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基本説明
"Variorum Collected Studies: CS752"
Full Description
The western steppelands of Central Eurasia, stretching from the Danube, through the modern Ukraine and southern Russia, to the Caspian, have historically been the meeting ground of Inner Asian pastoral nomads and the agrarian societies of Eastern Europe and the Caucasus. This volume deals, firstly, with the interaction of the nomads with their sedentary neighbours - the Kievan Rus' state and the medieval polities of Transcaucasia, Georgia in particular - in the period from the 6th century to the advent of the Mongols. Second, it looks at questions of nomadic ethnogenesis (Oghuz, Hungarian, Qipchaq), at the evolution of nomadic political traditions and the heritage of the Turk empire, and at aspects of indigenous nomadic religious traditions together with the impact of foreign religions on the nomads - notably the conversion of the Khazars to Judaism. A number of articles focus on the Qipchaqs, a powerful confederation of complex Inner Asian origins that played a crucial role in the history of Christian Eastern Europe and Transcaucasia and the Muslim world between the 11th and 13th centuries.
Contents
Contents: Foreword; PEOPLES AND CULTURES: Imperial ideology and the sources of political unity amongst the pre-Cinggisid nomads of Western Eurasia; Turkic calques in medieval Eastern Slavic; Khazaria and Judaism; NOMADS AND THEIR NEIGHBOURS: The Turkic peoples and Caucasia; The migrations of the Oguz; The question of the Rus' Qaganate; Aspects of the nomadic factor in the economic development of Kievan Rus'; The Cernii Klobouci; The Qipchaqs: The Qipcaqs of medieval Eurasia: an example of stateless adaptation in the Steppes; The Polovci Dikii; Cumanica I: the Qipcaqs in Georgia; Cumanica II : the Ã-lberli (Ã-lperli): the fortunes and misfortunes of an inner Asian nomadic clan; Cumanica III: Urusoba; Wolves, dogs and Qipcaq religion; Index.
