value: The Great Moravian Empire and its Centres … 105; value: Pribina's Principality at Nitra and Mosapurc … 119; value: The Croats and Serbs, their Political and Cultural Emergence … 125; value: The First Bulgarian Empire … 131; value: The Early History of Kievan Russia … 139; value: ◦; value: PEASANTS, CRAFTSMEN, MERCHANTS AND WARRIORS; value: Peasants … 151; value: Crafts and Trade … 155; value: Warriors ... 166; value: ◦; value: THE CZECHS AND THE POLES — ORIENTATION TOWARDS THE WEST; value: The Bohemian State of the Přemyslids — the Heir to the Great Moravian Empire … 174; value: The Piast State in Poland … 193; value: ◦; value: THE TRAGEDY OF THE NORTH-WESTERN SLAVS; value: The Lusatian Centre at Tornow … 213; value: Timber Fortresses in Mecklenburg … 220; value: Seafarers and Pirates in the Baltic Sea … 228; value: ◦; value: Conclusion … 234; value: Bibliography … 235; value: Index … 236