Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages (500-1300) (2 vols)
Winner of the 2020 Verbruggen prize
This book provides a comprehensive synthesis of scholarship on Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages. The goal is to offer an overview of the current state of research and a basic route map for navigating an abundant historiography available in more than 10 different languages. The literature published in English on the medieval history of Eastern Europe—books, chapters, and articles—represents a little more than 11 percent of the historiography. The companion is therefore meant to provide an orientation into the existing literature that may not be available because of linguistic barriers and, in addition, an introductory bibliography in English. Winner of the 2020 Verbruggen prize, awarded annually by the De Re Militari society for the best book on medieval military history. The awarding committee commented that the book ‘has an enormous range, and yet is exceptionally scholarly with a fine grasp of detail. Its title points to a general history of eastern Europe, but it is dominated by military episodes which make it of the highest value to anybody writing about war and warmaking in this very neglected area of Europe.’ See inside the book. |
Contents
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Chapter 1 Concepts and Problems
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1 |
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Chapter 2 Written and Archaeological Sources
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15 |
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Chapter 3 The Last Century of Roman Power ca 500 to ca 620
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31 |
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Slavs and Avars 500800
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41 |
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Croats Serbs and Bulgars 600800
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65 |
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Chapter 6 Early Medieval Bulgaria 680850
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78 |
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Chapter 7 The West in the East 800900
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101 |
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Chapter 8 Great Moravia
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113 |
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Přemyslid Bohemia
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389 |
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Size Health Migration
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409 |
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Chapter 21 Rural and Urban Economy
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420 |
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Chapter 22 Social Organization
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441 |
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Feudalism in Eastern Europe
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463 |
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Ecclesiastical Organization and Monasticism
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470 |
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Religious Practices Popular Religion and Heresy
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500 |
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Chapter 26 The First Five Crusades and Eastern Europe
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534 |
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Chapter 9 Steppe Empires? The Khazars and the Volga Bulgars
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128 |
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Nomads of Medieval Eastern Europe?
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152 |
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Moravia and Bulgaria
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179 |
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Chapter 12 The Long 10th Century of Bulgaria
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214 |
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Magyars and Vikings
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250 |
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Chapter 14 The Rise of Rus
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274 |
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Chapter 15 Byzantium in the Balkans 8001100
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306 |
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Chapter 16 The Western Balkans in the High Middle Ages 9001200
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325 |
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Piast Poland
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341 |
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Arpadian Hungary
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363 |
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Chapter 27 Crusades in Eastern Europe
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556 |
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Chapter 28 Literacy and Literature
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576 |
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Chapter 29 Monumental Art
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608 |
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Chapter 30 The Rise of Serbia
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656 |
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Chapter 31 The Second Bulgarian Empire
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671 |
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Chapter 32 Catastrophe Pax Mongolica and Globalization
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699 |
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Bibliography
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719 |
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Index
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1357 |
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