{"product_id":"early-medieval-hum-and-bosnia-ca-450-1200-beyond-myths-9781032047935","title":"Early Medieval Hum and Bosnia, Ca. 450-1200: Beyond Myths","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book explores social transformations which led to the establishment of medieval Hum (future Herzegovina) and Bosnia in the period from \u003ci\u003eca.\u003c\/i\u003e 450 to 1200 AD using the available written and material sources. It follows social and political developments in these historical regions from the last centuries of Late Antiquity, through the social collapse of the seventh and eighth centuries, and into their new medieval beginnings in the ninth century. Fragmentary and problematic sources from this period were, in the past, often used to justify modern political claims to these contested territories and incorporate them into the 'national biographies' of the Croats, Serbs and Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims), or to support the 'Yugoslavizing' and other ideological discourses.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book goes beyond ideological and national mythologemes of the past in order to provide a new historical narrative that brings more light to this region placed on the frontiers of both the medieval West and the Byzantine empire. It provides new views of the period between ca. 450 and 1200 for the parts of Western Balkans and Eastern Adriatic, brings the most recent local historical and archaeological research to the Anglophone readership and contributes to the scholarship of the late antique and early medieval Mediterranean study of this very poorly known area.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book is intended for academic audiences interested in history and archaeology of the Late Antiquity and early Middle Ages, but also to all those interested in the general history of Herzegovina, Bosnia, Dalmatia and the Balkans.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDanijel Dzino\u003c\/strong\u003e is Senior Lecturer in Department of History and Archaeology at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. His publications include: \u003ci\u003eFrom Justinian to Branimir: the making of the Middle Ages in Dalmatia\u003c\/i\u003e (2021), \u003ci\u003eBecoming Slav, Becoming Croat: Identity Transformations in Post-Roman Dalmatia \u003c\/i\u003e(2010) and \u003ci\u003eIllyricum in Roman Politics, 229BC-AD 68 \u003c\/i\u003e(2010).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Routledge","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50871698522386,"sku":"9781032047935","price":57.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3b065248-1f10-4f6f-8b20-19a49634a9ce.jpg?v=1737846904","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/early-medieval-hum-and-bosnia-ca-450-1200-beyond-myths-9781032047935","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}