β Scribed by Mykola Melnyk; Yaroslav Prykhodko
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
This book traces 150 yearsβ worth of scholarly interpretations of relations between Byzantium and various North Pontic nomads, with particular attention to how colonialist or national aspirations often triggered, hampered, biased, or otherwise influenced these interpretations. Original in its interdisciplinary approach, Mykola Melnykβs book highlights an overlooked topic: the history of non-historic peoples. Going beyond the well-studied written sources for nomadic history, the author incorporates insights provided by archaeology, linguistics, and the natural sciences, bringing forth promising avenues of research into the subject of nomadic cultures in the medieval world.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1 Byzantium and the Pechenegs:
VasilievskiΔ to Moravcsik
1 Byzantium, the Pechenegs, and the Black Sea Straits
2 Byzantium and the Nomads of the North Pontic Steppes in
European Historiography, Mid-19th to Mid-20th Centuries
2.1 Historical Writing in the Russian Empire before 1917
2.2 European Oriental Studies and the History and Languages of the Medieval Nomads of the Western Eurasian Steppes. Hungarian
and Turkish Historiography
2.3 βThe Battle for Historyβ: Romanian Historiography, Bulgarian
Historiography, and the Lower Danube in the 10th to 12th Centuries
2.4 Russian and Ukrainian Historiography in the 1920sβ1940s
2.5 10th- to 11th-Century Relations between Byzantium and
Trans-Danubian Nomads in International Byzantine Studies
Chapter 2 βPoised Perceptionβ: Trans-Danubian Turks in the Historiography
of the Balkan-Danubian Countries
1 Preconditions
2 The Pechenegs and Cumans and Their Relations with Byzantium
in Hungarian Historiography, Mid-20th to Early 21st Centuries
2.1 Hungarian Oriental Studies
2.2 Medieval Studies
2.3 Archaeology
3 Romanian Historiography
4 Bulgarian Historiography
4.1 Archaeology
4.2 Medieval and Byzantine Studies
5 Historiography of Other Countries in the Region
Chapter 3
Eastern European Historiography since 1945
1 Soviet and Post-Soviet Archaeology
1.1 Interpreting the Archaeological Record of the Late Nomads
of the North Pontic Steppe
1.2 11th- to 12th-Century Nomadic Archaeological Remains in the
Prut-Dniester Region
1.3 The Pechenegs and the North Crimean Canal: Exploring Nomadic
Archaeological Remains in Crimea
2 Soviet and Post-Soviet Medieval Studies
3 Oriental Studies
Chapter 4
International Byzantine and Oriental Studies
1 Congresses of Byzantine Studies
2 Publication of Major Sources
3 Visions
4 Selected Problems in the History of Byzantiumβs Relations
with Steppe Dwellers and Attempts to Solve Them
5 Oriental Studies
Conclusions
1 Periodization
2 Source Base and Methodology
3 Byzantium, Nomads, and National Historiographies
4 Byzantine-Nomadic Relations and International Byzantine
and Oriental Studies
Selected Bibliography
Index of Geographic and Ethnic Names
Index of Persons
Index of Modern Authors
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