The Bulgars and the Steppe Empire in the Early Middle Ages
The Problem of the Others
Tsvetelin Stepanov. Translated from Bulgarian by Tatiana Stefanova and Tsvetelin Stepanov
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Biographical note
Tsvetelin Stepanov, Ph.D. (1997) in History, St Kliment Ohridski University, Bulgaria, is Associate Professor at the Centre for Cultural Studies, St Kliment Ohridski University. He has published extensively on the history and culture of Mediaeval Bulgaria and the Eurasian Steppes.
Readership
All those interested in history and culture of Central Asia, Bulgaria, Byzantium and Khazaria, the problems of 'Otherness', as well as cultural anthropologists and scholars and students in religious studies.
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