Aspects of the Balkans: Continuity and Change

Frontmatter -- Prefatory Note / Birnbaum, H. -- Contents -- The Neolithic Cultures of the Balkan Peninsula / Gimbutas, Marda -- The Earliest Ethnological Situation of the Balkan Peninsula as Evidenced by Linguistic and Onomastic Data / Georgiev, Vladimir I. -- Balkan Slavic Migrations in the Light of South Slavic Dialectology / Ivic, Pavle -- The Status of Turkisms in the Present-Day Balkan Languages / Kazazis, Kostas -- Town and Country in the Byzantine Possessions of the Balkan Peninsula During the Later Period of the Empire / Charanis, Peter -- Le Problème De La Continuité Dans L'histoire De La Bulgarie Médiévale / Dujcev, Ivan -- Religious Changes and Patterns in the Balkans, 14th-16th Centuries / Vryonis, Jr. -- Aspects De La Peinture Religieuse Dans Les Balkans (1300-1500) / Chatztoakis, Manolis -- Nachleben Byzantinischer Traditionen In Der Moschee Murads II. In Edirne / Otto-Dorn, Katharine -- A Byzantine Ars Nova: The 14th-Century Reforms of John Koukouzeles in the Chanting of Great Vespers / Williams, Edward V. -- Greek Religious Texts During the Ottoman Period / Laourdas, Basil -- Byzantine Tradition Transformed: The Old Serbian Vita / Birnbaum, Henrik -- The Balkans and Ottoman Sources - Ottoman Sources and the Balkans / Tietze, Andreas -- The Effect of the Turkish Conquest on Balkan Epic Tradition / Lord, Albert B. -- Process and Structure in Traditional Storytelling in the Balkans: Some Preliminary Remarks / Georges, Robert A. -- The Ottoman Decline and Its Effects Upon the Reaya / Inalcik, Haul -- Die Patriarchale Altkultur Und Der Weg Zur Neukultur / Matl, Josef -- Parallel Developments in the Poetry of the South Slavs (Late 19th and Early 20th Century) / Eekman, Thomas -- Nationalism and Communism in Yugoslavia: An Attempt at Synthesis / Burks, R. V. -- Balkan Demographic Trends and Population Heartlands / Kostanick, Huey Louis -- Epilogue / Vryonis, S.