The Early Slavs

This book presents an introductory and comprehensive history of the Slavic-speaking peoples who inhabited Eastern and Southern Europe during the seven-hundred-year period stretching from the first archaeological and historical records to the establishment of their first organised polities.

Autorentext

Susana Torres Prieto is Associate Professor in the Humanities at IE University (Madrid), Spain. Her research focuses on Medieval Slavic literature and culture. In her publications, she analyses textual transmission in Slavic medieval literatures from a comprehensive perspective, encompassing literary, translation and manuscript studies, and incorporating the latest developments in digital humanities. She co-edited the volume Medieval Rus' and Early Modern Russia: Texts and Contexts (Routledge 2023, with Andrei Franklin).

Inhalt

Introduction

Chapter 1: Historiographic sources and archaeological evidence

Chapter 2: The earliest Slavs

Chapter 3: Trade and slavery

Chapter 4: The earliest polities

Chapter 5: Christianisation

Chapter 6: Written culture

Epilogue: Identities

APPENDIX: Comparative chronology (530-1230)