Governance of a Distant Province in the Middle Ages : : Case Study on Upper Lusatia / / Krzysztof Fokt.

Governance of outlying provinces of the early and high medieval polities was never a favorite topic for either medieval chronicles or modern medievalists. The book "Governance of a Distant Province in the Middle Ages: Case Study on Upper Lusatia" by Krzysztof Fokt aims at exploring this pr...

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Place / Publishing House:Warsaw ;, Berlin : : De Gruyter Open Poland, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Conventions of writing proper names
  • 1 A distant province as a challenge: an extreme case study on Upper Lusatia
  • 2 The borderland is born: short but turbulent history of the Milčane and the Besunzane
  • 3 On the fringe of the Empire: Milsko (Upper Lusatia) in the web of political and military interactions (ca. 987/990-1156)
  • 4 The structural framework of governance
  • 5 Local infrastructure of governance: behind and besides the ramparts of ringforts
  • 6 A remote province: a chance, a challenge or a burden?
  • 7 Appendices
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Bibliography
  • Summaries
  • List of Tables
  • List of Figures
  • Index