Includes revisions of papers presented at the International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo in 2000 and 2001
Includes bibliographical references and index
I: Economic and social structures -- 1. Ways of life in eastern and western Europe during the early Middle Ages: which was way "normal"? / Joachim Henning -- 2. Silent centuries: the society and economy of the northwestern slavs / Paul M. Barford -- 3. Salt trade and warfare: the rise of the Romanian-Slavic military organization in early medieval Transylvania / Alexandru Madgearu -- 4. Ladoga, Ryurik's stronghold, and Novgorod: fortifications and power in early medieval Russia / Nikolai I. Petrov -- II: The rise of the state -- 5. Early state formation in east central Europe / Przemysław Urbańczyk -- 6. Ruler and political ideology in Pax Nomadica: early medieval Bulgaria and the Uighur Qaganate / Tsvetelin Stepanov -- 7. Unknown revolution: archaeology and the beginnings of the Polish state / Andrzej Buko -- III: Conversion -- 8. Before Cyril and Methodius: Christianity and Barbarians beyond the sixth- and seventh-century Danube frontier / Florin Curta -- 9. Creating Khazar identity through coins: the special issue Dirhams of 837/8 / Roman K. Kovalev -- 10. Conversions and regimes compared: the Rus' and the Poles, ca. 1000 / Jonathan Shepard -- 11. Missions, conversions, and power legitimization in east central Europe at the turn of the first millennium / Márta Font -- The history and archaeology of early medieval eastern and east central Europe (ca. 500-1000): a bibliography / Florin Curta
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East Central and Eastern Europe in the Early Middle Ages