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.

Table des matières :

Introduction: « Central Europe: » Perceptions, Definitions, and Comparisons in a Historiographical Context
Nada Zecevic

PART I. LAND, PEOPLE, AND STRUCTURES OF POWER

1. Geography, Natural Resources, and Environment
   András Vadas
2. From Avars and Slavs to the First Medieval Kingdoms in Central Europe: Population and Settlement, 700-1100
   Daniel Ziemann
3. The Central European States: From Monarchy to Ständestaat
   Julia Burkhardt
4. Government: Central and Local Administration
   János M. Bak and Suzana Miljan
5. Law and the Administration of Justice
   János M. Bak and Yuriy Zazuliak
6. Wars, Warfare, and Military Organization
   Attila Bárány
7. Cooperation and Conflict in Diplomacy and War within and around Central Europe
   Gerald Schwedler and Pawel Figurski, with contributions by László Veszprémy, Emir O. Filipovic, and Christian Raffensperger

PART II. SOCIETY AND ECONOMY

8. Changing Elites in Medieval Central Europe
   Cosmin Popa-Gorjanu
9. Locals and Immigrants in Medieval Central Europe
   Stefan Donecker
10. Gender and Family in Medieval Central Europe
    Michaela Antonín Malaníková, Witold Brzezinski, and Marija Mogorovic Crljenko
11. Rural Land Management in Medieval Central Europe
    Edit Sárosi
12. Cities and Towns in Medieval Central Europe
    Katalin Szende and Felicitas Schmieder
13. Mining, Finances, and Commerce in Medieval Central Europe
    Grzegorz Mysliwski and Balázs Nagy

PART III. CULTURE AND RELIGION

14. Cultural Landscapes: Education and Literature
    Farkas Gábor Kiss and Lucie Dolezalová
15. A History of Social Communication in East- Central Europe: Words, Scripts, and Beyond
    Anna Adamska
16. Art and Architecture in Medieval East Central Europe
    Béla Zsolt Szakács and Zoë Opacic
17. Contexts of Late Medieval Daily Life
    Gerhard Jaritz
18. Religious Practices (and Confessional Variants) in Medieval Central Europe
    Stanislava Kuzmová
19. The Papacy and the Region, Church Structure, and Clergy
    Agata Zielinska and Igor Razum
20. Jews in Medieval Central Europe
    Tamás Visi
21. 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

22. The Image of East Central Europe in Medieval European Literature
    Levente Seláf
23. Musical Culture in Medieval Central Europe
    Pawel Gancarczyk
24. The Middle Ages after the Middle Ages: Popular Traditions and Medievalism
    János M. Bak and Gábor Klaniczay

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Informations pratiques :

Oxford Handbook of Medieval Central Europe, dir. Nada Zecevic et Daniel Ziemann, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022 ; 1 vol., 632 p. ISBN : 978-0-19092-071-5. Prix : USD 165,00.

Source : Oxford University Press