The Czech lands in medieval transformation / / Jan Klápště ; translated by Sean Mark Miller and Kateřina Millerová ; edited by Philadelphia Ricketts.

• Superior document: East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, v. 17
• Author: Klápště, Jan.
• TeilnehmendeR: Ricketts, Philadelphia.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450 ; 17.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (566 p.)
• Notes: Translated from the Czech.

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 a system of innovations already evolved in West Central Europe. The main topics analysed are the onset of landed nobility, the transformation of the rural milieu, and the early history of towns. This analysis draws on every source category, including written testimony, archaeological findings, and architectural monuments. Inspired by microhistorical methodology, it does not indulge in general schemes but studies carefully chosen samples of the transformation and its natural differentiations. Winner of the 2012 Book Prize of the Early Slavic Studies Association.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Jan Klápště -- Chapter One The Middle Ages—Distant and Close / Jan Klápště -- Chapter Two Transforming the Might of the Mighty / Jan Klápště -- Chapter Three The Frail Certainties of the Rural Milieu / Jan Klápště -- Chapter Four The Long Journey to the Town / Jan Klápště -- Chapter Five Change in Change / Jan Klápště -- Bibliography / Jan Klápště -- Index / Jan Klápště.