Edinburgh History of the Greeks, c. 500 to 1050 The Early Middle Ages
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Florin Curta is Waldo W. Neikirk Professor of Medieval History and Archaeology at the University of Florida. He is the author of the Making of the Slavs. History and Archaeology of the Lower Danube Region, c. 500-700 (Cambridge University Press, 2001), which won the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize of the American Historical Association in 2003. Curta also wrote Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, ca. 500-1250 (Cambridge University Press, 2006), and edited three collections of studies dedicated to such diverse themes as Eastern and East Central Europe in the early Middle Ages; barriers, borders, and ethnogenesis in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages; nomads in Eastern Europe between the sixth and the twelfth century. He is the editor-in-chief of the Brill series "Eastern and East Central Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450" and member of Medieval Academy of America Publication Advisory Board and the Advisory Board of the Cursor Mundi series of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.This very learned and detailed investigation represents an advance in the field… While the paucity of written (literary and epigraphic) sources is one challenge, Curta introduces much valuable numismatic and sigillographic evidence ... There is no comparable book.
- Walter E. Kaegi, University of Chicago, American Historical Review
This very learned and detailed investigation represents an advance in the field… While the paucity of written (literary and epigraphic) sources is one challenge, Curta introduces much valuable numismatic and sigillographic evidence … There is no comparable book.
- Walter E. Kaegi, University of Chicago, American Historical Review
An excellent and useful work. Overall, this is a nuanced and useful discussion of the social and economic history of medieval Greece. The work should be praised especially for its nuanced approach to the numismatic evidence and for its incorporation of evidence from saints' lives.
- Jason Fossella, Saint Louis University, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
This is a valuable book, both as a work of reference and as a contribution to ongoing debates surrounding what remains one of the least understood areas of medieval Europe.
- Will Bowden, University of Nittingham, Medieval Archaeology
A highly informative collection of both archaeological and literary data. Curta presents the reader with detailed descriptions of fortified sites, lavish grave burials and coin hoards together with literary evidence. All is framed in the wider contexts of Europe and the Mediterranean… Due to his striking knowledge of numismatic evidence, sigillography, funerary archaeology and Quellenkritik, Curta is very generous with his reader, but he also demands a lot… The significance of this book will be evident. To the attentive reader the work will be an invaluable tool for further researches.
- Francesco Borri, Sehepunkte
Curta applies his considerable archaeological expertise and historical acumen to questions of ethnic identity, migrations and cultural and economic change in the earlier middle ages. While focusing on Greece, he sets developments within the broader Balkan context, challenging assumptions about Byzantium's 'Dark Age' and offering an important and original synthesis.
- Jonathan Shepard, retired Lecturer in History, University of Cambridge,