The Goths in the Crimea
By: [by] Alexander Alexandrovich Vasiliev.
Series: Monographs of the Mediaeval academy of America,; no. 11
Publisher: The Mediaeval academy of America
Published: 1936
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 292
Subjects: Goths -- Ukraine -- Crimea.; Crimea (Ukraine) -- History.
Description: x, 292 p. : geneal table, map ; 26 cm.
Notes: Bibliographical footnotes.
"The publication of this book was made possible by grants of funds to the academy from the Carnegie corporation of New York and the American council of learned societies."
Table of contents: title: Preface … v; title: Contents … ix; title: ◦; title: I. THE EARLY PERIOD OF CHRISTIANITY AND THE EPOCH OF THE MIGRATIONS … 3; title: 1. The Appearance of the Goths in the Crimea … 3; title: 2. The Introduction of Christianity among the Goths … 4; title: 3. The Fall of the Bosporan Kingdom in the Fourth Century A.D. … 21; title: 4. The Invasion of the Huns in the Crimea in the Fourth Century, and the Legend of the Doe and the Cow … 23; title: 5. The Origin of the Gothic Eparchy in the Crimea … 32; title: 6. The Hunnic Predominance in the Fifth Century … 38; title: 7. Zeno’s Inscription (A.D. 488) … 43; title: 8. The Site of Dory and Theodoro-Mankup … 47; title: 9. The Etymology of the Name ‘Dory-Doros-Doras-Daras’ … 52; title: 10. The Tetraxite Goths … 57; title: ◦; title: II. THE PERIOD OF BYZANTINE, KHAZAR AND RUSSIAN INFLUENCE (FROM THE SIXTH CENTURY TO THE BEGINNING OF THE ELEVENTH) … 70; title: ◦; title: 1. The Hunnic Danger in the Sixth Century … 70; title: 2. The Khazar Predominance from the Close of the Sixth Century to the Beginning of the Eighth … 76; title: 3. The Iconoclastic Epoch and the Khazar Predominance in the Eighth and Ninth Centuries … 87; title: 4. The Period of the Russian Protectorate over Gothia in the Tenth Century and the Restoration of Byzantine Power in the Crimea … 117; title: ◦; title: III. THE PERIOD OF POLOVTZIAN (CUMAN) DEPENDENCE AND SECESSION FROM BYZANTIUM (FROM THE MIDDLE OF THE ELEVENTH CENTURY TO THE YEAR 1204) … 136; title: 1. The Polovtzian Predominance … 136; title: 2. The Title ‘Gothicus’ used by the Byzantine Emperors of the Twelfth Century … 140; title: 3. Church Life in Gothia in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries … 145; title: 4. The Rupture between Gothia and Byzantium … 150; title: ◦; title: IV. THE EPOCH OP THE LATIN EMPIRE (1204-1261) AND THE DEPENDENCE OF GOTHIA UPON THE EMPIRE OP TREBIZOND … 160; title: ◦; title: V. THE PRINCIPALITY OF GOTHIA IN THE FOURTEENTH AND FIFTEENTH CENTURIES AND ITS FALL IN 1475 … 171; title: 1. The Founding of Caffa. Papal Missions. The Plague of 1346 … 171; title: 2. The Treaties between Genoa and the Tartars in 1380,1381, and 1387 … 177; title: 3. The Principality of Theodore in the Fourteenth Century … 182; title: 4. Tamerlane and Gothia … 188; title: 5. Gothia in the Fifteenth Century. Alexis, Prince of Gothia … 192; title: 6. Olobei, Prince of Gothia. The Statute of Caffa (1449). The Fall of Constantinople … 221; title: 7. The Fall of Caffa (June 1475) and of Maritime Gothia … 235; title: 8. The Fall of Theodoro (December 1475) … 249; title: ◦; title: VI. GOTHIA UNDER THE TURKISH SWAY (FROM 1475 TO THE END OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY) … 267; title: 1. Gothia under Turkey … 267; title: 2. Church Life in Gothia from the Thirteenth to the End of the Eighteenth Century … 276; title: ◦; title: EXCURSUS: The ‘Goths’ in the Letter of David of Trebizond … 281; title: Genealogical Table of the Princes of Gothia … 282; title: Index … 283