The other Europe in the Middle Ages : Avars, Bulgars, Khazars, and Cumans / edited by Florin Curta with the assistance of Roman Kovalev. - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008. - x, 492 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. - East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, v. 2 1872-8103 ; . - East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450 v. 2. .

"Most papers ... were originally presented in three special sessions at the 40th and 42nd editions of the International Congress on Medieval Studies held at Kalamazoo in 2005 and 2007."--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [457]-482) and index.

Conflict and coexistence : the local population of the Carpathian Basin under Avar rule (sixth to seventh century) / Tivadar Vida -- Avar chronology revisited, and the question of ethnicity in the Avar qaganate / Peter Stadler -- New remarks on the flow of Byzantine coins in Avaria and Walachia during the second half of the seventh century / Péter Somogyi -- Bulgars in the Lower Danube region : a survey of the archaeological evidence and of the state of current research / Uwe Fiedler -- Avar-age metalworking technologies in the Carpathian Basin (sixth to eighth century) / Orsolya Heinrich-Tamaska -- Two worlds, one hoard : what do metal finds from the foreststeppe belt speak about? / Bartłomiej Szymon-Szmoniewski -- The earliest Avar-age stirrups, or the "stirrup controversy" revisited / Florin Curta -- A note on the "Hungarian sabers" of medieval Bulgaria / Valeri Iotov -- Danube Bulgaria and Khazaria as part of the Byzantine oikoumene / Veselina Vachkova -- From 'steppe' to Christian empire and back : Bulgaria between 800 and 1100 / Tsvetelin Stepanov -- A broken mirror : the Kipçak world in the thirteenth century / Dimitri Korobeinikov -- The Cuman bishopric-genesis and evolution / Victor Spinei.

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