Reasons for the fall: Written sources and Material evidence for the collapse of Great Moravia
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https://doi.org/10.6092/1593-2214/518Keywords:
Great Moravia, Carolingian Empire, Theotmar of Salzburg, Liutprand of Cremona, Annals of Fulda, ArchaeologyAbstract
This paper re-examines the causes of the fall of Great Moravia, traditionally associated with the expansion of the Magyars into the Danube basin between the end of the ninth and the beginning of the tenth century. It first analyses the written sources, and in particular the Annals of Fulda, which it is argued describe the gradual marginalisation of the polity’s political influence and agency in the region. Second, on the basis of archaeological evidence, the paper attempts to demonstrate that Moravia’s political crisis was closely tied to its fragile socio-economic foundations.
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