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Book SynopsisThe collection Migration, Integration and Connectivity on the Southeastern Frontier of the Carolingian Empire offers insights into the Carolingian southeastern frontier-zone from historical, art-historical and archaeological perspectives. Chapters in this volume discuss the significance of the early medieval period for scholarly and public discourses in the Western Balkans and Central Europe, and the transfer of knowledge between local scholarship and macro-narratives of Mediterranean and Western history. Other essays explore the ways local communities around the Adriatic (Istria, Dalmatia, Dalmatian hinterland, southern Pannonia) established and maintained social networks and integrated foreign cultural templates into their existing cultural habitus. Contributors are Mladen Ančić, Ivan Basić, Goran Bilogrivić, Neven Budak, Florin Curta, Danijel Dzino, Krešimir Filipec, Richard Hodges, Nikola Jakšić, Miljenko Jurković, Ante Milošević, Marko Petrak, Peter Štih, Trpimir Vedriš.
Trade Review"A book that serves as a stimulating introduction to a complicated part of European history. [...] This volume makes readers want to study the region in greater detail. Reading these articles will probably help instill a sense of self-confidence in the readers to tackle the available sources anew, or even attempt a comparative venture, for instance by measuring these conclusions against observations about identity formation in other frontier zones like Frisia, Catalonia, or Bretagne: also regions primarily described by enemies and overlords, but interpreted by "insiders". This may be the biggest achievement of this book: it shows that the "Southeastern Frontier of the Carolingian Empire" should be seen not as an Other, but as an equal". Rutger Kramer, in The Medieval Review, April 2021. You can access the full review here>.
Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures Notes on Contributors 1 A View from the Carolingian Frontier Zone Danijel Dzino, Ante Milošević and Trpimir Vedriš Part 1: Historiography 2 From Byzantium to the West: ‘Croats and Carolingians’ as a Paradigm-Change in the Research of Early Medieval Dalmatia Danijel Dzino 3 Carolingian Renaissance or Renaissance of the 9th Century on the Eastern Adriatic? Neven Budak Part 2: Migrations 4 Migration or Transformation: The Roots of the Early Medieval Croatian Polity Mladen Ančić 5 The Products of the ‘Tetgis Style’ from the Eastern Adriatic Hinterland Ante Milošević 6 Carolingian Weapons and the Problem of Croat Migration and Ethnogenesis Goran Bilogrivić Part 3: Integration 7 Integration on the Fringes of the Frankish Empire. The Case of the Carantanians and their Neighbours Peter Štih 8 Istria under the Carolingian Rule Miljenko Jurković 9 The Collapse and Integration into the Empire: Carolingian-Age Lower Pannonia in the Material Record Krešimir Filipec 10 Imperium and Regnum in Gottschalk’s Description of Dalmatia Ivan Basić Part 4: Networks 11 Liber Methodius between the Byzantium and the West: Traces of the Oldest Slavonic Legal Collection in Medieval Croatia Marko Petrak 12 The Installation of the Patron Saints of Zadar as a Result of Carolingian Adriatic Politics Nikola Jakšić 13 Church, Churchyard, and Children in the Early Medieval Balkans: A Comparative Perspective Florin Curta 14 Trade and Culture Process at a 9th-Century Mediterranean Monastic Statelet: San Vincenzo al Volturno Richard Hodges 15 Afterword. ‘Croats and Carolingians’: Triumph of a New Historiographic Paradigm or Ideologically Charged Project? Trpimir Vedriš Bibliography Index
