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Byzantium and the Pechenegs
The Historiography of the Problem
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This book traces 150 yearsâ worth of scholarly interpretations of relations between Byzantium and various North Pontic nomads, with particular attention to how colonialist or national aspirations often triggered, hampered, biased, or otherwise influenced these interpretations. Original in its interdisciplinary approach, Mykola Melnykâs book highlights an overlooked topic: the history of non-historic peoples. Going beyond the well-studied written sources for nomadic history, the author incorporates insights provided by archaeology, linguistics, and the natural sciences, bringing forth promising avenues of research into the subject of nomadic cultures in the medieval world.
Mykola Melnyk, Ph.D. (2007), the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, served as an associate professor at that university, and is currently an independent scholar. He has published many articles on historiography and the history of scholarship, and co-authored The History of Byzantium: Introduction to Byzantinology (Lviv, 2011).
Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
1 Byzantium and the Pechenegs
âVasilievskiÄ to Moravcsik
â1âByzantium, the Pechenegs, and the Black Sea Straits
â2âByzantium and the Nomads of the North Pontic Steppes in European Historiography, Mid-19th to Mid-20th Centuries
2 âPoised Perceptionâ
âTrans-Danubian Turks in the Historiography of the Balkan-Danubian Countries
â1âPreconditions
â2âThe Pechenegs and Cumans and Their Relations with Byzantium in Hungarian Historiography, Mid-20th to Early 21st Centuries
â3âRomanian Historiography
â4âBulgarian Historiography
â5âHistoriography of Other Countries of the Region
3 Eastern European Historiography since 1945
â1âSoviet and Post-Soviet Archaeology
â2âSoviet and Post-Soviet Medieval Studies
â3âOriental Studies
4 International Byzantine and Oriental Studies
â1âCongresses of Byzantine Studies
â2âPublication of Major Sources
â3âVisions
â4âSpecific Problems in the History of Byzantiumâs Relations with Steppe Dwellers and Attempts to Solve Them
â5âOriental Studies
Conclusions
â1âPeriodization
â2âSource Base and Methodology
â3âByzantium, Nomads, and National Historiographies
â4âByzantine-Nomadic Relations and World Byzantine and Oriental Studies
Selected Bibliography
Index of Geographic and Ethnic Names
Index of Personsâ000
Index of Modern Authorsâ000
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
1 Byzantium and the Pechenegs
âVasilievskiÄ to Moravcsik
â1âByzantium, the Pechenegs, and the Black Sea Straits
â2âByzantium and the Nomads of the North Pontic Steppes in European Historiography, Mid-19th to Mid-20th Centuries
2 âPoised Perceptionâ
âTrans-Danubian Turks in the Historiography of the Balkan-Danubian Countries
â1âPreconditions
â2âThe Pechenegs and Cumans and Their Relations with Byzantium in Hungarian Historiography, Mid-20th to Early 21st Centuries
â3âRomanian Historiography
â4âBulgarian Historiography
â5âHistoriography of Other Countries of the Region
3 Eastern European Historiography since 1945
â1âSoviet and Post-Soviet Archaeology
â2âSoviet and Post-Soviet Medieval Studies
â3âOriental Studies
4 International Byzantine and Oriental Studies
â1âCongresses of Byzantine Studies
â2âPublication of Major Sources
â3âVisions
â4âSpecific Problems in the History of Byzantiumâs Relations with Steppe Dwellers and Attempts to Solve Them
â5âOriental Studies
Conclusions
â1âPeriodization
â2âSource Base and Methodology
â3âByzantium, Nomads, and National Historiographies
â4âByzantine-Nomadic Relations and World Byzantine and Oriental Studies
Selected Bibliography
Index of Geographic and Ethnic Names
Index of Personsâ000
Index of Modern Authorsâ000
The book is addressed to all interested in Byzantine, medieval, and Turkic studies, the history of south-eastern Europe, and historiography and the history of scholarship from the 19th to the 21st centuries.