ISBN:
9781443882286
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (236 pages)
Edition:
1st ed
Parallel Title:
Print version Minaeva, Oksana Scandinavia and the Balkans : Cultural Interactions with Byzantium and Eastern Europe in the First Millennium AD
DDC:
303.48248039999999
Keywords:
Scandinavia--Relations--Byzantine Empire
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Electronic books
Abstract:
This book brings together articles based on papers given at the "Scandinavia and the Balkans: Cultural Interactions with Byzantium and Eastern Europe in the First Millennium" conference, held on 25 and 26 September 2012 at the New Bulgarian University, Sofia. The conference was designed to pave the way for studies on the connections between the Balkans and Scandinavia to develop within a broader context, to promote the successes of the researchers who have dedicated their efforts to this scholarly field, and to articulate the importance of this topic to scholarly investigations, education and society.The topic of this book is one that has rarely been discussed in academic studies, while it is almost unknown in social and cultural contexts. While it may seem to deal with a rather narrow historical frame, remote from today's reality - the relationship between two distant geographical and cultural areas in the past - in fact, the focus, or rather multiple foci on this topic offered here explore a number of aspects of the transition from Antiquity to the Middle Ages in the Balkans and Scandinavia
Abstract:
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: Glimpses on Early Contacts between Scandinavia and the Balkans -- The Gundestrup Cauldron -- An Epigraphic Monument of the Goths from Constantinople -- The Old German Runics and the Gotho-Moesian Alphabet of Bishop Wulfila from the Foot of the Balkan Mountain Range -- Part II: Meetings of Scandinavia and the Balkans as Reflected in Written Sources -- Rus', Scandinavians and the Balkans in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries -- The Penetration of Eastern Christianity into Scandinavia -- Harald, Bolgara Brennir, in Byzantine Service -- Gaining Glory, Wisdom and Knowledge -- The Giants-Motif in Medieval Europe, North and South -- The Episode about the "Unclean" Nations in the Serbian Alexandrida and the Chronograph-Alexandria -- Part III: Scandinavia and the Balkans -- Drekar from Hagia Sofia -- Concerning the Size of Rus' -- Close Encounters with the Byzantine Border Zones -- Jaroslavl Volga Area in the System of International Relations during the Early Medieval Epoch -- Traces of Scandinavian Warriors' Presence in the Balkans -- Eastern Imports in the Arctic
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