This peer-reviewed series provides a forum for high-quality scholarly work - original monographs, article collections, editions of primary sources, translations - on the cultures, economies and societies of a vast area of Eastern Europe, from the fall of the Hunnic empire of Attila to the fall of Constantinople. A wide range of disciplines are included: all historical subjects, every branch of archaeology, language, art history and architecture, sculpture and numismatics, with focuses on regional variations and cultural identities, the interaction between internal and external factors, and the diversity of the local responses to external stimuli. The series may include translations from Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Bulgarian, or Russian works. As such, the series will advance the revision of old works either on the entire area or on certain sub-regions.
Brill, 2022. — 630 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, Volume 87) This book offers the first comprehensive study of Byzantine influence on the art and iconography of East Central Europe. Petr Balcárek focuses on the Byzantine cultural and religious legacy in the Czech lands, thereby bringing to light rarely seen images and presenting fresh...
Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2014. — 624 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450–1450. Vol. 27). — ISBN: 978-90-04-27829-5; ISBN: 978-90-04-28132-5. List of Illustrations. List of Tables. List of Contributors. Andrzej Buko - Looking Towards Bodzia: An Introduction. The Area of the Middle and Lower Vistula River Valley between the 10th–11th Centuries: Archaeology...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2008. — 541 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, vol. 1). This is the first academic book which concentrates on the discoveries of medieval date (6th- 13th centuries) from the territory of modern Poland. The book covers the principal research questions, such as the origins of the Slavs, societies of the proto-state...
Brill, 2020. — 386 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450–1450, vol. 61). In Mikulčice and Its Hinterland , Marek Hladík presents an archaeological model of social and economic relations in Great Moravia, which is built on an analysis of the settlement structure near one of the most significant centres of Great Moravia, the Mikulčice-Valy agglomeration....
Brill, 2021. — 298 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450. Vol. 70). This is a book about the archaeological sites of the 5th to 8th century of the Volga-Baltic watershed in the forest zone of Eastern Europe. The region has long been known for burial assemblages of the so-called culture of the Pskov long barrows, but the book brings to light a...
Brill, 2021. — 298 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450. Vol. 70). This is a book about the archaeological sites of the 5th to 8th century of the Volga-Baltic watershed in the forest zone of Eastern Europe. The region has long been known for burial assemblages of the so-called culture of the Pskov long barrows, but the book brings to light a...
Brill, 2019. — 272 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, v. 54). The excavated foundations of a ninth-century sacral building in the northeastern suburb of Pohansko, an important centre of Great Moravia, and especially the find of the nobleman’s grave H 153, has focused scholarly attention onto the nature of the Mojmirid state and the reasons...
Brill, 2022. — 532 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, Vol. 84). Transylvania has some of the most valuable monuments of medieval architecture in Europe. The oldest church was built in the 10th century, but most others came into being only after 1200. Later changes have considerably modified the appearance of still-standing buildings. Written...
Brill, 2017. — 416 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, Vol. 43). This book is devoted to the Old Rus' dress of the Upper Volga area, as gleaned from the archaeological evidence of the burial sites. The organic remains of dress and metal and glass ornaments and fasteners are considered. Issues such as the social status and age of the buried...
Brill, 2020. — 1110 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, vol. 59). This collection of studies is the result of a six-year interdisciplinary research project undertaken by an international team of archaeologists, historians, numismatists and paleobotanists. It constitutes a completely new approach to environmental, cultural and settlement changes...
Brill, 2020. — 332 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, vol. 58). The history of the Black Sea may be considered as alternating between an “inner lake,” when a single empire establishes control over the sea and its surrounding areas, and that of an open sea, in which various continental or maritime powers compete for the region’s resources. By...
Leiden – Boston: Brill, 2015. — 529 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450–1450 (32)). — ISBN 978-90-04-22661-6; 978-90-04-30454-3. In Avar-Age Polearms and Edged Weapons, Gergely Csiky offers a presentation of close combat weapons of a nomadic population that migrated from Inner Asia to East-Central Europe. During the late 6th – early 7th centuries, the...
The University of Michigan Press, 2005. — 400 pp. — ISBN: 978-0-472-11498-6. The first book in English to blend history and archaeology for a period of history currently receiving much scholarly attention, East Central and Eastern Europe in the Early Middle Ages examines key problems of the early medieval history of Eastern Europe, with particular reference to society, state,...
Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2008. — 492 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450–1450 (2)). — ISBN 978-90-04-16389-8. Most papers in this book were originally presented in three special sessions at the 40th and 42nd editions of the International Congress on Medieval Studies held at Kalamazoo in 2005 and 2007, respectively. The aim of these sessions was to...
Brill, 2021. — 530 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, Vol. 72). In The Long Sixth Century in Eastern Europe , Florin Curta offers a social and economic history of East Central, South-Eastern and Eastern Europe during the 6th and 7th centuries. It challenges the current model of transition from Antiquity to the early Middle Ages on the basis of...
Brill, 2021. — 531 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450–1450, vol. 72). In The Long Sixth Century in Eastern Europe, Florin Curta offers a social and economic history of East Central, South-Eastern and Eastern Europe during the 6th and 7th centuries. It challenges the current model of transition from Antiquity to the early Middle Ages on the basis of an...
Brill, 2018. — 388 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450; v. 50). The collection Migration, Integration and Connectivity on the Southeastern Frontier of the Carolingian Empire offers insights into the Carolingian southeastern frontier-zone from historical, art-historical and archaeological perspectives. Chapters in this volume discuss the...
Brill, 2024. — xiv, 488 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, vol. 90). At present, there is no scholarly consensus on the ecclesiastical organization in the Roman province of Scythia (4th-7th centuries). This volume proposes a new interpretation of some of the historical evidence concerning the evolution of the see of Tomi: a great metropolis,...
Brill, 2017. — 272 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, v. 42). In Mulieres suadentes - Persuasive Women , Martin Homza scrutinises the genesis of ruler ideology among the most prominent East Central and Eastern European dynasties from the early and later Middle Ages. At the center of attention are the Přemyslids, the Piasts, the Rurikids, and the...
Leiden – Boston: Brill, 2015. — 158 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450–1450. Vol. 34). — ISSN 1872-8103; ISBN 978-90-04-28490-6; ISBN 978-90-04-30589-2. Legenda Christiani and Modern Historiography focuses on the long history of the discussion over the authenticity of Legenda Christiani, a crucial text for the medieval history of the Czech lands....
Brill, 2018. — 252 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, vol. 51). In this book, Georgios Kardaras offers a global view of the contacts between the Byzantine Empire and the Avar Khaganate, emphasizing the reconstruction of these contacts after 626 (when, in contrast to archaeological evidence, written sources are very few) and the definition of the...
Brill, 2021. — 378 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, Volume 69). The Chronicle of the Priest of Duklja is considered to be among the most important and mysterious narrative sources discussing the Slavic presence on the Adriatic coast and its hinterland. It is also one of the most controversial. This detailed study examines the Latin version of...
Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2010. — 585 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450–1450, 10). — ISSN 1872-8103; ISBN 978-90-04-18208-0. This book is a contribution to efforts to understand the transformation that took place across the European continent, and in particular East Central Europe, during the second half of the first millennium. Its goal is to draw...
Brill, 2013. — 225 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, vol. 22). The current state of research on this contact area between Byzantium and East Central Europe during a troubled period invites a new synthesis of the most recent finds and interpretations. No such comprehensive work addressing both literary and archaeological evidence exists for the...
Brill, 2022. — 524 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450 (83)). Little is known about the Christianization of east-central and eastern Europe, due to the fragmentary nature of the historical record. Yet occasionally, unexpected archaeological discoveries can offer fresh angles and new insights. This volume presents such an example: the discovery of...
Brill, 2020. — 432 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, vol. 63). Focusing on visual sources and the cultural landscape, Kersti Markus offers a fresh perspective on the Baltic crusades in Visual Culture and Politics in the Baltic Sea Region, 1100-1250 . The book examines how visual propaganda was used by the Danish rulers as an instrument in...
Brill, 2022. — 410 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, Vol. 79). This book traces 150 years’ worth of scholarly interpretations of relations between Byzantium and various North Pontic nomads, with particular attention to how colonialist or national aspirations often triggered, hampered, biased, or otherwise influenced these interpretations....
Brill, 2023. — 628 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450 (89)). The book presents a new history of the Slavs during the Middle Ages. Based on in-depth source analysis, it describes on the one hand the 'factual' historical structures that can be discerned behind the phenomenon of 'the Slavs' - from the 'early Slavic' population groups and their first...
Brill, 2021. — 477 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages (450-1450) 74). In The Pechenegs: Nomads in the Political and Cultural Landscape of Medieval Europe, Aleksander Paroń offers a reflection on the history of the Pechenegs, a nomadic people which came to control the Black Sea steppe by the end of the ninth century. Nomadic peoples have often been...
Brill Academic Publishing, 2017. — 337 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, v. 48). In The Ottoman Threat and Crusading on the Eastern Border of Christendom during the Fifteenth Century Liviu Pilat and Ovidiu Cristea focus on less-known aspects of the later crusades in Eastern Europe, examining the ideals of holy war and political pragmatism. They...
Brill, 2020. — 274 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the middle ages, 450-1450, vol. 64). In the historiography of trade in the Middle Ages, there is a wide current of theoretical consideration referring to the ways contemporaries perceived trade. The present work pays specific attention to how trade functioned within the range of the influence of the Ottonian Empire and...
Brill, 2022. — 504 р. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, Volume 85/1). Religious figures of remembrance served to consolidate first dynastic rule and later nation-state legitimacy and community. This book explains the interweaving of (Eastern) Roman, medieval Serbian and Bulgarian contexts as well as Ottoman and Western European national discourses...
Brill, 2022. — 468 р. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450. Volume 85/2). Religious figures of remembrance served to consolidate first dynastic rule and later nation-state legitimacy and community. This book explains the interweaving of (Eastern) Roman, medieval Serbian and Bulgarian contexts as well as Ottoman and Western European national discourses...
Brill, 2020. — 204 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, v. 62). Bilingual Edition - English, Hungarian. In Pauline Economy in the Middle Ages ''The Spiritual Cannot Be Maintained Without The Temporal...'' Beatrix F. Romhányi examines the estate management of the Pauline order – the only religious community native to medieval Hungary. Sources on...
Brill, 2020. — 320 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, v. 65). Byzantium in Eastern European Visual Culture in the Late Middle Ages , edited by Maria Alessia Rossi and Alice Isabella Sullivan, engages with issues of cultural contact and patronage, as well as the transformation and appropriation of Byzantine artistic, theological, and political...
Brill, 2018. — 280 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, v. 52). The The Olsztyn Group in the Early Medieval Archaeology of the Baltic Region: The Cemetry at Leleszki deals with a much neglected problem of the archaeology of the early Middle Ages. Between the 5th and the 7th century, the region of the Mazurian Lakes in northeastern Poland witnessed...
Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2009. — 565 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450–1450 (6)). — ISSN 1872-8103; ISBN 978-90-04-17536-5. The author of the present volume aims to investigate the relationships between Romanians and nomadic Turkic groups (Pechenegs, Uzes, Cumans) in the southern half of Moldavia, north of the Danube Delta, between the tenth century...
Brill, 2019. — 310 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, v. 53). In The Slavic Dossier , Iurie Stamati’s objective is to understand the reasons for the emergence of two different discourses on the place of the Slavs on the territory of Moldova and their role in the genesis of Moldovans and their culture during the medieval period in the Soviet...
Brill, 2010. — 201 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, v. 8). This book is about Steppe Eurasia and China, Persia, Byzantium, as well as the 'Inside' and 'Outside' Other. This dual approach helps the reader to better understand the attitudes of the Steppe to both the southern sedentary empires (in this book, the 'Outside' Other) and to the women...
Brill, 2020. — 422 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450 (67)). In Craftsmen and Jewelers in the Middle and Lower Danube Region (6th to 7th Centuries) Daniela Tănase examines the practice of metalworking with the aim of comparing the archaeological evidence of different peoples in the Middle and Lower Danube in the Early Middle Ages, with a...
Leiden; Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2015. — 352 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450–1450. Vol. 33). This book offer a biography of a key East Central European ruler, Vladislaus Henry, who ruled the Margraviate of Moravia from 1198 to 1222 and, in cooperation with his brother, King Přemysl Otakar I of Bohemia, was involved in the transformation...
Leiden – Boston: Brill, 2016. — 432 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450–1450 (35)). — ISSN 1872-8103; ISBN 978-90-04-21437-8; ISBN: 978-90-04-30611-0. The Jayhānī tradition contains the most detailed description of the Magyars/Hungarians before the Conquest of the Carpathian Basin (895). Unfortunately, the book itself was lost and it can only be...
Brill, 2024. — 406 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, Vol. 93). This volume is a unique publication as it examines the Marxist attitudes in East Central European historiography and archaeology for the first time, with an emphasis on the co-existence of Marxist and other methodologies between the 1950s and 1970s in the local historiographies in...
Brill, 2021. — 492 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, Vol. 71). This book deals with the Rus annals ( letopisi) and with a variety of related texts concerning the historical past. A new typology of those texts is introduced, together with a comprehensive discussion of how the writing of history came into being in Rus between c.1000 and c.1050....
Brill, 2022. — 268 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, Volume 81). The objective of this book is to identify the narrative strategy and chronology applied in The Chronicle of Halych-Volhynia, and to consider whether this source was intended to form part of a historical collection from the beginning. From the early 13th century in Rus’,...
Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2012. — viii; 322 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450–1450, Volume 20). — ISBN: 978-90-04-22666-1 — ISBN: 978-90-04-23643-1. The inclusion of the Black Sea basin into the long-distance trade network – with its two axes of the Silk Road through the Golden Horde (Urgench-Sarai-Tana/Caffa) and the Spice Road through the Ilkhanate...
Brill, 2024. — 371 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450 95). This book focuses on Volga Bulgaria (10th to early 13th centuries), the only Muslim state in Eastern Europe before 1300. For several centuries, it operated as a bridge between the Christian West and the Muslim East. As such, it is widely believed that the colossal transit of oriental...
Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2015. — 335 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450–1450. Vol. 30). In Khazaria in the Ninth and the Tenth Centuries Boris Zhivkov offers a new view on Khazaria by scrutinizing the different visions offered by recent scholarship. The paucity of written sources has made it necessary to turn to additional information about the steppe...
Brill, 2024. — 304 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, Vol. 94). This volume presents a new picture of marriage in medieval Poland. Based on the analysis of historical documents from the ecclesiastical courts of one of the oldest dioceses in Poland, this book sheds light on the presence and prevalence of a wide range of marital problems in the...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2011. — 467 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, Vol. 18). This study presents a systematic analysis of the huge, and in most cases, completely new archaeological evidence for amber from Lithuania and the surrounding regions. A comprehensive synthesis of archaeological evidence and written sources provides an opportunity...
Brill, 2010. — 267 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, Vol. 13). — ISBN 9789004180093. The emergence of the Bohemian state is a long-discussed topic with many obscure points. Though significant progress has been reached in recent decades, the interpretations proposed are far from satisfactory. Important new information is still awaiting inclusion...
Brill, 2021. — 363 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450 (75)). This volume offers a history of historiography, as Roumen Daskalov presents a critical analysis of Bulgarian historiographical views of the Middle Ages to reveal their embeddedness in their historical context and their adaptation to the contemporary circumstances. The study traces the...
Brill, 2010. — 272 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, 12). — ISBN: 9789004186460. Late antique identities from the Western Balkans were transformed into new, Slavic identities after c. 600 AD. It was a process that is still having continuous impact on the discursive constructions of ethnic and regional identities in the area. Building on the new...
Brill Academic Pub, 2024. — xii, 439 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, 92). The aim of this book is to introduce the reader to the organization of medieval Prague up to the early 15th century with a focus on the first two essential phases of agglomeration development: early urban and post-charted. Prague was a so-called “multi-part town”,...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2011. — 567 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, v. 17). 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...
Brill, 2018. — 736 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, v.49). The Economy of Medieval Hungary is the first concise, English-language volume about the economic life of medieval Hungary. It is a product of the cooperation of specialists representing various disciplines of medieval studies, including archaeologists, archaeozoologists, specialists in...
Brill, 2016. — 368 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, v. 41). In The Asanids. The Political and Military History of the Second Bulgarian Empire (1185-1280) , Alexandru Madgearu offers the first comprehensive history in English of a state which played a major role in the evolution of the Balkan region during Middle Ages. This state emerged from...
Brill, 2022. — 572 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, vol. 80). This book analyses the role of women in the Polish Piast dynasty from c. 965 to c.1144. It discusses gender expectations and the literary topoi employed to describe rulers’ wives and daughters as well as showing their importance in religious donations, the creation of dynastic...
Brill, 2019. — 476 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, Vol. 55). This book is a revisionist account of Samuel’s State and the legendary struggle between Samuel Cometopoulos and Basil II (10th-11th century). It goes beyond the standard approach to the study of state formation, presenting an entirely new analytical framework which interrogates how...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2017. — 373 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450 (40)). Power and Exploitation in the Czech Lands in the 10th-12th Centuries: A Central European Perspective offers a unique analysis of the history of early medieval Czech society. It draws new attention to the role of serfdom and slavery in the early period of the Pemyslid...
Brill, 2019. — 364 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, Vol. 56). In this book, Ondřej Schmidt offers a critical biography of John of Moravia, illegitimate son of the Moravian Margrave John Henry from the Luxembourg dynasty. Earlier research has confused John with another son of the Margrave, but here, the author argues that John actually became...
Brill, 2020. — 682 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, Vol. 68). How and when a west Slavic principality centred on Nitra originated in the middle Danube is a key question of medieval East Central Europe. In this book, Ján Steinhübel reconstructs the origins, history and expansion of this Nitrian Principality. Based on contemporary sources and...
Brill, 2018. — 344 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, 47). Bulgarians by Birth is a collection of sources concerning the revolt of the Comitopuls and the Empire of Samuel, as well as the war between Bulgaria and Byzantium in the late 10th and early 11th century. Each source is accompanied by an extensive commentary. It is the first collection of...
Brill, 2021. — 357 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450–1450, Vol. 76). This book presents a collective portrait of the inhabitants of Árpádian- and Angevin-era Hungary identified by their countrymen as Rutheni. Many members of this group hailed from the lands of Halych, Chernihiv, Kyiv, and Volhynia, and migrated to Hungary under the pressure of...
Brill, 2016. — 236 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, v. 39). In Rituals and Symbolic Communication in Medieval Hungary under the Árpád Dynasty (1000 - 1301) Dušan Zupka examines rituals as means of political and symbolic communication in medieval Central Europe, with a special emphasis on the rulers of the Árpád dynasty in the Kingdom of...
Brill, 2022. — 422 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, Vol. 82). Rituals and ceremonies played a significant role in medieval society by both establishing continuity with previous generations and their legacy, and temporarily allowing individuals to step out of their everyday routine. This is true for local communities, villages, convents,...
Leiden-Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2010. — 488 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450 (Book 11).
The book deals with the Slovene historiography and history of the Slovene and neighbouring territories in the Middle Ages. It is the first work of its kind published in English. It thus makes the medieval history of this part of Europe and some of...
Brill, 2022. — 850 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, Vol. 86). The artistic and literary maze of Latin-occupied Greece cannot be analysed by a conventional approach. Follow the author and the historical protagonists of his tales in a journey through a fragmentary shape-shifting corpus, from the medieval translations of Aristotle to pornographic...
Brill, 2017. — 276 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, Volume 45). In Chosen Places: Constructing New Jerusalems in Slavia Orthodoxa , Jelena Erdeljan focuses on the Old Testament topic of the divinely-chosen status of Jerusalem and translatio Hierosolymi, including the history, process and media of formulating and disseminating this idea and its...
Brill, 2022. — 392 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, Vol. 88). Inside Christian churches, natural light has long been harnessed to underscore theological, symbolic, and ideological statements. In this volume, twenty-four international scholars with various specialties explore how the study of sunlight can reveal essential aspects of the design,...
Brill, 2019. — 382 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, vol. 57). The French president Charles de Gaulle spoke of a Europe "from the Atlantic to the Urals". Europe was spatially formed with these topographic parameters from the late 10th century onwards, with the massive Christianization of its inhabitants. At that time, however, all three...
Brill, 2020. — 452 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, 60). In this volume, Stanisław Rosik focuses on the meaning and significance of Old Slavic religion as presented in three German chronicles (the works of Thietmar of Merseburg, Adam of Bremen, Helmold of Bosau) written during the time of the Christianization of the Western Slavs. The source...
Edited by Stephen W. Reinert. — Brill, 2017. — 492 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450 (46)). Originally published in French in 2004, Matei Cazacu’s Dracula remains the most authoritative scholarly biography of the Wallachian prince Vlad III the Impaler (1448, 1456-1462, 1476). Its core is an exhaustively researched reconstruction of Dracula’s...
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