Florin Curta - The Routledge Handbook of East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500-1300

The Routledge Handbook of East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 5001300 is the first of its kind to provide a point of reference for the history of the whole of Eastern Europe during the Middle Ages.

While historians have recognized the importance of integrating the eastern part of the European continent into surveys of the Middle Ages, few have actually paid attention to the region, its specific features, problems of chronology and historiography. This vast region represents more than two-thirds of the European continent, but its history in generaland its medieval history in particularis poorly known. This book covers the history of the whole region, from the Balkans to the Carpathian Basin, and the Bohemian Forest to the Finnish Bay. It provides an overview of the current state of research and a route map for navigating an abundant historiography available in more than ten different languages. Chapters cover topics as diverse as religion, architecture, art, state formation, migration, law, trade and the experiences of women and children.

This book is an essential reference for scholars and students of medieval history, as well as those interested in the history of Central and Eastern Europe.

Florin Curta is Professor of Medieval History and Archaeology at the University of Florida, USA. His books include Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 5001250 (2006); The Making of the Slavs: History and Archaeology of the Lower Danube, ca. 500700 (2011), which received the Herbert Baxter Adams Award of the American Historical Association; The Edinburgh History of the Greeks, c. 500 to 1050: The Early Middle Ages (2011); Slavs in the Making: History, Linguistics and Archaeology in Eastern Europe (c. 500 to c. 700) (2021); and The Long Sixth Century in Eastern Europe (2021).

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Edited by Florin Curta

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Names: Curta, Florin, editor.

Title: The Routledge handbook of East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500-1300 / edited by Florin Curta.

Description: New York: Routledge, 2021. |

Series: Routledge history handbooks | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2021024519 (print) | LCCN 2021024520 (ebook) | ISBN 9780367226558 (hardback) | ISBN 9781032127828 (paperback) | ISBN 9780429276217 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Europe, CentralHistoryTo 1500. | Europe, EasternHistoryTo 1500. | Civilization, Medieval.

Classification: LCC DAW1046 .R68 2021 (print) |

LCC DAW1046 (ebook) | DDC 943.7/022dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021024519

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021024520

ISBN: 978-0-367-22655-8 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-032-12782-8 (pbk)

ISBN: 978-0-429-27621-7 (ebk)

DOI: 10.4324/9780429276217

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Florin Curta

Christian Raffensperger

Danijel Dino

Evgenia Komatarova-Balinova

Aleksander Paro

Maddalena Betti

Ivo tefan

David Kalhous

Hajnalka Herold

Cosmin Popa-Gorjanu

Duan Zupka

Adrien Quret-Podesta

Marek Hladk

Dariusz Adamczyk

Laureniu Rdvan

Cameron Sutt

Sbastien Rossignol

Boris Stojkovski

Dariusz Andrzej Sikorski

Pawe Figurski and Grzegorz Pac

Kiri Marinow, Jan Mikoaj Wolski

Aleksandar Uzelac

Gregory Leighton

Mirjana Matijevi Sokol

Ivan AlexandrovBiliarsky

Timofei V. Guimon and Aleksei S. Shchavelev

Stefan Rohdewald

Alice Isabella Sullivan

Maria Alessia Rossi

Francesco DallAglio

Roman Hautala

1. Dariusz Adamczyk is Assistant Professor of Eastern European History at the Leibniz University in Hannover and researcher at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw, currently working on a project about the history of monetization and the political economy of state building in the Middle Ages. He is the author of Silber und Macht. Fernhandel, Tribute und die piastische Herrschaftsbildung in nordosteuropischer Perspektive (8001100) (Harrassowitz, 2014) and Monetarisierungsmomente, Kommerzialisierungszonen oder fiskalische Whrungslandschaften? Edelmetalle, Silberverteilungsnetzwerke und Gesellschaften in Ostmitteleuropa 8001200 (Harrassowitz, 2020). Adamczyk is the co-editor of two collections of studies entitled Fernhndler, Dynasten, Kleriker. Die piastische Herrschaft in sozialen und kontinentalen Beziehungsgeflechten vom 10. bis zum frhen 13. Jahrhundert (Harrassowitz, 2015) and Monetisation and Commercialisation in the Baltic Sea, 10501450 (Routledge, 2021).

1. Maddalena Betti earned her Ph.D. in History from the University of Padova (2008). Her dissertation was published as The Making of Christian Moravia (858882). Papal Power and Political Reality (Brill, 2014). Her research focuses on the eastern borderlands of the Carolingian Empire and on the Christianization of Central Europe in the 9th century. She also works on the history of the papacy and the history of Rome from the 8th to the 10th century. She is currently a research fellow at the University Ca Foscari in Venice.