EAN: 9783825347079

NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE EARLY SLAVS AND THE RIS...

The volume is addressed to one of the most fascinating issues in contemporary historical
linguistics and medieval studies  which is the extremely fast expansion of the Slavic language
across great parts of Europe in the Early Middle Ages. Traditionalists explain the spread of
proto-Slavic as a result of migrations in the 6th-7th century and associate that with a
specific material culture and with early mentions of ethnic Slavs in written sources.
Alternative hypotheses attribute the same evidence to linguistically and genetically quite
varied communities and associate the later spread of proto-Slavic with its status as a 'lingua
franca' or 'koiné'. The papers in the present volume interpret new methodological and empirical
findings from several fields of study  not only from the traditional triad of linguistics 
archaeology  and historiography  but also from adjacent disciplines such as religious studies 
cultural anthropology  archaeogenetics  and others. The unifying thread is that the question of
the relations between Slavic language  ethnicity  and material culture has differing answers in
different geographical and political contexts.

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