Slavs in the Middle Ages between Idea and Reality

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

Del 89 i serien East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450

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Beskrivning

The book presents a new history of the Slavs during the Middle Ages. Based on in-depth source analysis, it describes on the one hand the ‘factual’ historical structures that can be discerned behind the phenomenon of ‘the Slavs’ – from the ‘early Slavic’ population groups and their first formations of power in the 7th to 9th centuries, through the Slavic-speaking realms and nationes of the 10th to 12th centuries, to the late medieval societies of the 13th to 15th centuries. On the other hand, it analyzes external Byzantine, Latin and Arabic perceptions, as well as ‘Slavic’ self-imagery, with which the Slavs have been conceptualized or imagined as a cultural construct since the 6th century. Mühle further demonstrates that these images were already being instrumentalized for historical-political purposes in various contexts and for different purposes in the Middle Ages.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-03-23
Mått:155 x 235 x 45 mm
Vikt:1 167 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450
Antal sidor:610
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004450257
Originaltitel:Die Slawen zwischen Idee und Wirklichkeit.

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Eduard Mühle, Ph.D., (1990), Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, is Professor of East Central and Eastern European History at the University of Münster. He has published widely on medieval and modern History.

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsMaps1 Prologue: The Making of Slavs in Modern Times1 The Western Discovery of the Slavs between Baroque and Romanticism2 Ideas of Slavic Community and Modern “Nation-Building”3 Slavic Unity and German Anti-Slavism4 The Slavic Idea in Eastern Europe between Stalinism and the European Union2 Questions and Methodology3 The Discovery of the Slavs in the Early Middle Ages1 Slavic Warriors and Settlers in Byzantium2 Slavic gentes in the Eyes of Latin Europe3 Slavs in the Distant Oriental View4 Early Slavic Realities1 Archaeology and Early Slavic Culture2 Open Settlements3 Living Houses4 Subsistence Economy5 Practices of Cult and Religion6 Local Communities7 Leaders and War-Bands8 Strongholds and Trading Places5 Early Slavic Power Structures (regna)1 The Khanate of the Proto-Bulgars2 Small Principalities in the Western Balkans3 Carinthia4 Old Moravia6 The Slavs in the Process of Medieval ‘State-Formation’ and ‘Nation-Building’1 Bulgaria2 Bohemia3 Croatia4 Kievan Rus’5 Poland6 Serbia7 Incomplete Processes of “State-Formation” and “Nation-Building”1 Polabian Slavs2 Pomerania3 Slavs in the Balkans8 Slavs Perceived by Non-Slavs through the Middle Ages1 The Byzantine Perception2 The Oriental Perception3 The Latin-European Perception9 Ideas of Slavic Unity in the Late Middle Ages1 Bohemia2 Poland3 Pomerania and Mecklenburg4 South-Eastern Europe5 Kievan Rus’ and Muscovy10 Epilogue: The Making of the Slavs in the Middle AgesBibliographyIndices