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The great migrations in the east and south east of Europe from the ninth to the thirteenth century

Title

The great migrations in the east and south east of Europe from the ninth to the thirteenth century / Victor Spinei ; translated from the Romanian by Dana Bădulescu.

Author

Spinei, Victor, 1943-

Publication

Amsterdam : Adolf M. Hakkert, 2022.
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Additional Authors

Bădulescu, Dana, 1967-

Description

880 pages, two unnumbered pages : illustrations, facsimiles, maps; 25 cm

Summary

Human migrations are a universal phenomenon that has marked the evolution of humankind from its genesis until the present day, its forms varying in time and space. The constant spread of the human element all over the world, in its tenacious efforts to survive and prosper, is its most outstanding outcome. Unlike in Western Europe, where great migrations ended at the beginning of the first millennium A.D., in Eastern Europe they continued with uneven intensity until the first centuries of the next millennium. These massive displacements of populations, being the peak but also the waning moment of a process that had started long before it gained transcontinental dimensions, had important effects upon all the mechanisms of human life in the affected area, reflected in significant disturbances of the ethnic and demographic spectrum, of the economic evolution, of the social and political structures, of the cultural sphere, of the religious systems, etc. The text submitted to the attention of our potential readers deals only with the last segment of the great migrations in the Ponto-Caspian area, the low and middle basin of the Danube and the Balkan Peninsula, over a period of approximately five centuries; this was important not only in the context of Middle Ages, but also in the long term consequences, which can be traced even today in the ethnic, demographic and cultural configurations of Eastern and Central Europe.

Uniform Title

Marile migraţii din estul şi sud-estul Europei. English

Alternative Title

Marile migraţii din estul şi sud-estul Europei.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Note

Revised English translation of: Marile migrații din estul și sud-estul Europei : în secolele IX-XIII. Iași : Institutul European, 1999.
Includes errata on page 881.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 736-750) and index.

Language (note)

Translated from the Romanian.

Contents

1. The Hungarians -- Name and ethnic structure -- Economy and way of life -- Social and political organization -- Religious beliefs and practices -- Political evolution -- Living in the Ponto-Caspian space -- The settlement in the middle basin of the Danube and the offensive campaign against the Transylvanian regions -- The flux of invasions in the west and south east of Europe -- 2. The Pechenegs -- Name and ethnic structure -- Economy and way of life -- Social and political organization -- Religious beliefs and practices -- Political evolution -- The emergence in the Ponto-Caspian steppes and in the surrounding area -- Exodus to the Byzantine empire -- The last manifestations on the political stage -- 3. The Uzes -- Name and ethnic structure -- Economy and way of life -- Social and political organization -- Religious beliefs and practices -- Political evolution -- The separation from the Turkic conglomerate. The Seljuk branch of the Uzes -- The stay in Eastern Europe and the migration to the Balkan peninsula -- 4. The Cumans -- Name and ethnic structure -- Economy and way of life -- Social and political organization -- Religious beliefs and practices -- Political evolution -- The emigration from Central Asia and the firm positions gained in Eastern Europe -- The peak of the Cumans' political actions in the twelfth century -- The decline in the decades before the great Mongol invasion -- The avatars of the communities under the domination of the Golden Horde and the neighboring states -- 5. The Mongols -- Name and ethnic structure -- Economy and way of life -- Social and political organization -- Religious beliefs and practices -- Political evolution -- The ethnic formation and unification of the Mongol tribes -- The formation of Chingiz-Khan's empire -- The expansion in Eastern Europe -- The campaign in Central Europe -- The direct consequences of the Great Invasion of 1236-1242 -- 6. General notes with regard to the equestrian nomadism in the west of Eurasia.

ISBN

9789025613471
9025613470

OCLC

on1371588327
1371588327
SCSB-14605864

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries