Byzantium's Balkan frontier : a political study of the Northern Balkans, 900-1204 / / Paul Stephenson [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910454672403321
• Autore: Stephenson Paul
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2000
• ISBN: 1-107-11892-1; 1-280-15461-6; 0-511-11823-6; 0-511-15056-3; 0-511-32469-3; 0-511-49661-3; 0-511-04926-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 352 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 949.6/0144
• Soggetti: Balkan Peninsula Politics and government; Byzantine Empire Politics and government 527-1081; Byzantine Empire Politics and government 1081-1453; Byzantine Empire Ethnic relations
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 324-344) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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)."
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.