Medievalists.net » Balkans http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 19:35:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Investigating a Murder: The Case of the Justinianic Plague in Scythia Minor http://www.medievalists.net/2015/08/09/investigating-a-murder-the-case-of-the-justinianic-plague-in-scythia-minor/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/08/09/investigating-a-murder-the-case-of-the-justinianic-plague-in-scythia-minor/#comments Sun, 09 Aug 2015 17:46:27 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=60295 The study beforehand applies a logical scheme of analysis over a possible presence of the Justinianic plague in the province of Scythia Minor.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/08/09/investigating-a-murder-the-case-of-the-justinianic-plague-in-scythia-minor/feed/ 0 Visual material evidence of Viking presence in the Balkans http://www.medievalists.net/2015/08/06/visual-material-evidence-of-viking-presence-in-the-balkans/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/08/06/visual-material-evidence-of-viking-presence-in-the-balkans/#comments Thu, 06 Aug 2015 20:34:34 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=60216 The Swedish Vikings, who are known as 'Varangians' mostly in Byzantine sources, were present in the Balkans. They first carried out their military and trading campaigns from Scandinavia to the territories of European Russia, Ukraine and reached the Balkans.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/08/06/visual-material-evidence-of-viking-presence-in-the-balkans/feed/ 0 Lasting Falls and Wishful Recoveries: Crusading in the Black Sea Region after the Fall of Constantinople http://www.medievalists.net/2015/04/21/lasting-falls-and-wishful-recoveries-crusading-in-the-black-sea-region-after-the-fall-of-constantinople/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/04/21/lasting-falls-and-wishful-recoveries-crusading-in-the-black-sea-region-after-the-fall-of-constantinople/#comments Wed, 22 Apr 2015 03:52:47 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=57790 This paper examines the Black Sea question in the second half of the 15th century, with special emphasis on crusading and religious questions.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/04/21/lasting-falls-and-wishful-recoveries-crusading-in-the-black-sea-region-after-the-fall-of-constantinople/feed/ 0 Banditry and the Clash of Powers in 14th-Century Thrace: Momcilo and his Fragmented Memory http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/07/banditry-clash-powers-14th-century-thrace-momcilo-fragmented-memory/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/07/banditry-clash-powers-14th-century-thrace-momcilo-fragmented-memory/#comments Mon, 08 Sep 2014 01:54:59 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=52418 In the 14th century, a time of civil wars, religious and dynastic strifes, epidemics, natural disasters and miserable living conditions for the wider strata in the cities and the countryside that increased migratory movements, banditry, an indigenous phenomenon in the Balkan mountainous regions, intermingled with the intensified political struggles.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/07/banditry-clash-powers-14th-century-thrace-momcilo-fragmented-memory/feed/ 0 Hungary’s Conversion to Christianity: The Establishment of Hungarian Statehood and its Consequences to the Thirteenth Century http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/01/hungarys-conversion-christianity-establishment-hungarian-statehood-consequences-thirteenth-century/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/01/hungarys-conversion-christianity-establishment-hungarian-statehood-consequences-thirteenth-century/#comments Mon, 01 Sep 2014 10:21:06 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=52242 The Carpathian Basin occupies a peculiar place in history. It was the ground where Roman-Germanic world met that of the Slavs and mounted nomad peoples, where no group had achieved sustained unity before the state of Hungary was founded.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/01/hungarys-conversion-christianity-establishment-hungarian-statehood-consequences-thirteenth-century/feed/ 0 Late Antique and Early Byzantine fortifications in Bosnia and Herzegovina http://www.medievalists.net/2013/04/15/late-antique-and-early-byzantine-fortifications-in-bosnia-and-herzegovina/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/04/15/late-antique-and-early-byzantine-fortifications-in-bosnia-and-herzegovina/#comments Mon, 15 Apr 2013 16:30:41 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=40533 Geographically, the province of Dalmatia can be divided into two zones: the coastal and the mountainous regions.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/04/15/late-antique-and-early-byzantine-fortifications-in-bosnia-and-herzegovina/feed/ 0 The Image of Early Medieval Barbaroi in Contemporary Written Sources and Modern Scholarship: the Balkan Perspective http://www.medievalists.net/2013/04/03/the-image-of-early-medieval-barbaroi-in-contemporary-written-sources-and-modern-scholarship-the-balkan-perspective/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/04/03/the-image-of-early-medieval-barbaroi-in-contemporary-written-sources-and-modern-scholarship-the-balkan-perspective/#comments Wed, 03 Apr 2013 23:11:48 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=40267 This article gives a review on the accounts of the contemporary authors held as authorities on the history of the barbarian tribes, which combined with the survey of the material evidence, retrieved with archaeological excavations.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/04/03/the-image-of-early-medieval-barbaroi-in-contemporary-written-sources-and-modern-scholarship-the-balkan-perspective/feed/ 0 Multi-confessionalism in Medieval and Ottoman Bosnia-Herzegovina http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/25/multi-confessionalism-in-medieval-and-ottoman-bosnia-herzegovina/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/25/multi-confessionalism-in-medieval-and-ottoman-bosnia-herzegovina/#comments Mon, 25 Mar 2013 06:25:59 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=40096 By the fifth century CE, however, the Western Empire was unraveling, and Bosnia, the easternmost outpost of Latin jurisdiction, was being engulfed by throngs of barbarian Slavs.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/25/multi-confessionalism-in-medieval-and-ottoman-bosnia-herzegovina/feed/ 0 Barbarians to the Balkans http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/17/barbarians-to-the-balkans/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/17/barbarians-to-the-balkans/#comments Sun, 17 Mar 2013 16:15:17 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=39912 In the High Middle Ages, in a now clearly articulated opposition between the West and the East, Europe and the Balkans began to emerge and be fixed as distinct and hostile entities. In Crusading chronicles, the Balkan lands lay on the way from Europe to the Holy Land. In the late twelfth and in the thirteenth centuries, the conventional separation line between the civilized and barbarian world, identical with the river Danube, began to break down and the barbarians came to be located in the Balkans.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/17/barbarians-to-the-balkans/feed/ 0 Why There May Have Been Contacts between Slovenes and Jews before 1000 A.D. http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/16/why-there-may-have-been-contacts-between-slovenes-and-jews-before-1000-a-d/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/16/why-there-may-have-been-contacts-between-slovenes-and-jews-before-1000-a-d/#comments Sat, 16 Mar 2013 23:19:43 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=39887 The first documented evidence of a Jewish presence in Slovenia dates from the 13th century, when Yiddish- and Italian-speaking Jews migrated south from Austria to Maribor and Celje, and east from Italy into Ljubljana. This is a good three centuries after the first mention of Jews in the Austrian lands.

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