Central Europe in the High Middle Ages (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521781565)

This groundbreaking comparative history of the early centuries of Bohemia, Hungary and Poland sets the development of each polity in the context of the central European region as a whole. Focusing on the origins of the realms and their development in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the book concludes with the thirteenth century when significant changes in social and economic structures occurred. The book presents a series of thematic chapters on every aspect of the early history of the region covering political, religious, economic, social and cultural developments, including an investigation of origin myths that questions traditional national narratives. It also explores the ways in which west European patterns were appropriated and adapted through the local initiatives of rulers, nobles and ecclesiastics in central Europe. An ideal introduction to the essential themes in medieval central European history, the book sheds important new light on regional similarities and differences.

Author: Nora Berend, Przemyslaw Urbańczyk, Przemyslaw Wiszewski
ISBN-10: 0521781566
ISBN-13: 9780521781565
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/19/2013
Pages: 550
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.75lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.50w x 1.30d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 08/01/2014