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The making of the slavs : history and archaeology of the Lower Danube Region, ca. 500-700 /
This book offers a new approach to the problem of Slavic ethnicity in south-eastern Europe between c. 500 and c. 700, from the perspective of current anthropological theories. The conceptual emphasis here is on the relation between material culture and ethnicity. The author demonstrates that the his...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2001.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought ;
4th ser., 52. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book offers a new approach to the problem of Slavic ethnicity in south-eastern Europe between c. 500 and c. 700, from the perspective of current anthropological theories. The conceptual emphasis here is on the relation between material culture and ethnicity. The author demonstrates that the history of the Sclavenes and the Antes begins only at around 500 AD. He also points to the significance of the archaeological evidence, which suggests that specific artifacts may have been used as identity markers. This evidence also indicates the role of local leaders in building group boundaries and in leading successful raids across the Danube. Because of these military and political developments, Byzantine authors began employing names such as Sclavines and Antes in order to make sense of the process of group identification that was taking place north of the Danube frontier. Slavic ethnicity is therefore shown to be a Byzantine invention.--Publisher description. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxv, 463 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 372-450) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511017790 9780511017797 051103248X 9780511032486 0511119402 9780511119408 9780511496295 051149629X 9786610159376 6610159378 1107122929 9781107122925 1280159375 9781280159374 0511325142 9780511325144 0511047754 9780511047756 |