The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Central Europe Nada Zecevic

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0190920718
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0190920715
• Author(s): Nada Zecevic; Daniel Ziemann

The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Central Europe summarizes the political, social, and cultural history of medieval Central Europe (c. 800-1600 CE), a region long considered a “forgotten” area of the European past. The 25 cutting-edge chapters present up-to-date research about the region’s core medieval kingdoms — Hungary, Poland, and Bohemia — and 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 peoples and structures of power; its social life and economy; its religion and culture; and images of its past.

Table contents:

Introduction: “Central Europe”: Perceptions, Definitions, and Comparisons in a Historiographical Context
Part I. Land, People, and Structures of Power
1. Geography, Natural Resources, and Environment
2. From Avars and Slavs to the First Medieval Kingdoms in Central Europe: Population and Settlement, 700–1100
3. The Central European States: From Monarchy to Ständestaat
4. Government: Central and Local Administration
5. Law and the Administration of Justice
6. Wars, Warfare, and Military Organization
7. Cooperation and Conflict in Diplomacy and War within and around Central Europe
Part II. Society and Economy
8. Changing Elites in Medieval Central Europe
9. Locals and Immigrants in Medieval Central Europe
10. Gender and Family in Medieval Central Europe
11. Rural Land Management in Medieval Central Europe
12. Cities and Towns in Medieval Central Europe
13. Mining, Finances, and Commerce in Medieval Central Europe
Part III. Culture and Religion
14. Cultural Landscapes: Education and Literature
15. A History of Social Communication in East-Central Europe: Words, Scripts, and Beyond
16. Art and Architecture in Medieval East Central Europe
17. Contexts of Late Medieval Daily Life
18. Religious Practices (and Confessional Variants) in Medieval Central Europe
19. The Papacy and the Region, Church Structure, and Clergy
20. Jews in Medieval Central Europe
21. Monasticism in Medieval Central Europe (c. 800–c. 1550)
Part IV. Images of the Past
22. The Image of East Central Europe in Medieval European Literature
23. Musical Culture in Medieval Central Europe
24. The Middle Ages after the Middle Ages: Popular Traditions and Medievalism
Index

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