Byzantium and the Pechenegs

Mykola Melnyk, Ph.D. (2007), the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, served as an associate professor at that university, and is currently an independent scholar. He has published many articles on historiography and the history of scholarship, and co-authored The History of Byzantium: Introduction to Byzantinology (Lviv, 2011).

Contents


Acknowledgements


Abbreviations





Introduction





1 Byzantium and the Pechenegs


 Vasilievskiĭ to Moravcsik


 1 Byzantium, the Pechenegs, and the Black Sea Straits


 2 Byzantium and the Nomads of the North Pontic Steppes in European Historiography, Mid-19th to Mid-20th Centuries





2 “Poised Perception”


 Trans-Danubian Turks in the Historiography of the Balkan-Danubian Countries


 1 Preconditions


 2 The Pechenegs and Cumans and Their Relations with Byzantium in Hungarian Historiography, Mid-20th to Early 21st Centuries


 3 Romanian Historiography


 4 Bulgarian Historiography


 5 Historiography of Other Countries of the Region





3 Eastern European Historiography since 1945


 1 Soviet and Post-Soviet Archaeology


 2 Soviet and Post-Soviet Medieval Studies


 3 Oriental Studies





4 International Byzantine and Oriental Studies


 1 Congresses of Byzantine Studies


 2 Publication of Major Sources


 3 Visions


 4 Specific Problems in the History of Byzantium’s Relations with Steppe Dwellers and Attempts to Solve Them


 5 Oriental Studies





Conclusions


 1 Periodization


 2 Source Base and Methodology


 3 Byzantium, Nomads, and National Historiographies


 4 Byzantine-Nomadic Relations and World Byzantine and Oriental Studies


Selected Bibliography


Index of Geographic and Ethnic Names


Index of Persons 000


Index of Modern Authors 000