From Goths to Varangians : communication and cultural exchange between the Baltic and the Black Sea / edited by Line Bjerg, John H. Lind & Soren M. Sindbæk.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Højberg Bjerg, Line Maj-Britt, editor.

Lind, John, 1945- editor.

Sindbæk, Søren M., editor.

Series:

Black Sea studies ; 15.

Black Sea Studies ; 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Varangians.

Goths.

Europe, Eastern--Relations--Byzantine Empire.

Europe, Eastern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (420 pages).

Place of Publication:

Aarhus : Aarhus University Press, [2013]

Summary:

In late Antiquity, archaeology demonstrates lively and far-flung exchange along the river Dniester, through current Poland to the Baltic. By the 11th century the former Barbaricum had been transformed into a string of Christian kingdoms and principalities, whose parallel histories are as conspicuous as their differences. From the legendary migrations of the Goths in Antiquity to the Varangian guard at the imperial court of Byzantium in the late Viking Age, trans-cultural interaction complemented important historical development. This book is about aspects of the changing interactions from late Antiquity to the High Middle Ages, from Goths to Varangians, and from the Baltic to the Black Sea. The history and archaeology of these connections have been poorly exposed and investigated in modern times. The papers presented in this volume are a selection of those presented during a series of four meetings organised 2007-2009 by the 'Varangian Network'

Contents:

Introduction / Line Bjerg, John H. Lind & Soren M. Sindbaek

The Russian controversy over the Varangians / Leo S. Klejn

At the watershed between the Baltic and Pontic before Gnezdovo / Johan Callmer

Networking north-eastern Barbaricum: a study of gold imitations of Roman coins / Helle Winge Horsnaes

The Herulians are coming! / Line Bjerg

Byzantium and the Scandinavian world in the 9th-10th century: material evidence of contacts / Fedir Androshchuk

Chasing gold threads: auratae vestes from Hellenistic ruler to Varangian guards / Margarita Gleba

Finds of Byzantine origin from the early urban centre Gnezdovo in the light of the contacts between Rus' and Constantinople (10

early 11th centuries AD) / Natalie Eniosova & Tamara Puškina

Scandinavians in the east of Europe: in search of glory or a new motherland? / Volodymyr Kovalenko

Viking warriors and the Byzantine Empire: was there a transfer of nautical technology? / Ole Crumlin-Pedersen

Mental maps of the Old Russian chronicle-writer of the early twelfth century / Elena Melnikova

Darkness in the East? Scandinavian scholars on the question of Easter influence in Scandinavia during the Viking Age and early Middle Ages / John H. Lind

The journey of St Clement's cult from the Black Sean to the Baltic Region / Ildar H. Garipzanov

Royal family connections and the Byzantine impact on Danish Romanesque church frescos. Queen Margareth Fredkulla and her nieces / Ulla Haastrup & John H. Lind.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9788771244250

8771244255

OCLC:

1287023520