Week 1

 What is Eastern Europe? Medieval history and modern approaches

A question of terminology: Central, Eastern, Southeastern, and East Central Europe Written and archaeological sources
  • Curta 5-38
  • Petkov 5-13, 36-42, 46-48, 131-135, 236, 425-436, and 482-483
  • Antoaneta Granberg, "On deciphering mediaeval runic scripts from the Balkans," in Kulturnite tekstove na minaloto. Nositeli, simvoli, idei. Materiali ot iubileinata nauchna konferenciia v chest na 60-godishninata na prof.  d.i.n. Kazimir Popkonstantinov. Veliko Tărnovo, 29-31 oktomvri 2003, ed. by Vasil Giuzelev (Sofia, 2005), pp. 128-139 (Pack)
  • Branko Fučić and Niko Kapetanić, "A Glagolitic inscription in Konavle," Dubrovnik Annals 3 (1999), 7-9 (Pack
  • see an example of twelfth-century Rus' seals from Ukraine
  • see an example of birch-bark letter from Novgorod
  • see examples of Runic inscriptions found in Russia and Ukraine