The Bulgars and the Steppe Empire in the Early Middle Ages

46 chapter one creating intrigues and stirring up intentional troubles among the Turks;^103 for that reason Tonyuquq appealed to ...

the ‘outside’ other 47 Turkic own ethos, which was familiar and accepted as valuable and respectful. Tonyuquq’s warnings mention ...

48 chapter one the craft smen and painters sent by the Chinese emperor and they worked at the construction and decoration of Kül ...

the ‘outside’ other 49 diff erent languages in the fi rst place) was explicitly stated by Yollig- tegin who was asked by Bilgä k ...

50 chapter one In his work about the reign of Justinian the Great (527–565) Agath- ias of Myrina (sixth century) explicitly ment ...

the ‘outside’ other 51 respectively) is a special problem with regard to signs and it reveals the gradual increase of Chinese in ...

52 chapter one century.^136 In the fourth–sixth century, a troubled period in China, a considerable number of Chinese, aristocra ...

the ‘outside’ other 53 cally Bulgarian^142 and apparently worth the attention of the Byzantine miniaturists. Th erefore, we are ...

54 chapter one to the north of the Great Wall of China were not favorable for grow- ing tea. So drinking the foreign drink was j ...

the ‘outside’ other 55 the Northern Qi dynasty (550–577) represent a barbarian costume”), proposes the idea that “putou” is a re ...

56 chapter one the Turkic Khazars—their military fl ags were decorated on the top with wolf’s heads made of gold (compare the ye ...

the ‘outside’ other 57 it came to identifi cation, equality of rights, power and the search for ways to create a ‘Bulgar image’. ...

58 chapter one the typical features of its “strategic culture” manifested by a “strategic behavior”. Johnston says that the esse ...

the ‘outside’ other 59 ations when they tried to humiliate the other.^169 Th e rulers from “Pax Nomadica” acted very inventively ...

60 chapter one and calls him “the old man emperor, the bold headed”.^173 So beside the collective portraits, illustrated as a ru ...

the ‘outside’ other 61 broke into the prison, set their tribesmen free and slaughtered most of the guards; with some only beaten ...

62 chapter one ... it is enough if the two little boys from the South [the Northern Chou and the Northern Qi dynasties—my note, ...

the ‘outside’ other 63 Th e Uighur khagan’s reputation grew signifi cantly especially aft er 760s. On the occasion of his marria ...

64 chapter one I.3. World religions and otherness Except for Islam, the great world (as well as monotheistic) religions penetrat ...

the ‘outside’ other 65 Chinese society and the Chinese state, in general. Th ere, the religion did not have any meaningful indep ...