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Record Nr.

UNINA9910964236203321

Autore

Stephenson Paul

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2000

ISBN

9780511083112

0511083114

9781107118928

1107118921

9781280154614

1280154616

9780511118234

0511118236

9780511150562

0511150563

9780511324697

0511324693

9780511496615

0511496613

9780511049262

0511049269

Edizione

[1st ed.]

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.