The Bulgars and the Steppe Empire in the Early Middle Ages

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CONTENTS


Illustrations ......................................................................................... vii
Maps ..................................................................................................... ix
Acknowledgements ............................................................................ xiii
Introduction ........................................................................................ 1


Chapter I. Th e ‘Outside’ Other ....................................................... 13
I.1. Th e Other is ‘locked behind walls’, or about the role
of the initial visual demarcation ......................................... 13
I.2. About freedom and otherness and the signs and images
of usness and otherness ......................................................... 40
I.3. World religions and otherness ............................................. 64


Chapter II. Th e ‘Inside’ Other ......................................................... 85
II.1. Th e female otherness (combining bow and ‘female
work’, or between order and chaos) .................................. 86
II.2. Smiths and shamans/magicians/koloburs, or the
inevitable but necessary otherness ..................................... 110
II.3. Th e Otherness of those (aristocrats) professing
non-state religion ................................................................. 119


Conclusion .......................................................................................... 127
Bibliography ........................................................................................ 131
Index .................................................................................................... 147


Illustrations Section

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