Byzantium's Balkan Frontier: A Political Study of the Northern Balkans, 900-1204

Byzantium's Balkan Frontier: A Political Study of the Northern Balkans, 900-1204
ISBN-10
0521770173
ISBN-13
9780521770170
Category
History
Pages
366
Language
English
Published
2000-06-29
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Authors
Paul Stephenson, Professor of History and Head of the School of History and Heritage Paul Stephenson, Stephenson Paul

Description

Byzantium's Balkan Frontier is the first narrative history in English of the northern Balkans in the tenth to twelfth centuries. Where previous histories have been concerned principally with the medieval history of distinct and autonomous Balkan nations, this study regards Byzantine political authority as a unifying factor in the various lands which formed the empire's frontier in the north and west. It takes as its central concern Byzantine relations with all Slavic and non-Slavic peoples - including the Serbs, Croats, Bulgarians and Hungarians - in and beyond the Balkan Peninsula, and explores in detail imperial responses, first to the migrations of nomadic peoples, and subsequently to the expansion of Latin Christendom. It also examines the changing conception of the frontier in Byzantine thought and literature through the middle Byzantine period.

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