Florin Curta . The Edinburgh History of the Greeks, c. 500 to 1050: The Early Middle Ages . (The Edinburgh History of the Greeks.) Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 2011. Pp. vii, 365. $135.00.
Walter Emil Kaegi
This very learned and detailed investigation represents an advance in the field. Florin Curta has undertaken ambitious urgently needed study of a difficult controversial subject historical era: “the emergence economic social structures Greece between c. 500 1050” (p. 8), his book reflects wide-ranging reading reflection. written extensively about ethnicity demographic change late antique medieval southeastern Europe, he knows larger historical, archaeological, numismatic contexts. While paucity (literary epigraphic) sources is one challenge, introduces much valuable sigillographic evidence, chosen chronological span reasonable one. There are, however, some questions other basics. The resulting synthesis information Greeks what today's mainland nearby islands gives little attention to Anatolia. Who were Greeks, what...
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