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From Goths to Varangians : Communication and Cultural Exchange between the Baltic and the Black Sea /

In late Antiquity, archaeology demonstrates lively and far-flung exchange along the river Dniester, through current Poland to the Baltic. By the 11th century the former Barbaricum had been transformed into a string of Christian kingdoms and principalities, whose parallel histories are as conspicuous...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Sindbaek, Soren M., Lind, John, 1945-, Hojberg Bjerg, Line Maj-Britt
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Aarhus : Aarhus University Press, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Line Bjerg, John H. Lind & Soren M. Sindbaek
  • The Russian controversy over the Varangians / Leo S. Klejn
  • At the watershed between the Baltic and Pontic before Gnezdovo / Johan Callmer
  • Networking north-eastern Barbaricum: a study of gold imitations of Roman coins / Helle Winge Horsnaes
  • The Herulians are coming! / Line Bjerg
  • Byzantium and the Scandinavian world in the 9th-10th century: material evidence of contacts / Fedir Androshchuk
  • Chasing gold threads: auratae vestes from Hellenistic ruler to Varangian guards / Margarita Gleba
  • Finds of Byzantine origin from the early urban centre Gnezdovo in the light of the contacts between Rus' and Constantinople (10
  • early 11th centuries AD) / Natalie Eniosova & Tamara Puškina
  • Scandinavians in the east of Europe: in search of glory or a new motherland? / Volodymyr Kovalenko
  • Viking warriors and the Byzantine Empire: was there a transfer of nautical technology? / Ole Crumlin-Pedersen
  • Mental maps of the Old Russian chronicle-writer of the early twelfth century / Elena Melnikova
  • Darkness in the East? Scandinavian scholars on the question of Easter influence in Scandinavia during the Viking Age and early Middle Ages / John H. Lind
  • The journey of St Clement's cult from the Black Sean to the Baltic Region / Ildar H. Garipzanov
  • Royal family connections and the Byzantine impact on Danish Romanesque church frescos. Queen Margareth Fredkulla and her nieces / Ulla Haastrup & John H. Lind.