The Second Bulgarian Empire and Serbia

• Curta 328-338, 357-365, 379-389, and 400
• Petkov 219-230 and 380-394
  
• The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela
• R. L. Wolff, "The 'Second Bulgarian empire'. Its origin and history to 1204," Speculum 24 (1949), 167-206 (available online)
• visit the Zica royal monastery and Turnovo, the capital of the Second Bulgarian Empire (see, especially, the plan of the city and the St. Demetrius Church)

In-class assignment # 5

 The Mongol invasion

• Curta 408-414
• Petkov 440-441
  
• Gregory C. Guzman, "European clerical envoys to the Mongols: reports of Western merchants in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, 1231-1255," Journal of Medieval History 22 (1996), 53-67 (available online)
• see a series of maps of the Mongol Empire
• see a dirham minted for the Golden Horde Khan Uzbek, and a brief presentation of Golden Horde art
• see the Annals of Jan Dlugosz on the battle of Legnica