The Pechenegs: Nomads in the Political and Cultural Landscape of Medieval Europe

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-43489-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 74, 441 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 920 g

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

In The Pechenegs: Nomads in the Political and Cultural Landscape of Medieval Europe, Aleksander Paron offers a reflection on the history of the Pechenegs, a nomadic people which came to control the Black Sea steppe by the end of the ninth century. Nomadic peoples have often been presented in European historiography as aggressors and destroyers whose appearance led to only chaotic decline and economic stagnation. Making use of historical and archaeological sources along with abundant comparative material, Aleksander Paron offers here a multifaceted and cogent image of the nomads’ relations with neighboring political and cultural communities in the tenth and eleventh centuries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

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Paron, Aleksander

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Archäologie spezieller Regionen und Zeitalter
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Aleksander Paron, Ph.D. (2005), Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences, is Professor at that institute. He has published many articles on Eurasian nomads in the Middle Ages and their relations with the outside world.