Danijel Dzino, Ph.D. (2006), University of Adelaide, is Lecturer in Ancient History and International Studies (Croatian studies) at Macquarie University, Sydney. He has published monographs and articles on ancient and medieval history and the archaeology of Dalmatia.Ante Milošević, Ph.D. (2005), University of Zadar, is Director of Museum of Croatian Archaeological Monuments in Split. He has published monographs and articles in all areas of archaeology and art history, especially in field of Croatian medieval archaeology.Trpimir Vedriš, Ph.D. (2009, University of Zagreb), Ph.D. (2015, Central European University), is Senior Lecturer at Department of History, University of Zagreb. He has (co)edited number of volumes and published extensively on medieval hagiography and cult of the saints in the Adriatic.

• PrefaceList of FiguresNotes on Contributors1 A View from the Carolingian Frontier ZoneDanijel Dzino, Ante Milošević and Trpimir VedrišPart 1: Historiography2 From Byzantium to the West: ‘Croats and Carolingians’ as a Paradigm-Change in the Research of Early Medieval DalmatiaDanijel Dzino3 Carolingian Renaissance or Renaissance of the 9th Century on the Eastern Adriatic?Neven BudakPart 2: Migrations4 Migration or Transformation: The Roots of the Early Medieval Croatian PolityMladen Ančić5 The Products of the ‘Tetgis Style’ from the Eastern Adriatic HinterlandAnte Milošević6 Carolingian Weapons and the Problem of Croat Migration and EthnogenesisGoran BilogrivićPart 3: Integration7 Integration on the Fringes of the Frankish Empire. The Case of the Carantanians and their NeighboursPeter Štih8 Istria under the Carolingian RuleMiljenko Jurković9 The Collapse and Integration into the Empire: Carolingian-Age Lower Pannonia in the Material RecordKrešimir Filipec10 Imperium and Regnum in Gottschalk’s Description of DalmatiaIvan BasićPart 4: Networks11 Liber Methodius between the Byzantium and the West: Traces of the Oldest Slavonic Legal Collection in Medieval CroatiaMarko Petrak12 The Installation of the Patron Saints of Zadar as a Result of Carolingian Adriatic PoliticsNikola Jakšić13 Church, Churchyard, and Children in the Early Medieval Balkans: A Comparative PerspectiveFlorin Curta14 Trade and Culture Process at a 9th-Century Mediterranean Monastic Statelet: San Vincenzo al VolturnoRichard Hodges15 Afterword. ‘Croats and Carolingians’: Triumph of a New Historiographic Paradigm or Ideologically Charged Project?Trpimir VedrišBibliographyIndex

"A book that serves as a stimulating introduction to a complicated part of European history. [...] This volume makes readers want to study the region in greater detail. Reading these articles will probably help instill a sense of self-confidence in the readers to tackle the available sources anew, or even attempt a comparative venture, for instance by measuring these conclusions against observations about identity formation in other frontier zones like Frisia, Catalonia, or Bretagne: also regions primarily described by enemies and overlords, but interpreted by "insiders". This may be the biggest achievement of this book: it shows that the "Southeastern Frontier of the Carolingian Empire" should be seen not as an Other, but as an equal". Rutger Kramer, in The Medieval Review, April 2021. You can access the full review here>.