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While the Middle Ages represent a topic of perennial interest, most studies have addressed the western parts of the European continent, often from the angle of the written sources. This volume examines an area less known in the literary and archaeological evidence. The studies included therein provide significant insights into the history and archaeology of East Central and Eastern Europe during Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages.
This is the first volume of essays explicitly to reassess the significance of the region, as well as the role of the archaeological evidence in studying ethnicity in the Middle Ages, particularly in the case of the Slavs and the Avars. Because of its geographic, chronological, thematic, and methodological scope, this book offers a new perspective from a different angle on the analysis of the archaeological and written sources. Some chapters focus on settlement sites; others discuss artifacts from burial assemblages.
As well as advancing new models for the analysis of the written sources in relation to ethnicity, Medieval Europe from Another Angle offers new approaches to the understanding of how ethnicity may have been constructed in the Middle Ages in material culture terms. It will appeal to scholars and students alike studying Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages with an interest in material culture and its use in building ethnic boundaries.
Contents
Introduction
Part I: East Central and Eastern Europe
1. East Central Europe: the gate to Byzantium
2. The archaeology of service settlements in Eastern Europe
Part II: Ethnicity in medieval archaeology
3. Medieval archaeology and ethnicity: where are we?
4. The elephant in the room. A reply to Sebastian Brather
Part III: Slavs and Avars
5. Slavs in Fredegar and Paul the Deacon: medieval gens of "scourge of God"?
6. Four questions for those who still believe in prehistoric Slavs and other fairy tales
7. Were there Slavs in seventh-century Macedonia?
8. The earliest Slavs in east central Europe? Remarks on the early medieval settlement in Nova Tabla (Slovenia)
9. An ironic smile: the Carpathian Mountains and the migration of the Slavs
10. The earliest Avar-age stirrups, or the "stirrup controversy" revisited
11. Avar Blitzkrieg, Slavic and Bulgar raiders, and Roman special ops: mobile warriors in the 6th-century Balkans
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