The Routledge Handbook of East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500-1300

ISBN-13: 9781032127828 / Miękka / 2023 / 580 str.

Opis

This book is the first of its kind to provide a point of reference for the history of the whole of Eastern Europe during the Middle Ages. It is essential reading for scholars and students of medieval history, as well as those interested in the history of central and eastern Europe.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Situating medieval Eastern Europe: historiography and discontent  2. Between migration and origo gentis: population movements  3. Steppe empires without emperors: Avars, Bulgars and Khazars  4. Medieval nomadism  5. Early conversion to Christianity, Judaism and Islam  6. Conversion to Christianity: Bohemia, Poland, Hungary and Rus’ (9^th to 12^th centuries)  7. State formation in the 10^th century  8. Strongholds and early medieval states  9. The rise of the early medieval aristocracy  10. Rulers between ideal and reality  11. Royal governments  12. Rural economy  13. Crafts, coins and trade (900-1300)  14. Towns and cities  15. Lords, peasants and slaves  16. Women and children  17. Jews, Armenians and Muslims  18. Church organization  19. Saints and relics  20. Heresy and popular religion  21. Crusades and Eastern Europe  22. The Baltic Crusades (1147-1300)  23. Political and practical literacy  24. Law  25. History writing  26. Hagiography  27. Monumental architecture  28. Monumental art  29. New powers - Serbia, Bulgaria  30. The Mongols in Eastern Europe

O autorze

Florin Curta is Professor of Medieval History and Archaeology at the University of Florida, USA. His books include Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500–1250 (2006); The Making of the Slavs: History and Archaeology of the Lower Danube, ca. 500–700 (2011), which received the Herbert Baxter Adams Award of the American Historical Association; The Edinburgh History of the Greeks, c. 500 to 1050: The Early Middle Ages (2011); Slavs in the Making: History, Linguistics and Archaeology in Eastern Europe (c. 500 to c. 700) (2021); and The Long Sixth Century in Eastern Europe (2021).