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Byzantium's Balkan frontier: a political study of the Northern Balkans, 900-1204
Paul Stephenson
Year: 2008, c2000.
Publisher:  Cambridge University Press. 
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Title Page
Copyright and Permissions
Maps and figures
Preface
A note on citation and transliteration
Abbreviations
Introduction
MAPS AND FRONTIERS
CONTENTS AND CONTEXTS
ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE
CHAPTER ONE: Bulgaria and beyond: the Northern Balkans (c. 900–963)
SYMEON'S BULGARIA, 894–927
PETER'S BULGARIA, 927–967
THE DE ADMINISTRANDO IMPERIO
BEYOND BULGARIA: THE SERBS
THE CROATS AND ROMANI
THE PECHENEGS
THE RUS
THE DE CERIMONIIS: TAXIS AND HIERARCHY
THE MAGYARS
BEYOND BULGARIA
CHAPTER TWO: The Byzantine occupation of Bulgaria (963–1025)
NICEPHORUS II PHOCAS' NORTHERN POLICY
JOHN I TZIMISCES AND THE RESTORATION OF THE DANUBE FRONTIER
THE REORGANIZATION OF NORTHERN BULGARIA, 971–976
THE REVOLT OF THE COMETOPULI
BASIL II AND BULGARIA
BASIL 'THE PEACEMAKER'?
BASIL THE 'BULGAR-SLAYER'?
THE RHETORIC AND REALITY OF BASIL'S BULGARIAN WARS
A NEW 'BULGARIA'
CHAPTER THREE: Northern nomads (1025–1100)
FRONTIER POLICY IN PARISTRION AFTER BASIL II
EMPORIA ON THE LOWER DANUBE: INCENTIVES TO TRADE
THE PECHENEG WARS, 1046–1053
PECHENEGS IN PARISTRION 1053–1072
THE LOSS OF PARADOUNAVON
THE RECOVERY OF PARADOUNAVON
ALEXIUS' REORGANIZATION OF PARADOUNAVON
PARADOUNAVON IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY
FRONTIERS, SCYTHIANS AND SEMI-BARBARIANS
THE FRONTIER AND THE IMPERIAL IMAGE, 1025–1100
CONCLUSIONS
CHAPTER FOUR: Southern Slavs (1025–1100)
BYZANTINE AUTHORITY IN THE SLAVIC PERIPHERY AFTER 1025
FOUR REBELLIONS, 1040–1042
BULGARIA, 1043–1071
DUKLJA, 1043–1071
TURMOIL IN THE WESTERN BALKANS AFTER 1071
THE BYZANTINE RECOVERY
THEOPHYLACT OF OHRID IN BULGARIA
THEOPHYLACT OF OHRID ON BULGARIA: THE BARBAROS OIKOUMENE
CONCLUSIONS
CHAPTER FIVE: The rise of the west, I: Normans and Crusaders (1081–1118)
THE NORMANS IN SOUTHERN ITALY, 1059–1081
DYRRACHIUM IN THE LATER ELEVENTH CENTURY
THE NORMAN INVASION OF DYRRACHIUM IN 1081
THE VENETIAN ALLIANCE
NORMANS IN THE WESTERN BALKANS, 1082–1084
THE FIRST CRUSADE
BOHEMOND RETURNS, 1104–1108
DYRRACHIUM IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY
CONCLUSIONS
CHAPTER SIX: The rise of the west, II: Hungarians and Venetians (1100–1143)
HUNGARY'S BORDER WITH BYZANTIUM IN THE LATER ELEVENTH CENTURY
TRADE AND THE MARITIME CITIES IN DALMATIA
THE HUNGARIAN INVASION OF DALMATIA
THE VENETIAN RESPONSE
JOHN II COMNENUS AND DALMATIA
JOHN II COMNENUS AND THE HUNGARIANS
CHAPTER SEVEN: Manuel I Comnenus confronts the West (1143–1156)
MANUEL'S MARRIAGE TO BERTHA OF SULZBACH
THE PASSAGE OF THE SECOND CRUSADE THROUGH THE NORTHERN BALKANS
THE NORMAN ASSAULT AND THE TREATY OF THESSALONICA, 1147–1148
THE EARLY YEARS OF THE REIGN OF MANUEL I COMNENUS: RAŠKA
THE EARLY YEARS OF THE REIGN OF MANUEL I COMNENUS: DALMATIA
THE EARLY YEARS OF THE REIGN OF MANUEL I COMNENUS: SIRMIUM
THE RHETORIC OF THE HUNGARIAN CONFLICTS, 1150–1155
1143–1156: A CHANGE IN PRIORITIES
CHAPTER EIGHT: Advancing the frontier: the annexation of Sirmium and Dalmatia (1156–1180)
REFORTIFYING THE FRONTIER: BELGRADE AND BRANIČEVO
MANUEL I COMNENUS AND THE SERBS OF RAŠKA
FRANGOCHORION AND THE HUNGARIAN ROYAL SUCCESSION
THE ANNEXATION OF SIRMIUM AND DALMATIA
'PERSONAL UNION' AND 'FEUDAL SUBJECTION'
THE END OF THE CONFLICTS WITH HUNGARY, 1166–1167
BYZANTINE AUTHORITY IN DALMATIA, 1166–1180
WHAT WAS MANUEL'S INTEREST IN DALMATIA?
MANUEL'S LAST YEARS: RAŠKA AND HUNGARY
SERBS, HUNGARIANS AND THE 'HIERARCHY OF STATES' AFTER 1160
MISGUIDED IMPERIALISM?
CHAPTER NINE: Casting off the 'Byzantine Yoke' (1180–1204)
POLITICAL CULTURE AND FACTION IN CONSTANTINOPLE, 1180–1204
REGIONAL SEPARATISM
THE HUNGARIAN ANNEXATION OF DALMATIA AND SIRMIUM, 1180–1185
THE NORMAN INVASION, 1185–1186
THE VLACH-BULGAR REBELLION, 1185–1187
THE PASSAGE OF THE THIRD CRUSADE THROUGH THE NORTHERN BALKANS
SERBS, VLACHS AND BULGARS, 1190–1196
BYZANTIUM'S DECLINING PRESTIGE AND RETREATING FRONTIERS, 1196–1200
RECOGNITION FOR THE 'SECOND BULGARIAN EMPIRE'
A NOTE ON THE FOURTH CRUSADE
THE 'BYZANTINE YOKE'
Conclusions
Notes
Introduction
CHAPTER ONE: Bulgaria and beyond: the Northern Balkans (c. 900–963)
CHAPTER TWO: The Byzantine occupation of Bulgaria (963–1025)
CHAPTER THREE: Northern nomads (1025–1100)
CHAPTER FOUR: Southern Slavs (1025–1100)
CHAPTER FIVE: The rise of the west, I: Normans and Crusaders (1081–1118)
CHAPTER SIX: The rise of the west, II: Hungarians and Venetians (1100–1143)
CHAPTER SEVEN: Manuel I Comnenus confronts the West (1143–1156)
CHAPTER EIGHT: Advancing the frontier: the annexation of Sirmium and Dalmatia (1156–1180)
CHAPTER NINE: Casting off the 'Byzantine Yoke' (1180–1204)
Bibliography
PRIMARY SOURCES
SECONDARY LITERATURE
Index
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Title: Byzantium's Balkan frontier : a political study of the Northern Balkans, 900-1204 Paul Stephenson.
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Stephenson, Paul
Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2008, c2000.
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Subject Headings: • Byzantine Empire -- Politics and government -- 527-1081
• Byzantine Empire -- Politics and government -- 1081-1453
• Byzantine Empire -- Ethnic relations
• Balkan Peninsula -- Politics and government
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