Bulgaria under Kings Symeon and Peter

• Curta 213-247
• Petkov 33-34, 43-46, 47-48, 58-64, 65-68, and 89-93
  
• see a brief presentation of the site and the ramparts of Preslav (see also the plan of the city)
• see a biography of St. John of Rila and a brief presentation of the Rila Monastery

  In-class assignment # 2

 Magyars and Vikings

• András Róna-Tas, "The migration of the Hungarians and their settlement in the Carpathian basin," in Historical and Linguistic Interaction Between Inner Asia and Europe. Proceedings of the 39th Permanent International Altaistic Conference (PIAC), Szeged, Hungary: June 16-21, 1996, ed. by A. Berta and E. Horváth (Szeged, 1997), pp. 243-253 (Pack)
• Johan Callmer, "From West to East. The penetration of Scandinavians into Eastern Europe, ca. 500-900," in Les centres proto-urbains russes entre Scandinavie, Byzance et Orient. Actes du colloque international tenu au Collège de France en octobre 1997, ed. by Michel Kazanski, Anne Nercessian and Constantin Zuckerman (Paris, 2000), pp. 45-94 (Pack)
• Mateusz Bogucki, "Viking-age ports of trade in Poland," Eesti Arheoloogiaajakiri 8, no. 2 (2004), 100-127 (Pack)