Vasiliev, Crimea (1936)
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Alexander Alexandrovich Vasiliev, The Goths in the Crimea Series Monographs of the Medieval Academy of America no. 11, (The Medieval Academy of America, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1936)
The title of this monograph does not give the width of time and variety of subjects presented in the work of the famous historian A. Vasiliev (1867-1953), one of the pioneers of Byzantine Studies in the first half of the 20th c. By reading the titles of the chapters one understands that the long narration is about the Crimea (ancient Tavrida, known as Gothia after the installation of the Goths) through a period of one thousand and five hundred years. It is the history and ethnology of the peninsula from the end of the Roman presence until the beginning of the Russian era.
Contents: Preface pp. V-VII.
Chapter I, ‘The Early Period of Christianity and the Epoch of the Migrations’ pp. 3-69. Chapter II, ‘The Period of Byzantine, Khazar and Russian Influence (from the Sixth Century to the Beginning of the Eleventh)’ pp. 70-135. Chapter III, ‘The Period of Polovtzian (Cuman) Dependence and Secession from Byzantium (from the Middle of the Eleventh Century to the Year 1204’ pp. 136-159. Chapter IV, ‘The Epoch of the Latin Empire (1204-1261) and the Dependence of Gothia Upon the Empire of Trebizond’ pp. 160-170. Chapter V, ‘The Principality of Gothia in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries and its Fall in 1475’ pp. 171-266. Chapter VI, ‘Gothia Under the Turkish Sway (from 1475 to the End of the Eighteenth Century)’ pp. 267-280.
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