An edition of The making of the slavs
(2001)
The making of the Slavs
History and archaeology of the Lower Danube Region, ca. 500-700
by Florin Curta
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xxv, 463 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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The making of the Slavs: History and archaeology of the Lower Danube Region, ca. 500-700
2001, Cambridge University Press
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Table of Contents
Contents … vii
List of figures … ix
List of tables … xiii
Acknowledgments … xiv
List of abbreviations …xv
Introduction … 1
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1. SLAVIC ETHNICITY AND THE ETHNIE OF THE SLAVS: CONCEPTS AND APPROACHES … 6
― The historiography of Slavic ethnicity … 6
― What is ethnicity? … 14
― What is ethnie? … 22
― Ethnicity, material culture and archaeology … 24
― Ethnicity and style … 31
― Conclusion … 34
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2. SOURCES FOR THE HISTORY OF THE EARLY SLAVS (C. 500—700) … 36
― Procopius and Jordanes … 36
― The Slavs, the theory of climates, and Constantinople … 43
― Slavs or Avars? … 49
― The saint and the barbarians … 52
― The siege of Constantinople, the campaign diary, and the Wends … 54
― The saint and the barbarians again … 61
― Later sources … 63
― Conclusion … 71
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3. THE SLAVS IN EARLY MEDIEVAL SOURCES (C. 500—700) … 74
― Slavic raiding during Justinian’s reign … 75
― The Avars and the Slavs: raiding activity in the 580s … 90
― War against the Sclavenes: Maurice’s campaigns of the 590s … 99
― The seventh century … 107
― Conclusion … 113
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4. THE BALKANS AND THE DANUBE LIMES DURING THE SIXTH AND SEVENTH CENTURIES … 120
― Urban change in the Balkans … 121
― Cities: the archaeological evidence (Figure 1) … 124
― Changing cities, rural settlements, and monasteries … 142
― The limes and the sixth-century Balkans … 150
― Procopius and the limes … 151
― The limes and the Balkans: an archaeological survey (Figure 2) … 155
― Inflation in the Balkans and the end of the limes: the evidence of coin hoards … 169
― Conclusion … 181
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5. BARBARIANS ON THE SIXTH-CENTURY DANUBE FRONTIER: AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY … 190
― The Carpathian Basin … 190
― The Avars … 204
― The steppe north of the Black Sea … 208
― Conclusion … 223
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6. ELITES AND GROUP IDENTITY NORTH OF THE DANUBE FRONTIER: THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE … 227
― Dating the change: where were the earliest Slavs? … 228
― “Slavic” bow fibulae in Eastern Europe … 247
― Grubenhäuser, pots, and clay pans: material culture in action … 276
― Conclusion … 307
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7. “KINGS” AND “DEMOCRACY”: POWER IN EARLY SLAVIC SOCIETY … 311
― “Military democracy”: useful concept or Procrustean bed? … 312
― Segmentary society: ideology or actuality? … 319
― Great-men, big-men, and chiefs … 325
― Conclusion … 332
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CONCLUSION: THE MAKING OF THE SLAVS … 335
― Migration … 335
― Ethnicity and ethnie: the view from the inside … 338
― The Slavic ethnie: the view from the outside … 346
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Appendix A: List of settlement features used in the seriation by correspondence analysis … 351
Appendix B: Handmade and wheelmade pots used for shape analysis … 366
References … 372
Index … 451
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 372-450) and index.
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