| Physical description |
xvii, 367 pages, 13 pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450 ; v. 16. |
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East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450 ; v. 16.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1.The Sources -- 1.1.The Chronographia -- 1.1.1.Authorship and Date of Composition -- 1.1.2.Theophanes and the Bulgars -- 1.1.3.The Bulgar Narrative -- a).The Years 775-802 -- b).The Years 802-810 -- c).The Campaign of 811 -- d).The Years 811-813 -- 1.2.The Chronicle of 811 and the Scriptor Incertus de Leone Armenio -- a).The Campaign of 811 -- b).The Years 813-814 -- 1.3.George the Monk, the Logothete's Chronicle and the Scriptores Post Theophanem -- a).The Battle of Mesembria -- 1.4.Hagiography -- a).The Story of the Martyrs of Adrianople -- 1.5.Other Byzantine Literary Sources -- 1.6.Syriac, Arabic, Armenian and Frankish Sources -- 1.7.The Proto-Bulgarian Inscriptions -- 1.8.Archaeology -- 2.The Geographical and Historical Setting -- 2.1.The Physical Context, Routes and Cities -- 2.2.The Internal Organization of the Khanate -- 2.2.1.Social, Political and Military Organization -- 2.2.2.The Religion of the Proto-Bulgarians -- |
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Contents note continued: 2.3.The Historical Background of the Conflict -- 2.4.The Byzantine and Bulgar Defence -- 3.Bulgaria's Northern Neighbours and the Black Sea Zone in the Seventh to Ninth Centuries -- 3.1.From "Old Great Bulgaria" to the Danube Khanate. The Historical Background to Asparuch's Migration to the Balkans -- 3.2.Bulgaria's Northern Neighbours, Late Seventh to Early Ninth Century: A Brief Overview -- 3.2.1.The Geographical Setting -- 3.2.2.Wallachia and the Bulgars -- 3.2.3.The Southern Regions of the Carpathian Basin -- 3.2.4.Transylvania -- 3.2.5.The Steppes North of the Black Sea -- 3.2.6.The Crimea -- 4.Conflict and Contact, 775-802 -- 4.1.The Byzantine Empire under Leo IV (775-780) -- 4.2.Byzantine-Bulgar Relations under Leo IV -- 4.3.The Empire under Irene and Constantine VI (780-802) -- 4.4.Byzantium and Bulgaria, 780-802 -- 5.Emperor versus Khan: Byzantium and Bulgaria, 802-811 -- 5.1.The Byzantine Empire under Nikephoros I -- |
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Contents note continued: 5.2.Byzantine-Bulgar Relations from 802 to 810 -- 5.2.1.The Collapse of the Avar Qaghanate and the Bulgars -- 5.2.2.Nikephoros' Balkan Expansion and the War with Bulgaria -- 5.3.The Campaign of 811 -- 6.The Bulgar Offensive, 811-814 -- 6.1.The Empire under Michael I (811-813) -- 6.2.The Byzantine-Bulgar War During the Reign of Michael I -- 6.2.1.From Nikephoros' Defeat to the Fall of Mesembria -- 6.2.2.The Byzantine Campaign of 813 and the Battle of Versinikia -- 6.3.The War in Leo V's Reign -- 6.3.1.Byzantium under Leo V (813-820) -- 6.3.2.The Bulgar Siege of Constantinople -- 6.3.3.The War until the Death of Krum (April 814) -- 7.The Last Phase of the War and the Conclusion of the Thirty Years' Peace -- 7.1.The Internal Crisis in Bulgaria and the Battle of Mesembria -- 7.2.The Thirty Years' Peace -- 8.The Reign of Omurtag and the Transformation of Early Medieval Bulgaria -- 8.1.Reconstructing Omurtag's Power -- |
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Contents note continued: 8.2.Bulgaria and Byzantium During the Reign of Omurtag. |
| Subject |
Byzantine Empire -- Relations -- Bulgaria.
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Bulgaria -- Relations -- Byzantine Empire.
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Byzantine Empire -- Foreign relations -- 527-1081.
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Bulgaria -- History -- To 1393.
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| ISBN |
9789004206953 (hardback) No price |
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9004206957 (hardback) No price |
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