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

Stephenson, Paul

Cambridge University Press（2000/06発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 368 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780521770170
• DDC分類 949.502

Full 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.

Contents

List of maps and figures; Preface; A note on citation and transliteration; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Bulgaria and beyond: the northern Balkans (c. 900-963); 2. The Byzantine occupation of Bulgaria (963-1025); 3. Northern nomads (1025-1100); 4. Southern Slavs (1025-1100); 5. The rise of the west, I: Normans and crusaders (1081-1118); 6. The rise of the west, II: Hungarians and Venetians (1100-1143); 7. Manuel I Comnenus confronts the West (1143-1156); 8. Advancing the frontier: the annexation of Sirmium and Dalmatia (1156-1180); 9. Casting off the 'Byzantine yoke' (1180-1204); Conclusions; Bibliography; Index.