Professor C.A. Macartney was one of the foremost 20th-century authorities on the history of the Danube basin. His lifea s work included the re-examination of the sources relating to early Hungarian and Pontic history. This selection of his studies (some of them hardly accessible because they were published in wartime conditions) illuminates one of the dark corners of medieval Europe and tackles controversial questions in the history of the nomadic steppe peoples, such as the Magyars, Pechenegs, Kavars and Cumans. Macartneya s treatment of the earliest Hungarian written sources and their...
Professor C.A. Macartney was one of the foremost 20th-century authorities on the history of the Danube basin. His lifea s work included the re-examina...
