Continuity and Change in Medieval East Central Europe

Social, Ruling and Religious Transformations

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360 Seiten

2024
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978-1-032-73323-4 (ISBN)

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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. Focusing on the historical regions of Bohemia, Hungary, Poland, and Lithuania, the book provides a comprehensive and comparative analysis of this transformative historical period. It gathers the latest perspectives from leading experts, offering nuanced insights into the interactions between power, religion, and social structures.

Featuring original chapters from an interdisciplinary team of contributors, this volume delves into specific aspects of medieval East Central Europe. It examines the "dark ages" around 900 AD, the territorial organization of the Piast monarchies, and the evolution of rulership in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Other topics include the changing social status of royal servants in Hungary, the role of church and state in societal changes, and the unique concept of twin cathedrals in ecclesiastical architecture. By providing comparative assessments, the book highlights the complex relationship between continuity and change, offering fresh perspectives on the political and cultural transformations that influenced the region's development.

Intended for historians and archaeologists interested in medieval societal changes, this volume is also essential for students in history, archaeology, and art history. By presenting cutting-edge research from various language areas and historical schools, the book makes advanced scholarship accessible to English-speaking readers. It serves the Anglophone academic market and engages experts and students within East Central Europe, offering a critical resource for understanding the medieval period's enduring impact on contemporary societies.

Dušan 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, 1000–1301 (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, 450–1450.

Introduction

1 Dušan 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 Hudáček

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 Thirteenth century)

6 Franciszek Dąbrowski

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

Recentering 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 Paweł Figurski

Gregory the Great (d. 604), Bishop Stanisław 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 Thirteenth–Fourteenth Centuries and the Hungarian Chronicle-Composition

Afterword

16 Florin Curta

Plus ça Change: A Fractal Afterword

Erscheinungsdatum	03.12.2024
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Medieval History and Culture
Zusatzinfo	15 Halftones, black and white; 15 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-032-73323-3 / 1032733233
ISBN-13	978-1-032-73323-4 / 9781032733234
Zustand	Neuware