Introductory Essay: Migration—Travel—Commerce—Cultural Transfer. The Complex Connections Byzantium-Kiev-Novgorod-Varangian Lands, 6–14th Century
Dirk Hoerder
This paper uses the migration of Scandinavian groups towards Eastern Europe and establishment connections to Byzantium as case study for illustration diversity medieval movements. Various motives socio-economic frameworks are described. Equally, enduring effects human mobility in long term well short dynamics networks spatial axes analysed.
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