Slavs in the Making
History, Linguistics, and Archaeology in Eastern Europe (ca. 500 – ca. 700)
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 29 April 2022
- ISBN 9780367548353
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages366 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 680 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 54 Illustrations, black & white; 54 Halftones, black & white 652
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Short description:
Slavs in the Making addresses the question of migration in the archaeology of early medieval Eastern Europe. It will appeal to scholars and students interested in medieval history, migration, and the history of Eastern and Central Europe.
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Slavs in the Making takes a fresh look at archaeological evidence from parts of Slavic-speaking Europe north of the Lower Danube, including the present-day territories of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia.
Nothing is known about what the inhabitants of those remote lands called themselves during the sixth century, or whether they spoke a Slavic language. The book engages critically with the archaeological evidence from these regions, and questions its association with the "Slavs" that has often been taken for granted. It also deals with the linguistic evidence—primarily names of rivers and other bodies of water—that has been used to identify the primordial homeland of the Slavs, and from which their migration towards the Lower Danube is believed to have started. It is precisely in this area that sociolinguistics can offer a serious alternative to the language tree model currently favoured in linguistic paleontology. The question of how best to explain the spread of Slavic remains a controversial issue. This book attempts to provide an answer, and not just a critique of the method of linguistic paleontology upon which the theory of the Slavic migration and homeland relies.
The book proposes a model of interpretation that builds upon the idea that (Common) Slavic cannot possibly be the result of Slavic migration. It addresses the question of migration in the archaeology of early medieval Eastern Europe, and makes a strong case for a more nuanced interpretation of the archaeological evidence of mobility. It will appeal to scholars and students interested in medieval history, migration, and the history of Eastern and Central Europe.
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Introduction 1. Theoretical framework 2. Approaching the early Slavs 3. Written sources 4. The Carpathian Basin 5. The East German and Czech lands 6. Poland 7. Western (Right-Bank) Ukraine and Belarus 8. Eastern (Left-Bank) Ukraine and western Russia 9. Migration 10. Language 11. Ethnicity Conclusion
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