Ultimo aggiornamento: 30 September 2022

Obolensky D.

The Byzantine Commonwealth

Eastern Europe, 500-1453

Praeger Publishers London 1971

Table of Contents

Frontmatter

FOREWORD 

INTRODUCTION 

1. The Geographical Setting 
2. Barbarians in the Balkans 
3. The Balkans in the Ninth Century: the Byzantine Recovery 
4. The Balkans in the Tenth Century: the Crisis of Imperialism 
5. Byzantium and East‐Central Europe 
6. The Black Sea Coast, the Eurasian Steppe and Russia
7. The Bonds of the Commonwealth
8. Byzantium and Eastern Europe in the Late Middle Ages
9. Factors in Cultural Diffusion 
10. Religion and Law 
11. Literature and Art 

EPILOGUE 

NOTES 

BIBLIOGRAPHY 

INDEX