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The Great Migrations in the East and South East of Europe from the Ninth to the Thirteenth Century

出版	Adolf M. Hakkert, 2022
ISBN	90256134709789025613471
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=MmSlzwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Human migrations are a universal phenomenon that has marked the evolution of humankind from its genesis until the present day, its forms varying in time and space. The constant spread of the human element all over the world, in its tenacious efforts to survive and prosper, is its most outstanding outcome. Unlike in Western Europe, where great migrations ended at the beginning of the first millennium A.D., in Eastern Europe they continued with uneven intensity until the first centuries of the next millennium. These massive displacements of populations, being the peak but also the waning moment of a process that had started long before it gained transcontinental dimensions, had important effects upon all the mechanisms of human life in the affected area, reflected in significant disturbances of the ethnic and demographic spectrum, of the economic evolution, of the social and political structures, of the cultural sphere, of the religious systems, etc. The text submitted to the attention of our potential readers deals only with the last segment of the great migrations in the Ponto-Caspian area, the low and middle basin of the Danube and the Balkan Peninsula, over a period of approximately five centuries; this was important not only in the context of Middle Ages, but also in the long term consequences, which can be traced even today in the ethnic, demographic and cultural configurations of Eastern and Central Europe.