| Contents |
"Central Europe" : perceptions, definitions, and comparisons in a historiographical context / Nada Zec̆ević -- Geography, natural resources, and environment / András Vadas -- From Avars to Slavs to the first medieval kingdoms in central Europe : population and settlement, 700-1100 / Daniel Ziemann -- The central European states : from monarch to Standestaat / Julia Burkhardt -- Government : central and local administration / Janos M. Bak and Suzana Miljan -- Law and the administration of justice / János M. Bak and Yuriy Zazuliak -- Wars, warfare, and military organization / Attila Bárány -- 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 / Changing elites in medieval central Europe / Cosmin Popa-Gorjanu -- Locals and immigrants in medieval Central Europe / Stefan Donecker -- Gender and family in medieval central Europe / Michaela Antonín Malaníková, Witold Brzezińksi and Marija Mogorović Crljenko -- Rural land management in medieval central Europe / Edit Sárosi -- Cities and towns in medieval central Europe / Katalin Szende and Felicitas Schmieder -- Mining, finances, and commerce in medieval central Europe / Grzegroz Myśliwski and Balázs Nagy -- Cultural landscapes : education and literature / Farkas Gábor Kiss and Lucie Doležalová -- A history of social communication in east-central Europe : words, scripts, and beyond / Anna Adamska -- Art and architecture in medieval East central Europe / Béla Zsolt Szakács and Zoë Opačić -- Contexts of late medieval daily life / Gerhard Jaritz -- Religious practices (and confessional variants) in medieval central Europe / Stanislava Kuzmová -- The papacy and the region, church structure, and clergy / Agata Zielinska and Igor Razum -- Jews in medieval central Europe / Tamas Visi -- Monasticism in medieval central Europe (c. 800-c. 1550) / Marie-Madeleine de Cevins, with contributions by Marek Derwich and Beatrix Romhányi -- The image of east central Europe in medieval European literature / Levente Seláf -- Musical culture in medieval central Europe / Paweł Gancarzyk -- The Middle Ages after the Middle Ages : popular traditions and medievalism / János M. Bak and Gábor Klaniczay. |
| Abstract |
"The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Central Europe summarizes the political, social, and cultural medieval history of Central Europe (ca. AD 800-1600), a region long considered a "forgotten" area of the European past. The 24 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021056067 |
| ISBN | 9780190920715 (hardback) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
