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This book presents an introductory and comprehensive history of the Slavic-speaking peoples who inhabited Eastern and Southern Europe during the 700-year period stretching from the first archaeological and historical records to the establishment of their first organised polities.
The book isorganised thematically (social organisation, politics and government, economy, religion, culture) in order to present some of the most recent scholarlyadvances in a range of fields, showing new light in some historical scholarly polemics. It is a political and cultural history that incorporates recentfindings in areas previously overlooked in scholarly literature, such as slavery, the role of women, the importance of Jewish communities, and theproblematic relations of all these emerging polities with neighbouring empires. Instead of focusing exclusively on any specific geographic area, ordealing mainly with linguistic and cultural aspects, the book provides a much-needed overview of the origins of many modern nations in Eastern andSouthern Europe.

Susana Torres Prieto is Associate Professor in the Humanities at IE University (Madrid), Spain. Her research focuses on Medieval Slavic literature andculture. She has conducted her research at the Universities of Cambridge, Harvard and Paris-Sorbonne, among others. In her publications, she analysestextual transmission in Slavic medieval literatures from a comprehensive perspective, encompassing literary, translation and manuscript studies, andincorporating the latest developments in digital humanities. She has authored more than forty articles and book chapters on medieval Slavic studies.She co-edited the volume Medieval Rus’ and Early Modern Russia: Texts and Contexts (Routledge 2023, with Andrei Franklin). She is member of severalinternational scientific societies.

Susana Torres Prieto