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Pechenegs: Nomads in the Political and Cultural Landscape of Medieval Europe
Inbunden, 2021
2682 kr
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In The Pechenegs: Nomads in the Political and Cultural Landscape of Medieval Europe, Aleksander Paroń offers a reflection on the history of the Pechenegs, a nomadic people which came to control the Black Sea steppe by the end of the ninth century. Nomadic peoples have often been presented in …
Visual Culture and Politics in the Baltic Sea Region, 1100-1250
Inbunden, 2020
2714 kr
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Focusing on visual sources and the cultural landscape, Kersti Markus offers a fresh perspective on the Baltic crusades in Visual Culture and Politics in the Baltic Sea Region, 1100-1250. The book examines how visual propaganda was used by the Danish rulers as an instrument in establishing supremacy …
Other Europe in the Middle Ages
Avars, Bulgars, Khazars and Cumans
Av Florin Curta
Inbunden, 2007
3921 kr
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For most students in medieval studies, Eastern Europe is marginal and East European topics simply exotica. A peculiar form of Orientalism may thus be responsible for the exclusion of the Avars, Bulgars, Khazars, and Cumans from the medieval history of the European continent. This collection of …
Archaeology of Early Medieval Poland
Discoveries – Hypotheses – Interpretations
Av Andrzej Buko
Inbunden, 2007
3721 kr
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This is the first academic book which concentrates on the discoveries of medieval date (6th- 13th centuries) from the territory of modern Poland. The book covers the principal research questions, such as the origins of the Slavs, societies of the proto-state period and the origins of the Polish …
Ritual and Politics: Writing the History of a Dynastic Conflict in Medieval Poland
Inbunden, 2008
2823 kr
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Referring, by way of example, to the chronicler's story about a dynastic conflict in medieval Poland, this book offers an insight into the modes of using ritual as an effective tool of political action in the Middle Ages—both in the practice of political entreprising, and on the level of narrative …
Romanians and the Turkic Nomads North of the Danube Delta from the Tenth to the Mid-Thirteenth Century
Inbunden, 2009
4137 kr
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The author of the present volume aims to investigate the relationships between Romanians and nomadic Turkic groups (Pechenegs, Uzes, Cumans) in the southern half of Moldavia, north of the Danube Delta, between the tenth century and the great Mongol invasion of 1241-1242. The Carpathian-Danubian …
Emergence of the Bohemian State
Av Petr Charvát
Inbunden, 2010
2673 kr
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The emergence of the Bohemian state is a long-discussed topic with many obscure points. Though significant progress has been reached in recent decades, the interpretations proposed are far from satisfactory. Important new information is still awaiting inclusion in explanatory schemes. In addition …
At Europe's Borders: Medieval Towns in the Romanian Principalities
Inbunden, 2010
4633 kr
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This ambitious work focuses on the emergence and the development of medieval towns in the two Romanian principalities of South-Eastern Europe, Wallachia and Moldavia, from their earliest days, in the 13th century, up to the 16th. It is the only work of its kind in English, but at the same time the …
Domus Bolezlai: Values and social identity in dynastic traditions of medieval Poland (c.966-1138)
Inbunden, 2010
4513 kr
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Between the middle of the 10th century and the middle of the 12th century both the cultural and the national identities of the Poles were formed. They were determined by political decisions made by the rulers from the Piast ruling house and built on a framework consisting of stories focused on the …
Rise of Medieval Towns and States in East Central Europe
Early Medieval Centres as Social and Economic Systems
Inbunden, 2010
4338 kr
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This book is a contribution to efforts to understand the transformation that took place across the European continent, and in particular East Central Europe, during the second half of the first millennium. Its goal is to draw conclusions primarily on the basis of the archaeological evidence from …
‘The Slippery Memory of Men’
The Place of Pomerania in the Medieval Kingdom of Poland
Inbunden, 2013
2955 kr
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Paul Milliman's The Slippery Memory of Men is the first monograph on the role played by the early fourteenth-century trials between Poland and the Teutonic Knights in the restoration of the Polish kingdom. It is also only the second English-language monograph on this important transitional period …
Byzantium in the Czech Lands (4th–16th centuries)
Historical and Art Historical Perspectives
Inbunden, 2022
2915 kr
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This book offers the first comprehensive study of Byzantine influence on the art and iconography of East Central Europe. Petr Balcárek focuses on the Byzantine cultural and religious legacy in the Czech lands, thereby bringing to light rarely seen images and presenting fresh hypotheses based on …
Medieval Jewelry and Burial Assemblages in Croatia
A Study of Graves and Grave Goods, ca. 800 to ca. 1450
Häftad, 2015
2767 kr
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The Croatian medieval archaeological heritage from the 8th to the 15th century consists mostly of jewelry (earrings) findings from cemeteries. This book uses vertical and horizontal stratigraphy, on the basis of around 20,000 burial assemblages from 16 cemeteries (out of several hundred so far …
Birth of a Stereotype
Polish Rulers and their Country in German Writings c. 1000 A.D.
Inbunden, 2011
3174 kr
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In early Medieval Western Europe intellectuals were used to indicate the external location of Slavic countries, as though outside civilization, with the term ‘the North’. The problem did not only concern nomenclature. The stereotype associated with ‘the North’ pointed at the obvious cold weather, …
Middle Ages between the Eastern Alps and the Northern Adriatic
Select Papers on Slovene Historiography and Medieval History
Av Peter Štih
Inbunden, 2010
4445 kr
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The book deals with the Slovene historiography and history of the Slovene and neighbouring territories in the Middle Ages. It is the first work of its kind published in English. It thus makes the medieval history of this part of Europe and some of its fundamental problems accessible to the widest …
Becoming Slav, Becoming Croat
Identity Transformations in Post-Roman and Early Medieval Dalmatia
Inbunden, 2010
2673 kr
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Late antique identities from the Western Balkans were transformed into new, Slavic identities after c. 600 AD. It was a process that is still having continuous impact on the discursive constructions of ethnic and regional identities in the area. Building on the new ways of reading and studying …
Word and Power in Mediaeval Bulgaria
Inbunden, 2011
3731 kr
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The law is a cultural phenomenon that impacts on the whole normative system of a civilisation and finally its core values. It is part of and simultaneously protector of these values. As such the law is in close relation with identity and with one of its main transmitters - the language. Every …
Czech Lands in Medieval Transformation
Av Jan Klapste
Inbunden, 2011
4472 kr
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This book offers a key to several important chapters of the history of Czech lands, firmly anchoring them in a broad European context. The Medieval transformation that impacted the Czech lands mostly in the 13th century is seen as a broad cultural change in which domestic preconditions encountered …
Northern Gold
Amber in Lithuania (c. 100 to c. 1200)
Inbunden, 2011
3759 kr
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This study presents a systematic analysis of the huge, and in most cases, completely new archaeological evidence for amber from Lithuania and the surrounding regions. A comprehensive synthesis of archaeological evidence and written sources provides an opportunity to develop new viewpoints about the …
Tale of the Prophet Isaiah
The Destiny and Meanings of an Apocryphal Text
Inbunden, 2013
2948 kr
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In The Tale of the Prophet Isaiah. The Destiny and Meanings of an Apocryphal Text Ivan Biliarsky proposes an edition of the original text of the medieval apocryphon, together with images of the single manuscript copy. The author also includes a large commentary on the otherwise quite unclear …
Making of Christian Moravia (858-882)
Papal Power and Political Reality
Inbunden, 2013
2257 kr
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In The Making of Christian Moravia Maddalena Betti examines the creation of the Moravian archdiocese, of which St Methodius was the first incumbent, in the context of ninth-century papal policy in central and south-eastern Europe. In the nineteenth and twentieth century religious and nationalistic …
Byzantine Military Organization on the Danube, 10th-12th Centuries
Inbunden, 2013
2324 kr
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The current state of research on this contact area between Byzantium and East Central Europe during a troubled period invites a new synthesis of the most recent finds and interpretations. No such comprehensive work addressing both literary and archaeological evidence exists for the history of the …
Muslim Sources on the Magyars in the Second Half of the 9th Century
The Magyar Chapter of the Jayhānī Tradition
Inbunden, 2015
2931 kr
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The Jayhānī tradition contains the most detailed description of the Magyars/Hungarians before the Conquest of the Carpathian Basin (895). Unfortunately, the book itself was lost and it can only be reconstructed from late Arabic, Persian and Turkic copies. The reconstruction is primarily based on …
Mortuary Archaeology of the Medieval Banat (10th-14th Centuries)
Av Silviu Ota
Inbunden, 2014
4083 kr
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Winner of the 2016 George Bariţiu PrizeIn The Mortuary Archaeology of the Medieval Banat (10th – 14th centuries) Silviu Oţa highlights the interactions between different ethnic groups as reflected in burial customs and funerary practices. The book will deal with the Banat as a whole (as opposed to …
Avar-Age Polearms and Edged Weapons
Classification, Typology, Chronology and Technology
Inbunden, 2015
4166 kr
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In Avar-Age Polearms and Edged Weapons, Gergely Csiky offers a presentation of close combat weapons of a nomadic population that migrated from Inner Asia to East-Central Europe. During the late 6th – early 7th centuries, the Avars led successful military campaigns against the Balkan realms of the …
Mongols and the Black Sea Trade in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
Inbunden, 2012
3465 kr
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The inclusion of the Black Sea basin into the long-distance trade network – with its two axes of the Silk Road through the Golden Horde (Urgench-Sarai-Tana/Caffa) and the Spice Road through the Ilkhanate (Ormuz-Tabriz-Trebizond) – was the two Mongol states’ most important contribution to making the …
Anatomy of a Duchy
The Political and Ecclesiastical Structures of Early Přemyslid Bohemia
Inbunden, 2012
3391 kr
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An analysis of the early Přemyslid realm provides an opportunity for recognizing the importance of different factors involved in the formation of stable social structures in the early medieval regnum. The contemporary narrative emphasizes the importance of violence, where the Přemyslid princes and …
Transylvania in the Second Half of the Thirteenth Century
The Rise of the Congregational System
Inbunden, 2016
2767 kr
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In Transylvania in the Second Half of the Thirteenth Century Tudor Salagean describes the deep transformations of a country that was the scene of a fierce resistance against the great Mongol invasion of 1241-1242. In the second half of the thirteenth century, with the rise of the provincial …
Slavery in Árpád-era Hungary in a Comparative Context
Av Cameron Sutt
Inbunden, 2015
2673 kr
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In Slavery in Árpád-era Hungary in a Comparative Context, Cameron Sutt examines servile labour in the first three centuries of the Hungarian kingdom and compares it with dependent labour in Carolingian Europe. Such comparative methodology provides a particularly clear view of the nature of …
Vladislaus Henry
The Formation of Moravian Identity
Inbunden, 2015
3157 kr
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This book offer a biography of a key East Central European ruler, Vladislaus Henry, who ruled the Margraviate of Moravia from 1198 to 1222 and, in cooperation with his brother, King Přemysl Otakar I of Bohemia, was involved in the transformation of the Holy Roman Empire into a free union of …
