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Book SynopsisIn Khazaria in the Ninth and the Tenth Centuries Boris Zhivkov offers a new view on Khazaria by scrutinizing the different visions offered by recent scholarship. The paucity of written sources has made it necessary to turn to additional information about the steppe states in this period, and to analyze exceptional cases not directly related to the Khazars. In re-examining the Khazars, he thus uses not only the known documentary sources and archaeological finds but also what we know from history of religions (comparative mythology), history of art, structural anthropology and folklore studies. In this way the book draws together a synthesis of conclusions, information and theory.
Table of ContentsContents Preface vii Russian/Bulgarian/Ukrainian Transliteration xiv Introduction 1 Maps 8 1 The Ideology of the Ninth and Tenth Centuries: The Difficult Reconciliation of Steppe Traditions with Judaic Monotheism 17 2 The Pechenegs in Khazar History: The Late Ninth and Tenth Centuries 127 3 Khazaria and International Trade in Eastern Europe in the Late Ninth and Tenth Centuries 147 4 The Khazar Economy: Economic Integration or Disintegration? 171 5 The “Internal” Ethnic Communities in Khazaria 221 Conclusion 268 Bibliography 285 Index 317
