Other Europe in the Middle Ages

The Other Europe in the Middle Ages
Avars, Bulgars, Khazars and Cumans Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450
General Editor: Florin Curta

CONTENTS

Preface

Florin Curta
Introduction

Tivadar Vida
Conflict and coexistence: the local population of the Carpathian Basin under Avar rule (sixth to seventh century)

Peter Stadler
Avar chronology revisited, and the question of ethnicity in the Avar qaganate

Péter Somogyi
New remarks on the flow of Byzantine coins in Avaria and Walachia during the second half of the seventh century

Uwe Fiedler
Bulgars in the Lower Danube region. A survey of the archaeological evidence and of the state of current research

Orsolya Heinrich-Tamaska
Avar-age metalworking technologies in the Carpathian Basin (sixth to eighth century)

Bartłomiej Szymon Szmoniewski
Two worlds, one hoard: what do metal finds from the forest-steppe belt speak about?

Florin Curta
The earliest Avar-age stirrups, or the “stirrup controversy” revisited

Valeri Iotov
A note on the “Hungarian sabers” of medieval Bulgaria

Veselina Vachkova
Danube Bulgaria and Khazaria as part of the Byzantine oikoumene

Tsvetelin Stepanov
From ‘steppe’ to Christian empire and back: Bulgaria between
800 and 1100

Dimitri Korobeinikov
A broken mirror: the Kıpçak world in the thirteenth century

Victor Spinei
The Cuman bishopric—genesis and evolution