Byzantium's Balkan Frontier: A Political Study of the Northern Balkans, 900 1204 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521770170)

This is a narrative political history of the northern Balkans in the period 900-1204. It treats the Balkans as the frontier of the Byzantine empire, and considers imperial relations with the peoples living in the Balkans, including the Serbs, Croats, Bulgarians and Hungarians. It also considers responses to invasions from beyond the frontier: by steppe nomads, from beyond the Danube, and by western powers through Hungary and across the Adriatic sea. The first four crusades, 1095-1204, are considered in some detail, and extensive use is made of archaeology.

Author: Paul Stephenson, Stephenson Paul
ISBN-10: 0521770173
ISBN-13: 9780521770170
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/29/2000
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.27h x 6.25w x 1.05d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2001 pg. 1325