Nora Berend (University of Cambridge), Przemyslaw Urbanczyk (Polish Academy of Sciences), Przemyslaw Wiszewski (Poland Uniwersytet Wroclawski)

Central Europe in the High Middle Ages

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A groundbreaking comparative history of the formation of Bohemia, Hungary and Poland, from their origins in the eleventh century.

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Addressing every aspect of the early history of Central Europe, this book explores the formation and early centuries of Bohemia, Hungary and Poland. The authors highlight the specifics of the history of each polity, whilst drawing out similarities and parallels in the region's political, religious, economic, social and cultural developments.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Medieval Textbooks
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 550
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 682g
• ISBN-13: 9780521786959
• ISBN-10: 0521786959
• Artikelnr.: 38612058

Autorenporträt

Nora Berend is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge. Her previous publications include At the Gate of Christendom: Jews, Muslims and 'Pagans' in Medieval Hungary, c.1000-c.1300 (Cambridge University Press, 2001) for which she received the Royal Historical Society's Gladstone Prize in 2002, and Christianization and the Rise of Christian Monarchy: Central Europe, Scandinavia and Rus', c.950-c.1200 (as editor, Cambridge University Press, 2007).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction; 2. The history of the region and the question of origins; 3. The formation of polities and Christianization; 4. Political life and government c.1050-c.1200; 5. Society and the economy, eleventh-twelfth centuries; 6. Ecclesiastical history, eleventh-thirteenth centuries; 7. New developments of the thirteenth century; Select bibliography.

Rezensionen

'This welcome synthesis provides an up to-date history of the High Middle Ages in a region that is too little-known and understood in the Anglophone world. ... This volume, enhanced by three maps, is sure to become the standard in English. Summing up: essential. All levels/libraries.' P. W. Knoll, Choice