Cover illustration: Emperor in pursuit of a wolf. Illustration from the Codex Græcus Matritensis Ioannis Skyllitzes, Fol. 86r. Courtesy Biblioteca Nacional de España.
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Names: Melnyk, Mykola, 1976– author. | Prykhodko, Yaroslav, translator.
Title: Byzantium and the Pechenegs : the historiography of the problem / by Mykola Melnyk ; translated by Yaroslav Prykhodko.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022] | Series: East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, 1872-8103 ; volume 79 | Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021061750 (print) | LCCN 2021061751 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004280465 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004505223 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Turkic peoples—Byzantine Empire. | Pecheneg (Turkic people)—History—To 1500. | Nomads—Europe, Eastern—History—To 1500. | Pecheneg (Turkic people—Historiography. | Nomads—Europe, Eastern—Historiography. | Byzantine Empire—History—527-1081. | Byzantine Empire—History—1081-1453. | Byzantine Empire—Ethnic relations. | Byzantine Empire—Historiography.
Classification: LCC DF542.4.T87 M45 2022 (print) | LCC DF542.4.T87 (ebook) | DDC 949.500494/35—dc23/eng/20220128
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