Central Europe in the High Middle Ages

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

Autorentext
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.1000c.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.950c.1200 (as editor, Cambridge University Press, 2007).Przemysaw Urbaczyk is Professor at the Cardinal Wyszyski University in Warsaw and in the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences. He specializes in the medieval archaeology and history of Poland, East Central Europe, Scandinavia and the North Atlantic islands. His previous publications include Zdobywcy pónocnego Atlantyku (Conquerors of the North Atlantic) (2004) and Trudne pocztki Polski (Difficult Origins of Poland) (2008) which won the Klio prize for best history book of the year.Przemysaw Wiszewski is Professor at the University of Wrocaw, Department of Historical and Pedagogical Sciences. He specialises in comparative regional history, with a special emphasis on borderlands, from the tenth to the twentieth centuries. His previous publications include Domus Bolezlai: Values and Social Identity in Dynastic Traditions of Medieval Poland, c.9661138) (2010), the Polish edition of which was honoured with the Prize of the Ministry of Science.

Zusammenfassung
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.

Inhalt
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.

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