Author: STEPHENSON, PAUL
Title: Byzantium's Balkan Frontier a Political Study of the Northern Balkans, 900-1204
Description: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Hardcover. ISBN: 0521770173. Minor shelfwear to book and DJ. ; 368 pages; 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.. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

Keywords: 0521770173 Political Science Byzantine Studies Byzantine Empire Medieval History Balkans Medieval Studies


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