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Vikings in the East
Androshchuk, Fedir

In his book, Fedir Androshchuk provides a comprehensive insight about the contacts between Scandinavians, Kievan Rus’, and Byzantium in the 9th–11th centuries. Through archaeological and written sources, he examines how trade, political networks, and cultural exchange shaped the formation of hybrid identities.

Review by: Scheuerle, Anita, 2025-11-13 10:42
#Androshchuk, Fedir
#Byzantine Empire
#Eastern Europe
#Rus
#Scandinavia
#Archaeology
#Burials
#Trade
#Warfare and Military Organization
#Early Middle Ages
#High Middle Ages

Slavery After Rome, 500–1100
Alice Rio

This study deals with the many forms of slavery that resiliently continued in the Euro-Mediterranean world after the end of the Western Roman Empire, studying the major post-Roman polities with a comparative lens. The book’s main thesis concerns our understanding of early medieval unfreedom itself; according to the author, different categories of unfreedom could be adopted by landlords to manage and control their labour pool.

Review by: Visintini, Eduard, 2025-03-04 03:20
#Alice Rio
#Europe
#Slavery
#Early Middle Ages
#High Middle Ages

Between Ravenna and Constantinople. Rethinking Late Antique Settlement Patterns
Ciglenečki, Slavko

In Between Ravenna and Constantinople, the Slovenian archaeologist Slavko Ciglenečki presents a comprehensive analysis of the profound changes in settlement patterns during Late Antiquity.

Review by: Fischer, Samira, 2024-11-20 03:27
#Ciglenečki, Slavko
#Mediterranean
#Southern and Central Europe
#Archaeology
#Early Middle Ages
#Late Antiquity

Religious Horror and Holy War in Viking Age Francia
Gillis, Bryan

Bryan  Gillis explores the use of what he labels “horror rhetoric” by West-Francian authors in response to the misery befalling the kingdom from the 880s until the 920s

Review by: Peters, Bart, 2022-09-27 08:00
#Gillis, Bryan
#France
#Latin Europe
#Historiography
#Reception History
#Carolingians
#Violence
#Early Middle Ages
#Middle Ages

Krieg und Christentum, Opening chapter on War and Christianity
Holzem, Andreas

Holzem  argues that the assumption of a general violence-promoting tendency of the monotheistic religions (Christianity, Islam, Judaism), is too short-sighted

Review by: Rapp, Michael, 2022-09-27 07:53
#Holzem, Andreas
#Latin Europe
#Theology
#Violence
#Early Middle Ages

The Byzantine Science of Warfare: From Treatises to Battlefield
Salmon, Thomas

Thomas Salmon aims at providing an overview on the characterizing features of the Byzantine science of warfare, siege and weaponry

Review by: Schoneveld, Katharina, 2022-09-08 08:46
#Salmon, Thomas
#Byzantine Empire
#Siegecraft
#Tactics and military organization
#Early Middle Ages
#Middle Ages

A History of Byzantium
Gregory Timothy E.

Timothy E.Gregory gives an overview over Byzantium’s history from the 3rd century to the fall of Constantinople.

Review by: Guthier, Sophia Sonja, 2022-03-18 08:44
#Gregory Timothy E.
#Byzantine Empire
#Cultural History
#Historiography
#Byzantine-Persian relations
#Constantine
#Early Middle Ages
#Late Middle Ages
#Middle Ages

Military saints in Byzantium and Rus, 900-1200
White, Monica

Military saints in Byzantium and Rus, 900-1200 examines the changes which  cults of Byzantine military saints underwent in Rus.

Review by: Guthier, Sophia Sonja, 2021-10-11 02:27
#White, Monica
#Byzantine Empire
#Rus
#Ideology
#Saints, Hagiography and Warfare
#Demetrios
#George
#Theodore
#Early Middle Ages

Graphic Signs of Authority in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, 300–900
Garipzanov, Ildar

Graphic Signs of Authority in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, 300–900 deals with the cultural history of what the author calls „graphic signs“.

Review by: Stabel, Andrea, 2021-09-20 07:34
#Garipzanov, Ildar
#Europe
#Archaeology
#Ideology
#Numismatics
#Burials
#Coins
#Constantine
#Early Middle Ages
#Late Antiquity

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