Florin Curta

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Florin Curta (born January 16, 1965 ) is a Romanian -born American historian specializing in the history of medieval Eastern Europe .

Curta initially studied history at the University of Bucharest from 1984 to 1988 . From 1990 to 1993 he worked as an archaeologist at the Institute of Archeology in Bucharest. Since 1993 he studied at Western Michigan University , where he received his PhD in 1998. Since 1999 he has taught as professor of medieval history and archeology at the University of Florida in Gainesville .

Curta is a specialist in the history of the Balkans . He has published several important publications such as B. on the Late Antique Slavs and the history of Southeast Europe in the early and high Middle Ages .

Fonts (selection)

  • The Making of the Slavs. History and Archeology of the Lower Danube Region, c. 500-700 AD Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2001 (awarded the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize of the American Historical Association ).
  • Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, approx. 500-1250 . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2006.
  • The Edinburgh History of the Greeks, c. 500 to 1050. The Early Middle Ages . Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 2011.

Editing

  • East Central & Eastern Europe in the Early Middle Ages . University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor 2005.
  • Borders, barriers, and ethnogenesis. Frontiers in late Antiquity and the Middle Ages . Brepols, Turnhout (Belgium) 2005.
  • The other Europe in the Middle Ages. Avars, Bulgars, Khazars, and Cumans . Brill, Leiden / Boston 2008.
  • Neglected Barbarians . Brepols, Turnhout 2011.
  • with Bogdan-Petru Maleon (Ed.): The Steppe Lands and the World Beyond Them. Studies in Honor of Victor Spinei on his 70th Birthday . Editura Universității "Alexandru Ioan Cuza", Jassy 2013.

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personal data
SURNAME Curta, Florin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American medieval historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Romania