Böcker av Florin (University of Florida) Curta

This authoritative survey draws on historical and archaeological sources in the narration of 750 years of the history of southeastern Europe. It explores the rise of medieval states, the conversion to Christianity, the monastic movement and the role of material culture in the representation of power.

This book offers an alternative approach to the problem of Slavic ethnicity in south-eastern Europe between c. 500 and c. 700. The author shows how Byzantine authors 'invented' the Slavs, rejects the idea of Slavic migration, and shows that 'the Slavs' were the product of the frontier.