The early Slavs
Subtitle: culture and society in early medieval Eastern Europe
By: P.M. Barford.
Publisher: British Museum Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780714128047
Subjects: Slavs -- History.; Europe, Eastern -- Civilization.
Description: xvi, 416 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 320-323) and index.
Table of contents: title: List of Maps I-XII … vi; title: Preface	 … vii; title: Chronological Summary … xvi; title: ◦; title: Introduction … 1; title: — The sources … 3; title: — The geographical background … 20; title: ◦; title: 1. The Formation of a Slav Identity … 27; title: — Who were the Early Slavs … 27; title: — The crystallization of a Slav identity … 35; title: ◦; title: 2. Expansion and Assimilation: the Sixth Century … 45; title: — Phase I:  c. 500-550 … 47; title: — Phase II:  c. 550-600 … 55; title: ◦; title: 3. Consolidation and Social Change: the Seventh Century … 67; title: — The reflux … 80; title: — An end to austerity … 82; title: ◦; title: 4. Decisive Decades: the Eighth and Ninth centuries … 89; title: — The South Slavs and Byzantium … 91; title: — The East Slavs … 96; title: — The West Slavs … 104; title: ◦; title: 5. Daily Life … 113; title: — The people … 113; title: — Dress and hygiene … 115; title: — The family home … 119; title: ◦; title: 6. The Order of Things: Social Structure … 124; title: — Big men and chiefs … 125; title: — Settlement patterns and social organization … 129; title: — The role of the strongholds … 131; title: — States and nations … 133; title: ◦; title: 7. Warfare … 139; title: — Inter-group skirmishes … 140; title: — Organized force … 142; title: — Military role of strongholds … 144; title: — Imposition of will … 147; title: — Prisoners of war … 148; title: ◦; title: 8. Production, Consumption and Exchange … 150; title: — Agricultural production … 153; title: — Craft products … 159; title: — The slave trade … 166; title: — Trading places and production centres … 167; title: — Trade routes … 171; title: — The merchants … 172; title: — Media of exchange … 174; title: — The origin of towns … 183; title: ◦; title: 9. Pagan Ideologies … 188; title: — Demons and the spirit world … 189; title: — The gods … 193; title: — Burial rites … 199; title: — Concepts of time … 208; title: ◦; title: 10. Towards a Christian Europe … 210; title: — Missionaries and bishops … 213; title: — From pagan leaders to Christian princes … 218; title: — Christianity and the people … 223; title: ◦; title: 11. State-formation: the South and East Slavs … 227; title: — The Bulgar khanate and its neighbours … 227; title: — The Kievan state and its neighbours … 232; title: ◦; title: 12. State-formation: the West Slavs … 250; title: — The Bohemian (Czech) state … 251; title: — Polabia and Pomerania … 257; title: — Poland … 261; title: ◦; title: 13. The Early Slavs and the Modern World … 268; title: ◦; title: Notes … 286; title: Select Bibliography … 320; title: Figures and Maps … 325; title: Index … 406