Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Maps -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Terminology -- Overview of the chapters -- Notes -- Chapter 1: Setting the stage -- Geography -- Hum -- Bosnia -- Hum and Bosnia as contested lands -- Sources -- Late Antiquity and Dark Ages -- Early medieval sources -- De Administrando Imperio and Historia Veneticorum -- The Chronicle of the Priest of Duklja -- Notes
Chapter 2: (A long overdue) essay on historiography and archaeology of late antique and early medieval Hum and Bosnia -- Historiography -- Beginnings -- The 'long' nineteenth century, until 1914 -- The 'short' twentieth century, until 1991 -- Most recent scholarship -- Archaeology -- The colonial period -- The Yugoslav period -- Post-Yugoslav era -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 3: The Prelude: Making of imperial society -- Making of Roman society -- Beginning of Late Antiquity -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 4: 'Long' sixth century (ca. 450-630) -- Historical narrative -- Christianity
Burials -- Fortifications and settlement patterns -- Connectivity and production -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 5: The Dark Age interlude (ca. 630-800) -- The question of collapse -- Dark Ages -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 6: 'The force awakening': The ninth century -- Historical picture -- Ethnography and political architecture -- Material evidence -- Hum -- Bosnia -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 7: The lords of Hum (900-1200) -- Duke Michael, son of Bouseboutzsis -- Hum from Michael to the Nemanjićs -- Material evidence -- Hum: from ethnic community to medieval polity -- Notes
Chapter 8: 'Good ol' days of ban Kulin': The birth of Bosnia (900-1200) -- The mists of early medieval Bosnia -- Between the Hungarians and Byzantines -- Ban Kulin -- Material evidence -- Bosnia: making of medieval community -- Notes -- Conclusion -- Note -- Bibliography -- Primary sources -- Modern literature -- Index
