The Oxford handbook of medieval Central Europe / edited by Nada Zečević and Daniel Ziemann.

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"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 medi...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Oxford handbooks.
Other Authors: Zečević, Nada (Editor)
Ziemann, Daniel (Editor)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]
Series:Oxford handbooks.
Subjects:
Europe, Central > History > To 1500.
Europe, Central > Civilization.
Civilization, Medieval.
Europe centrale > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1500.
Civilisation médiévale.
Civilization.
Central Europe.
To 1500
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xxiv, 601 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: "Central Europe": Perceptions, definitions, and comparisons in a historiographical context / Nada Zečević
  • Part I. Land, people, and structures of power
  • Geography, natural resources, and environment / András Vadas
  • From Avars and slavs to the first medieval kingdoms in central Europe: population and settlement, 700-1100 / Daniel Ziemann
  • The central European states: From monarchy to Standestaat / Julia Burkhardt
  • Government: Central and local administration / János M. Bak and Suzana Miljan
  • Law and the administration of justice
  • János M. Bak and Suzana Miljan
  • 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
  • Part II. Society and economy
  • Changing elites in medieval central Europe / Stefan Donecker
  • Gender and family in medical central Europe / Michaela Antonín Malaníková, Witold Brzeziński, 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 / Grzegorz Myśliwski and Balázs Nagy
  • Part III. Culture and religion
  • 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 Adameska
  • Art and architecture in medieval east central Europe / Béla Zsolt Szakács and Zoë Opacic- 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 / Tamás Visi
  • 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
  • The image of east central Europe in Medieval European literature / Levente Seláf
  • Musical culture in medieval central Europe / Paweł Gancarczyk
  • The middle ages after the middle ages: Popular traditions and medievalism / János M. Bak and Gábor Klaniczay.