Byzantium's Balkan Frontier: A Political Study of the Northern Balkans, 900-1204Cambridge University Press
Paul Stephenson
ISBN: 0521770173
price: $74.95 hardcover
This is a narrative political history of the northern Balkans in the
period 900-1204. It treats the Balkans as the frontier of the Byzantine
empire, and considers imperial relations with the peoples living in the
Balkans, including the Serbs, Croats, Bulgarians and Hungarians. It also
considers responses to invasions from beyond the frontier: by steppe nomads,
from beyond the Danube, and by western powers through Hungary and across the
Adriatic sea. The first four crusades, 1095-1204, are considered in some detail,
and extensive use is made of archaeology.
|
