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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.

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Author:   Mykola Melnyk
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   79
Weight:   0.808kg
ISBN:  

9789004280465

ISBN 10:   9004280464
Pages:   400
Publication Date:   22 February 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction 1 Byzantium and the Pechenegs  Vasilievskiĭ 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

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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).

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