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List of Maps I-XII … vi Preface … vii Chronological Summary … xvi ◦ Introduction … 1 — The sources … 3 — The geographical background … 20 ◦ 1. The Formation of a Slav Identity … 27 — Who were the Early Slavs … 27 — The crystallization of a Slav identity … 35 ◦ 2. Expansion and Assimilation: the Sixth Century … 45 — Phase I: c. 500-550 … 47 — Phase II: c. 550-600 … 55 ◦ 3. Consolidation and Social Change: the Seventh Century … 67 — The reflux … 80 — An end to austerity … 82 ◦ 4. Decisive Decades: the Eighth and Ninth centuries … 89 — The South Slavs and Byzantium … 91 — The East Slavs … 96 — The West Slavs … 104 ◦ 5. Daily Life … 113 — The people … 113 — Dress and hygiene … 115 — The family home … 119 ◦ 6. The Order of Things: Social Structure … 124 — Big men and chiefs … 125 — Settlement patterns and social organization … 129 — The role of the strongholds … 131 — States and nations … 133 ◦ 7. Warfare … 139 — Inter-group skirmishes … 140 — Organized force … 142 — Military role of strongholds … 144 — Imposition of will … 147 — Prisoners of war … 148 ◦ 8. Production, Consumption and Exchange … 150 — Agricultural production … 153 — Craft products … 159 — The slave trade … 166 — Trad

Author

P. M. Barford

Publisher

London: British Museum Press

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780714128047

Subjects

History, Humanities