The Early Slavs

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This book presents an introductory and comprehensive history of the Slavic-speaking peoples who inhabited Eastern and Southern Europe during the seven-hundred-year period stretching from the first archaeological and historical records to the establishment of their first organised polities.

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Introduction

Chapter 1: Historiographic sources and archaeological evidence

Chapter 2: The Earliest Slavs

Chapter 3: Trade and Slavery

Chapter 4: The Earliest Polities

Chapter 5: Christianisation

Chapter 6: Written Culture

Epilogue: identities

APPENDIX: Comparative Chronology (530-1230)