Continuity and Change in Medieval East Central Europe

Auteur

Duan Zupka is an Associate Professor of History at Comenius University in Bratislava. His previous publications include Ritual and Symbolic Communication in Medieval Hungary under the Árpád Dynasty, 10001301 (2016). He co-edited several collective volumes including Rulership in Medieval East Central Europe. Power, Rituals and Legitimacy in Bohemia, Hungary and Poland (2021) and Marxism and Medieval Studies. Marxist Historiography in East Central Europe (2023). He is co-editor of the Brill series East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 4501450.

Résumé
Continuity and Change in Medieval East Central Europe explores the crucial societal, political, and cultural dynamics that defined medieval East Central Europe during the early and high Middle Ages.

Contenu

Introduction

1 Duan Zupka

Continuity and Change in Medieval East Central Europe: An Introduction

Part 1

Early and High Medieval Transformations

2 Daniel Ziemann

Dark Ages in Central Europe? - The period around 900 A.D. as a turning point

3 Ágnes Ritoók

Mosaburg - Zalavár: Changing Forms of Continuity

4 Piotr Pranke

"Power Networks" and the State - how Was the first Piast State Created?

5 Pavol Hudá ek

From Royal Populi to Filii Iobagionum (the Change in the Social Position of "Royal Servants" to "Conditional Nobles" in the Region of Liptov in the 13th Century)

6 Franciszek D browski

Territorial Organisation of the Piast Monarchies in 10th-13th Centuries: Factors of Continuity, Factors of Change, Change of Historiography Concepts

Part 2

Elites and Rulers

7 Christian Raffensperger

Recentring Medieval Europe: Making the Periphery Central

8 Yanina Ryier

From a Chief to Grand Duke: Evolution of a Ruler`s Role and Functions in the Forming of Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the Mid-13th to the Mid-14th Century

9 Cosmin Popa-Gorjanu

Continuity and Change in the History of Elites in Medieval Hungary: The Nobility and the Knezes

10 Pawe Figurski

Pope Gregory the Great (d. 604), Bishop Stanis aw of Cracow (d. 1079), and the Unbound Rhinoceros

11 Attila Bárány

King Andrew II of Hungary's Crusade in 1217: New Insights

Part 3

Church and Culture

12 Beatrix F. Romhányi

Population and Church Organisation in the Carpathian Basin between the Foundation of the Kingdom of Hungary and the Mongol Invasion (1000-1241)

13 Béla Zsolt Szakács

Double Cathedrals and Church Families in Medieval East Central Europe

14 Anna Adamska

Continuity and Change in Studying East Central European Literacy

15 Gábor Barabás

A Series of Unfortunate Papal Legates: Papal Interventions in Hungary at the Turn of the 13th-Fourteenth Centuries and the Hungarian Chronicle-Composition

Afterword

16 Florin Curta

Plus ça Change: A Fractal Afterword