Byzantium and the Pechenegs

The Historiography of the Problem
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-28046-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 79, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 808 g

Reihe: East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450

This book traces 150 years’ worth of scholarly interpretations of relations between Byzantium and various North Pontic nomads, with particular attention to how colonialist or national aspirations often triggered, hampered, biased, or otherwise influenced these interpretations. Original in its interdisciplinary approach, Mykola Melnyk’s book highlights an overlooked topic: the history of non-historic peoples. Going beyond the well-studied written sources for nomadic history, the author incorporates insights provided by archaeology, linguistics, and the natural sciences, bringing forth promising avenues of research into the subject of nomadic cultures in the medieval world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Melnyk, Mykola

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Byzantinische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction

1 Byzantium and the Pechenegs

Vasilievskii to Moravcsik

1 Byzantium, the Pechenegs, and the Black Sea Straits

2 Byzantium and the Nomads of the North Pontic Steppes in European Historiography, Mid-19th to Mid-20th Centuries

2 “Poised Perception”

Trans-Danubian Turks in the Historiography of the Balkan-Danubian Countries

1 Preconditions

2 The Pechenegs and Cumans and Their Relations with Byzantium in Hungarian Historiography, Mid-20th to Early 21st Centuries

3 Romanian Historiography

4 Bulgarian Historiography

5 Historiography of Other Countries of the Region

3 Eastern European Historiography since 1945

1 Soviet and Post-Soviet Archaeology

2 Soviet and Post-Soviet Medieval Studies

3 Oriental Studies

4 International Byzantine and Oriental Studies

1 Congresses of Byzantine Studies

2 Publication of Major Sources

3 Visions

4 Specific Problems in the History of Byzantium’s Relations with Steppe Dwellers and Attempts to Solve Them

5 Oriental Studies

Conclusions

1 Periodization

2 Source Base and Methodology

3 Byzantium, Nomads, and National Historiographies

4 Byzantine-Nomadic Relations and World Byzantine and Oriental Studies

Selected Bibliography

Index of Geographic and Ethnic Names

Index of Persons 000

Index of Modern Authors 000

Über Autor(innen)

Mykola Melnyk, Ph.D. (2007), the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, served as an associate professor at that university, and is currently an independent scholar. He has published many articles on historiography and the history of scholarship, and co-authored The History of Byzantium: Introduction to Byzantinology (Lviv, 2011).