The Medieval Networks In East Central Europe

Author : Balazs Nagy,András Vadas,Felicitas Schmieder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351371162

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The Medieval Networks in East Central Europe by Balazs Nagy,András Vadas,Felicitas Schmieder Pdf

Medieval Networks in East Central Europe explores the economic, cultural, and religious forms of contact between East Central Europe and the surrounding world in the eight to the fifteenth century. The sixteen chapters are grouped into four thematic parts: the first deals with the problem of the region as a zone between major power centers; the second provides case studies on the economic and cultural implications of religious ties; the third addresses the problem of trade during the state formation process in the region, and the final part looks at the inter- and intraregional trade in the Late Middle Ages. Supported by an extensive range of images, tables, and maps, Medieval Networks in East Central Europe demonstrates and explores the huge significance and international influence that East Central Europe held during the medieval period and is essential reading for scholars and students wishing to understand the integral role that this region played within the processes of the Global Middle Ages.

Author : Jean W. Sedlar
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295800646

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East Central Europe in the Middle Ages, 1000-1500 by Jean W. Sedlar Pdf

Although the Middle Ages saw brilliant achievements in the diverse nations of East Central Europe, this period has been almost totally neglected in Western historical scholarship. East Central Europe in the Middle Ages provides a much-needed overview of the history of the region from the time when the present nationalities established their state structures and adopted Christianity up to the Ottoman conquest. Jean Sedlar’s excellent synthesis clarifies what was going on in Europe between the Elbe and the Ukraine during the Middle Ages, making available for the first time in a single volume information necessary to a fuller understanding of the early history of present-day Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, and the former Yugoslavia. Sedlar writes clearly and fluently, drawing upon publications in numerous languages to craft a masterful study that is accessible and valuable to the general reader and the expert alike. The book is organized thematically; within this framework Sedlar has sought to integrate nationalities and to draw comparisons. Topics covered include early migrations, state formation, monarchies, classes (nobles, landholders, peasants, herders, serfs, and slaves), towns, religion, war, governments, laws and justice, commerce and money, foreign affairs, ethnicity and nationalism, languages and literature, and education and literacy. After the Middle Ages these nations were subsumed by the Ottoman, Habsburg, Russian, and Prussian-German empires. This loss of independence means that their history prior to foreign conquest has acquired exceptional importance in today’s national consciousness, and the medieval period remains a major point of reference and a source of national pride and ethnic identity. This book is a substantial and timely contribution to our knowledge of the history of East Central Europe.

Author : Gerhard Jaritz,Katalin Szende
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317212256

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Medieval East Central Europe in a Comparative Perspective by Gerhard Jaritz,Katalin Szende Pdf

Medieval East Central Europe in a Comparative Perspective draws together the new perspectives concerning the relevance of East Central Europe for current historiography by placing the region in various comparative contexts. The chapters compare conditions within East Central Europe, as well as between East Central Europe, the rest of the continent, and beyond. Including 15 original chapters from an interdisciplinary team of contributors, this collection begins by posing the question: "What is East Central Europe?" with three specialists offering different interpretations and presenting new conclusions. The book is then grouped into five parts which examine political practice, religion, urban experience, and art and literature. The contributors question and explain the reasons for similarities and differences in governance and strategies for handling allies, enemies or subjects in particular ways. They point out themes and structures from town planning to religious orders that did not function according to political boundaries, and for which the inclusion of East Central European territories was systemic. The volume offers a new interpretation of medieval East Central Europe, beyond its traditional limits in space and time and beyond the established conceptual schemes. It will be essential reading for students and scholars of medieval East Central Europe.

Author : Magdolna Szilágyi
Publisher : Archaeolingua
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : 9639911577

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On the Road by Magdolna Szilágyi Pdf

The present volume is dedicated to the different approaches and research strategies of medieval roads and tracks. It is mainly based on historical and archaeological source materials from East-Central Europe, but the research problems are discussed in a wider European context. Roads have never been isolated features in the landscape, but formed the backbone of the settlement system in all times. Being the veins of social and economic life, the history of roads is inextricably connected with the growth and decline of towns, settlements, agriculture and trade. The book introduces its readers into the wide range of sources and methods available for the investigation of this noteworthy, but so far regrettably neglected and understudied topic. The social, political and economic factors as well as the physical landscape created different types of medieval roads in terms of function and physical properties. The purpose of this book is to demonstrate the variability of these roads through East-Central European examples, and stimulate further investigations both within and outside the region. At the same time, it offers a well-selected collection of features, archaeological sites and historical representations with the relevant research methods on the means and ways of medieval communication networks.

Author : Jiří Macháček
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004182080

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The Rise of Medieval Towns and States in East Central Europe by Jiří Macháček Pdf

This book is a contribution to the understanding the transformations that took place across Europe during the second half of the first millennium. The goal is to draw conclusions on the basis of the archaeological evidence from important centres.

Author : Jaroslav Miller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317003397

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Urban Societies in East-Central Europe, 1500–1700 by Jaroslav Miller Pdf

Whilst much has been written about early modern urban history, the majority of this work has focussed on Western Europe with relatively little available in English on towns and cities in the former communist East. However, in recent years urban scholars have increasingly looked to a much more inclusive picture of Europe that compares and contrasts development across the whole continent. Dealing primarily with Bohemia, Hungary and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, this book provides an insight into a number of key issues concerning the economic, social and demographic trends in early modern East-Central European urban history. Taking a supra-national perspective, across a long time span, it examines the effects of migration, Reformation, state building and economic change on the transformation of medieval urban communities into early modern societies. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, particularly the registers of new citizens kept by many towns and cities, a fascinating picture of urban development and social structure is reconstructed that not only tells us much about East-Central Europe, but adds to our knowledge of the whole continent.

Author : Zecevic
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190920715

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Oxford Handbook of Medieval Central Europe by Zecevic Pdf

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.

Author : Beata Możejko,Anna Paulina Orłowska,Leslie Carr-Riegel
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000839142

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Networking in Late Medieval Central Europe by Beata Możejko,Anna Paulina Orłowska,Leslie Carr-Riegel Pdf

Exploring the formation of networks across late medieval Central Europe, this book examines the complex interaction of merchants, students, artists, and diplomats in a web of connections that linked the region. These individuals were friends in business ventures, occasionally families, and not infrequently foes. No single activity linked them, but rather their interconnectivity through matrices based in diverse modalities was key. Partnerships were not always friendship networks, art was sometimes passed between enemies, and families created for financial gain. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the chapters focus on inclusion and exclusion within intercultural networks, both interpersonal and artistic, using a wide spectrum of source materials and methodological approaches. The concept of friends is considered broadly, not only as connections of mutual affection but also simply through business relationships. Families are considered in terms of how they helped or hindered local integration for foreigners and the matrimonial strategies they pursued. Networks were also deeply impacted by rivalry and hostility.

Author : Antoni Maczak,Henryk Samsonowicz,Peter Burke
Publisher : Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, Paris
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : UCAL:B4956493

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East-Central Europe in Transition, from the 14th to the 17th Century by Antoni Maczak,Henryk Samsonowicz,Peter Burke Pdf

Author : Piotr Gorecki,Nancy Elizabeth Van Deusen
Publisher : I.B. Tauris
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015078781906

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Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages by Piotr Gorecki,Nancy Elizabeth Van Deusen Pdf

Our understanding of medieval Central and Eastern Europe is being revitalized by new directions in cultural history. This book contributes to the problem of 'Europe' - as a region and as a construct. It is suitable for scholars working on the cultural, economic and social history of Central and Eastern Europe

Author : Jan Dr. Fellerer,Robert Pyrah,Marius Turda
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000497274

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Identities In-Between in East-Central Europe by Jan Dr. Fellerer,Robert Pyrah,Marius Turda Pdf

This volume addresses the question of ‘identity’ in East-Central Europe. It engages with a specific definition of ‘sub-cultures’ over the period from c. 1900 to the present and proposes novel ways in which the term can be used with the purpose of understanding identities that do not conform to the fixed, standard categories imposed from the top down, such as ‘ethnic group’, ‘majority’ or ‘minority’. Instead, a ‘sub-culture’ is an identity that sits between these categories. It may blend languages, e.g. dialect forms, cultural practices, ethnic and social identifications, or religious affiliations as well as concepts of race and biology that, similarly, sit outside national projects.

Author : Florin Curta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015064946570

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East Central & Eastern Europe in the Early Middle Ages by Florin Curta Pdf

Studies on the history and archaeology of Eastern Europe during the early Middle Ages

Author : Florin Curta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 886 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000476248

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

The Routledge Handbook of East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500–1300 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. While historians have recognized the importance of integrating the eastern part of the European continent into surveys of the Middle Ages, few have actually paid attention to the region, its specific features, problems of chronology and historiography. This vast region represents more than two-thirds of the European continent, but its history in general—and its medieval history in particular—is poorly known. This book covers the history of the whole region, from the Balkans to the Carpathian Basin, and the Bohemian Forest to the Finnish Bay. It provides an overview of the current state of research and a route map for navigating an abundant historiography available in more than ten different languages. Chapters cover topics as diverse as religion, architecture, art, state formation, migration, law, trade and the experiences of women and children. This book is an essential reference for scholars and students of medieval history, as well as those interested in the history of Central and Eastern Europe.

Author : Piotr Stefan Wandycz
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Europe, Central
ISBN : 9780415254915

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The Price of Freedom by Piotr Stefan Wandycz Pdf

The Price of Freedom surveys and explains the fascinating and intricate history of East Central Europe - the present day countries of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. Taking a thematic approach, the author explores such issues and controversies as the tension between the industrial developed West and the agrarian East Central Europe, the rise of modern nationalism, democracy and authoritarianism and Communism. While the countries of East Central Europe have differed dramatically from one another, the author asserts that they have been bound by a certain community of fate. These comparisons are traced through the Middle Ages and the Early Modern era to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This exploration reveals that it is no accident that the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland were the first among the former Soviet bloc nations to be admitted to NATO, and are likely to become the first members of the expanded European Union. Thus an understanding of their experiences, contributions and their place within the European community of nations vastly enriches our knowledge of Europe's past and present. The second edition of this distinguished book brings the history of the region up to date. It discusses the events of the post-communist decade of the 1990s and the problems resulting from the transition to democracy and market economy.

Author : Nora Berend,Przemysław Urbańczyk,Przemysław Wiszewski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521781565

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Central Europe in the High Middle Ages by Nora Berend,Przemysław Urbańczyk,Przemysław Wiszewski Pdf

A groundbreaking comparative history of the formation of Bohemia, Hungary and Poland, from their origins in the eleventh century.