Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages (500-1300) / by Florin Curta.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Curta, Florin, author.

Series:

Brill's Companions to European History 19.

Brill's companions to European history, 2212-7410 ; volume 19

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle Ages--Historiography.

Middle Ages.

Europe, Eastern--History--To 1500.

Europe, Eastern.

Europe, Eastern--Historiography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1,426 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright page

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Illustrations

Concepts and Problems

Written and Archaeological Sources

The Last Century of Roman Power (ca. 500 to circa 620)

East European Dark Ages: Slavs and Avars (500–800)

Migrations—Real and Imagined: Croats, Serbs, and Bulgars (600–800)

Early Medieval Bulgaria (680–850)

The West in the East (800–900)

Great Moravia

Steppe Empires? The Khazars and the Volga Bulgars

Oghuz, Pechenegs, and Cumans: Nomads of Medieval Eastern Europe?

Conversion to Christianity: Moravia and Bulgaria

The Long 10th Century of Bulgaria

New Migrations: Magyars and Vikings

The Rise of Rus’

Byzantium in the Balkans (800–1100)

The Western Balkans in the High Middle Ages (900–1200)

New Powers (I): Piast Poland

New Powers (II): Arpadian Hungary

New Powers (III): Přemyslid Bohemia

Population: Size, Health, Migration

Rural and Urban Economy

Social Organization

The Construct of a Tyrant: Feudalism in Eastern Europe

The Church: Ecclesiastical Organization and Monasticism

The Faith: Religious Practices, Popular Religion, and Heresy

The First Five Crusades and Eastern Europe

Crusades in Eastern Europe

Literacy and Literature

Monumental Art

The Rise of Serbia

The Second Bulgarian Empire

Catastrophe, Pax Mongolica, and Globalization

Back Matter

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-39519-9

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004395190 DOI