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Subject(s)

• Civilization, Medieval [Browse]
• Europe, Central—History—To 1500 [Browse]
• Europe, Central—Civilization [Browse]

Editor

• Nada Zečević [Browse]
• Ziemann, Daniel [Browse]

Series

• Oxford Academic [More in this series]
• Oxford handbooks online

Summary note

The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Central Europe summarizes the political, social, and cultural medieval history of Central Europe (c. ad 800-1600), a region long considered a "forgotten" area of the European past. The twenty-four cutting-edge chapters present up-to-date research about the region's core medieval kingdoms-Hungary, Poland, and Bohemia-and also their dynamic interactions with neighboring areas. From the Baltic to the Adriatic, the Handbook includes reflections on modern conceptions and uses of the region's shared medieval traditions. The volume's thematic organization reveals rarely compared knowledge about the region's medieval resources, its people and structures of power, social life and economy, religion and culture, and the images of its past.

Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Contents: Contributors - Acknowledgments - Preface - Nada Zečević and Daniel Ziemann - Selected Bibliography - Introduction: "Central Europe": Perceptions, Definitions, and Comparisons in a Historiographical Context - Nada Zečević - Part I.Land, People, and Structures of Power - 1. Geography, Natural Resources, and Environment - András Vadas - 2. From Avars and Slavs to the First Medieval Kingdoms in Central Europe: Population and Settlement, 700-1100 - Daniel Ziemann - 3. The Central European States: From Monarchy to Ständestaat - Julia Burkhardt - 4. Government: Central and Local Administration - János M. Bak and Suzana Miljan - 5. Law and the Administration of Justice - János M. Bak and Yuriy Zazuliak - 6. Wars, Warfare, and Military Organization - Attila Bárány - 7. Cooperation and Conflict in Diplomacy and War within and around Central Europe - Gerald Schwedler and Paweł Figurski, with contributions by László Veszprémy, Emir O. Filipović, and Christian Raffensperger - Part II.Society and Economy - 8. Changing Elites in Medieval Central Europe - Cosmin Popa-Gorjanu - 9. Locals and Immigrants in Medieval Central Europe - Stefan Donecker - 10. Gender and Family in Medieval Central Europe - Michaela Antonín Malaníková, Witold Brzeziński, and Marija Mogorović Crljenko - 11. Rural Land Management in Medieval Central Europe - Edit Sárosi - 12. Cities and Towns in Medieval Central Europe - Katalin Szende and Felicitas Schmieder - 13. Mining, Finances, and Commerce in Medieval Central Europe - Grzegorz Myśliwski and Balázs Nagy - Part III.Culture and Religion - 14. Cultural Landscapes: Education and Literature - Farkas Gábor Kiss and Lucie Doležalová - 15. A History of Social Communication in East-Central Europe: Words, Scripts, and Beyond - Anna Adamska - 16. Art and Architecture in Medieval East Central Europe - Béla Zsolt Szakács and Zoë Opačić - 17. Contexts of Late Medieval Daily Life - Gerhard Jaritz - 18. Religious Practices (and Confessional Variants) in Medieval Central Europe - Stanislava Kuzmová - 19. The Papacy and the Region, Church Structure, and Clergy - Agata Zielinska and Igor Razum - 20. Jews in Medieval Central Europe - Tamás Visi - 21. Monasticism in Medieval Central Europe (c. 800-c. 1550) - Marie-Madeleine de Cevins, with contributions by Marek Derwich and Beatrix Romhányi - Part IV.Images of the Past - 22. The Image of East Central Europe in Medieval European Literature - Levente Seláf - 23. Musical Culture in Medieval Central Europe - Paweł Gancarczyk - 24. The Middle Ages after the Middle Ages: Popular Traditions and Medievalism - János M. Bak and Gábor Klaniczay - Index

Other title(s)

The Oxford handbook of medieval central Europe

ISBN

9780190920746 (electronic book)

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