The other Europe in the Middle Ages

Preface Florin Curta, Introduction 1. Tivadar Vida, Conflict and coexistence: the local population of the Carpathian Basin under Avar rule (sixth to seventh century) 2. Peter Stadler, Avar chronology revisited, and the question of ethnicity in the Avar qaganate 3. Peter Somogyi, New remarks on the flow of Byzantine coins in Avaria and Walachia during the second half of the seventh century 4. Uwe Fiedler, Bulgars in the Lower Danube region. A survey of the archaeological evidence and of the state of current research 5. Orsolya Heinrich-Tamaska, Avar-age metalworking technologies in the Carpathian Basin (sixth to eighth century) 6. Bartlomiej Szymon Szmoniewski, Two worlds, one hoard: what do metal finds from the forest-steppe belt speak about? 7. Florin Curta, The earliest Avar-age stirrups, or the stirrup controversy revisited 8. Valeri Iotov, A note on the Hungarian sabers of medieval Bulgaria 9. Veselina Vachkova, Danube Bulgaria and Khazaria as part of the Byzantine oikoumene 10. Tsvetelin Stepanov, From 'steppe' to Christian empire and back: Bulgaria between 800 and 1100 11. Dimitri Korobeinikov, A broken mirror: the Kipcak world in the thirteenth century 12. Victor Spinei, The Cuman bishopric - genesis and evolution 13. Florin Curta, The history and archaeology of the other Europe. A bibliography List of contributors

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