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Medieval East Central Europe in a Comparative Perspective: From Frontier Zones to Lands in Focus
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Medieval East Central Europein a Comparative Perspective draws together the new perspectives concerning the relevance of East Central Europe for current historiography by placing the region in various comparative contexts. The chapters compare conditions within East Central Europe, as well as between East Central Europe, the rest of the continent, and beyond.Including 15 original chapters from an interdisciplinary team of contributors, this collection begins by posing the question: What is East Central Europe? with three specialists offering different interpretations and presenting new conclusions. The book is then grouped into five parts which examine political practice, religion, urban experience, and art and literature. The contributors question and explain the reasons for similarities and differences in governance and strategies for handling allies, enemies or subjects in particular ways. They point out themes and structures from town planning to religious orders that did not function according to political boundaries, and for which the inclusion of East Central European territories was systemic.The volume offers a new interpretation of medieval East Central Europe, beyond its traditional limits in space and time and beyond the established conceptual schemes. It will be essential reading for students and scholars of medieval East Central Europe.

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MEDIEVAL EAST CENTRAL EUROPE IN A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE

Including 15 original chapters from an interdisciplinary team of contributors, this collection begins by posing the question: What is East Central Europe? with three specialists offering different interpretations and presenting new conclusions. The book is then grouped into four parts that examine political practice, religion, urban experience, and art and literature. The contributors question and explain the reasons for similarities and differences in governance and strategies for handling allies, enemies or subjects in particular ways. They point out themes and structures from town planning to religious orders that did not function according to political boundaries, and for which the inclusion of East Central European territories was systemic.

The volume offers a new interpretation of medieval East Central Europe, beyond its traditional limits in space and time and beyond the established conceptual schemes. It will be essential reading for students and scholars of medieval East Central Europe.

Gerhard Jaritz is Professor of Medieval Studies at the Central European University, Hungary. His previous publications include Angels, Devils: The Supernatural and its Visual Representation (2011) and Images, Ritual and Daily Life. The Medieval Perspective (2012).

Katalin Szende is Associate Professor of Medieval Studies at the Central European University, Hungary. Her previous publications include Generations in Towns: Succession and Success in Pre-industrial Urban Societies (edited with F-E. Eliassen, 2009) and Segregation Integration Assimilation. Religious and Ethnic Groups in the Medieval Towns of Central and Eastern Europe (edited with D. Keene and B. Nagy, 2009).

MEDIEVAL EAST CENTRAL EUROPE IN A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE

From frontier zones to lands in focus

Edited by
Gerhard Jaritz and Katalin Szende

First published 2016

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Jaritz, Gerhard, 1949 editor. | Szende, Katalin, editor.

Title: Medieval East Central Europe in a comparative perspective : from frontier zones to lands in focus / edited by Gerhard Jaritz and Katalin Szende.

Description: New York, NY : Routledge, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015046269| ISBN 9781138923461 (hardback : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781138923478 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781315618876 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Europe, Central History To 1500. | Europe, Eastern History To 1500. | Civilization, Medieval. | Middle Ages.

Classification: LCC DAW1046 .M44 2016 | DDC 943.7/022 dc23

LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015046269

ISBN: 978-1-138-92346-1 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-138-92347-8 (pbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-61887-6 (ebk)

Typeset in Bembo and Stone Sans

by Florence Production Ltd, Stoodleigh, Devon, UK

CONTENTS

Gerhard Jaritz

PART I
What is East Central Europe?

Nora Berend

Mrta Font

Anna Kuznetsova

PART II
Political practices

Stefan Burkhardt

Julia Burkhardt

PART III
Religious space

Jzsef Laszlovszky

Beatrix F. Romhnyi

Johnny Grandjean Ggsig Jakobsen

PART IV
Urban space

Olha Kozubska-Andrusiv

Katalin Szende

Michaela Antonn Malankov

PART V
Art and literature

Bla Zsolt Szakcs

Anna Adamska

Julia Verkholantsev

Jnos M. Bak

Tables

Figures

Anna Adamska is affiliated scholar at the Department of History and Art History of Utrecht University. Her research focuses on medieval pragmatic literacy and communication and embraces forms and functions of charters, the social history of language, source criticism and methodology of Medieval Studies. She is also interested in the cultural and socio-religious history of East Central Europe.

Jnos M. Bak is Professor Emeritus of the University of British Columbia (Vancouver BC) and Central European University (Budapest). His main interests are legal and constitutional history of Central Europe as well as the conceptual problems of regional comparisons.

Nora Berend is Reader in European History at the University of Cambridge. Her recent publications include, with Przemysaw Urbaczyk and Przemysaw Wiszewski, Central Europe in the High Middle Ages, c. 900c. 1300, Cambridge, 2013. She is interested in interaction between religious communities, and the formation of identity.

Julia Burkhardt (ne Dcker) is post-doctoral researcher at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the History Department of Heidelberg University. Her research focuses on the political and cultural history of Medieval Central Europe, on monastic studies and critical text editions.

Stefan Burkhardt is Associate Professor at Heidelberg University and Research Fellow at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. His publications on Mediterranean and ecclesiastical history include Mediterranes Kaisertum und imperiale Ordnungen: Das lateinische Kaiserreich von Konstantinopel (2014) and Mit Stab und Schwert: Bilder, Trger und Funktionen erzbischflicher Herrschaft zur Zeit Kaiser Friedrich Barbarossas. Die Erzbistmer Kln und Mainz im Vergleich (2008).

Mrta Font is Professor of History and Head of the Department of Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Pcs (Hungary). Her research and publications focus on the political, social and cultural history of East Central Europe, particularly Hungary and the Kievan Rus from the tenth to thirteenth centuries. Her latest volume is

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