Medieval Europe From Another Angle

Florin Curta is Professor of Medieval History and Archaeology at the University of Florida. His books include Slavs in the Making (Routledge, 2021) and The Long Sixth Century in Eastern Europe (2021). He is also the editor of The Other Europe in the Middle Ages: Avars, Bulgars, Khazars, and Cumans (2008) and Neglected Barbarians (2011). Curta is the editor of the online Bibliography of the History and Archaeology of Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, and co-editor of the series “East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450–1450.”

• IntroductionPart I: Economy1. Coins, forts and commercial exchanges in the sixth- and early seventh-century Balkans2. Postcards from Maurilia, or the historiography of the Dark-Age cities of Byzantium3. Origins of the European economy. A debate with Michael McCormick. East Central Europe4. A note on trade and trade centers in the eastern and northern Adriatic region between the eighth and the ninth century5. Markets in tenth-century al-Andalus and Volga Bulgharia: contrasting views of trade in Muslim EuropePart 2: Charlemagne and later issues6. Charlemagne in medieval East Central Europe (ca. 800 to ca. 1200)7. Linear frontiers in the 9th century: Bulgaria and Wessex8. Constantinople and the echo chamber. The Vlachs in the French crusade chronicles9. Teutonic hierotopy: St. Christopher at LochstedtBibliography