The Slavs: Their Early History and Civilization
Francis Dvornik
The Slavs: Their Early History and Civilization
by Francis Dvornik
Professor of Byzantine History at Dumbarton Oaks and Member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston 1956
Survey of Slavic civilization, volume II
Published with the assistance of and under the sponsorship of Curt Reisinger and the Committee for the Promotion of Advanced Slavic Cultural Studies in cooperation with the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. Volume I, Dmitry Cizevsky, Outline of Comparative Slavic Literature, 143 pp., paper cover, $2.00, was published in December 1952.
© Copyright 1956 by American Academy of Arts and Sciences
To the Memory of my Mother
CONTENTS
Preface 1
Chapter 1. Origins and Migrations of the Slavs 3
Chapter 2. Primitive Slavic Civilization 46
Chapter 3. The Franks, Byzantium and the First Slavic States 60
Chapter 4. The Moravian Empire and Its Greek Apostles SS. Constantine-Cyril and Methodius 80
Chapter 5. After the Destruction of the Moravian Empire. Germany and the Rise of Bohemia and Poland 103
Chapter 6. The Southern Slavs, the Franks, Byzantium and Rome 116
Chapter 7. Old Slavonic Culture and Literature and Their Byzantine Background 147
Chapter 8. The Russia of Kiev 189
Chapter 9. The Slavs at the Crossroads. Federation in Otto III’s Roman Empire of the Formation of a Great Slav State? 256
Chapter 10. The Slavs, The Empire, and The Papacy 271
Chapter 11. The Baltic and Polabian Slavs: The Wends 293
Chapter 12. The Downfall of Poland and Bohemia: Westernization of Their Culture 312
Bibliography 342
Index 373