The making of the slavs : history and archaeology of the Lower Danube region, ca. 500-700 / Florin Curta.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Curta, Florin, author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought ; 4th ser., 52.

Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought ; 4th ser., 52

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavs--Lower Danube River Region--History.

Slavs.

Slavs--Balkan Peninsula--History.

Slavs--Ethnic identity.

Slavs--History.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Lower Danube River Region.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Lower Danube River Region--Antiquities, Slavic.

Lower Danube River Region.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxv, 463 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book offers an alternative approach to the problem of Slavic ethnicity in south-eastern Europe between c. 500 and c. 700, from the perspective of current anthropological theories. The conceptual emphasis here is on the relation between material culture and ethnicity. The author demonstrates that the history of the Sclavenes and the Antes begins only at around 500 AD. He also points to the significance of the archaeological evidence, which suggests that specific artefacts may have been used as identity markers. This evidence also indicates the role of local leaders in building group boundaries and in leading successful raids across the Danube. Because of these military and political developments, Byzantine authors began employing names such as Sclavines and Antes in order to make sense of the process of group identification that was taking place north of the Danube frontier. Slavic ethnicity is therefore shown to be a Byzantine invention.

Contents:

1. Slavic ethnicity and the ethnie of the Slavs: concepts and approaches

2. Sources for the history of the early Slavs (c. 500-700)

3. The Slavs in early medieval sources (c. 500-700)

4. The Balkans and the Danube limes during the sixth and seventh centuries

5. Barbarians on the sixty-century Danube frontier: an archaeological survey

6. Elites and group identity north of the Danube frontier: the archaeological evidence

7. "Kings" and "democracy": power in early Slavic society

Conclusion: the making of the Slavs.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 372-450) and index.

ISBN:

9780511101434

0511101430

9781107122925

1107122929

9780511153358

051115335X

9781280159374

1280159375

9780511496295

051149629X

9780511325144

0511325142

9780511119408

0511119402

9780521036153

0521036151

9780511047756

0511047754

OCLC:

814262365

Publisher Number:

2027/heb06209 hdl