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Informationen zum Autor Florin Curta is Professor of History at University of Florida! USA. He is the author of The Making of the Slavs: History and Archaeology of the Lower Danube (2002! winner of the Herbert Baxter Adams Award of the American Historical Association 2003) and editor of The Other Europe in the Middle Ages (2012). A social and economic history of eastern Europe in the long 6th century. Zusammenfassung There is a sense in which the medieval history of eastern Europe begins with the year 568 AD when the Avars defeated the Gepids and the Lombards migrated to Italy. And yet! as Eastern Europe in the Early Middles Ages shows! this is misleading: not only did the Gepids survive under Avar rule but political developments in the Carpathian Basin and the Balkans had begun before this time. To rectify this! Florin Curta explores the social and economic developments of 6th-century eastern Europe! looking west to east from today's Czech Republic to the Urals and north to south from the Arctic Circle to Greece. Incorporating recent historiographical scholarship and making use of a vast array of archival and archaeological sources! this masterful and nuanced study is the first comparative history of east central and eastern Europe in the early middle ages. As such! it will be a vital resource to all students of early medieval history. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements I. Introduction 1. The Transition from Antiquity to the Middle Ages: A Glimpse into the Current State of Research2. Eastern Europe: Concepts! Geography! Climate History II. The Roman Orbit 3. The Balkans during the Last Century of Roman Power4. The Balkan 'Dark Ages'5. A Periphery Without 'Dark Ages': Crimea6. Roman Clients: The Carpathian Basin and the World Beyond It7. In the Shadow of the Empire: The Lower Danube Region III. Far Away from the Empire 8. Demographic Collapse in East Central Europe: Poland at the end of Late Antiquity9. Stability and Expansion in the Baltic Region10. Was there Nomadic Pastoralism in the Steppe Lands of East Europe?11. Nomadic Pastoralism in East Central Europe? The First Avar Century12. Societies on the Edge: The Forest-Steppe Belt of Eastern Europe13. Subsisting Without Social Hierarchy in the Forest Belt14. Social Differentiation in the Central Parts of Eastern Europe15. Prosperity in the Tiaga: The Far East of Eastern Europe IV. Specific Trends 16. Prosperity 17. Subsistence Economy18. Crafts and Social Differentiation19. Trade and Non-Commercial Exchanges20. Social Change in Eastern EuropeConclusionBibliography Index ...
