The 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.
Author(s): Danijel Dzino, Ante Milošević, Trpimir Vedriš (eds.)
Series: East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, 50
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2018
Language: English
Pages: XX+366
Preface ix
List of Figures and Tables x
List of Abbreviations xiii
Notes on Contributors xv
1. A View from the Carolingian Frontier Zone / Danijel Dzino, Ante Milošević and Trpimir Vedriš 1
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 17
3. Carolingian Renaissance or Renaissance of the 9th Century on the Eastern Adriatic? / Neven Budak 32
PART 2. Migrations
4. Migration or Transformation: The Roots of the Early Medieval Croatian Polity / Mladen Ančić 43
5. The Products of the "Tetgis Style" from the Eastern Adriatic Hinterland / Ante Milošević 63
6. Carolingian Weapons and the Problem of Croat Migration and Ethnogenesis / Goran Bilogrivić 86
PART 3. Integration
7. Integration on the Fringes of the Frankish Empire: The Case of the Carantanians and their Neighbours / Peter Štih 103
8. Istria under the Carolingian Rule / Miljenko Jurković 123
9. The Collapse and Integration into the Empire: Carolingian-Age Lower Pannonia in the Material Record / Krešimir Filipec 153
10. "Imperium" and "Regnum" in Gottschalk's Description of Dalmatia / Ivan Basić 170
PART 4. Networks
11. "Liber Methodius" between the Byzantium and the West: Traces of the Oldest Slavonic Legal Collection in Medieval Croatia / Marko Petrak 213
12. The Installation of the Patron Saints of Zadar as a Result of Carolingian Adriatic Politics / Nikola Jakšić 225
13. Church, Churchyard, and Children in the Early Medieval Balkans: A Comparative Perspective / Florin Curta 245
14. Trade and Culture Process at a 9th-Century Mediterranean Monastic Statelet: San Vincenzo al Volturno / Richard Hodges 268
Afterword: "Croats and Carolingians": Triumph of a New Historiographic Paradigm or Ideologically Charged Project? / Trpimir Vedriš 287
Bibliography 299
Index 359
