Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages (500-1300) / / by Florin Curta.

• VerfasserIn: Curta, Florin,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2019]
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Companions to European History 19.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1,426 pages).

This book provides a comprehensive synthesis of scholarship on Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages. The goal is to offer an overview of the current state of research and a basic route map for navigating an abundant historiography available in more than 10 different languages. The literature published...

Table of Contents

• Front Matter
• Copyright page
• Dedication
• Acknowledgments
• Illustrations
• Concepts and Problems
• Written and Archaeological Sources
• The Last Century of Roman Power (ca. 500 to circa 620)
• East European Dark Ages: Slavs and Avars (500–800)
• Migrations—Real and Imagined: Croats, Serbs, and Bulgars (600–800)
• Early Medieval Bulgaria (680–850)
• The West in the East (800–900)
• Great Moravia
• Steppe Empires? The Khazars and the Volga Bulgars
• Oghuz, Pechenegs, and Cumans: Nomads of Medieval Eastern Europe?
• Conversion to Christianity: Moravia and Bulgaria
• The Long 10th Century of Bulgaria
• New Migrations: Magyars and Vikings
• The Rise of Rus’
• Byzantium in the Balkans (800–1100)
• The Western Balkans in the High Middle Ages (900–1200)
• New Powers (I): Piast Poland
• New Powers (II): Arpadian Hungary
• New Powers (III): Přemyslid Bohemia
• Population: Size, Health, Migration
• Rural and Urban Economy
• Social Organization
• The Construct of a Tyrant: Feudalism in Eastern Europe
• The Church: Ecclesiastical Organization and Monasticism
• The Faith: Religious Practices, Popular Religion, and Heresy
• The First Five Crusades and Eastern Europe
• Crusades in Eastern Europe
• Literacy and Literature
• Monumental Art
• The Rise of Serbia
• The Second Bulgarian Empire
• Catastrophe, Pax Mongolica, and Globalization
• Back Matter
• Bibliography
• Index.