The Emergence of the Nobility in East Central Europe between the Eighth and Thirteenth Centuries (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781032948775)

Robert Antonín is a professor of medieval history at the Department of History of the Faculty of Arts, the University of Ostrava (Czech Republic), where he has also been the dean since 2018. His long-term research interests focus on the issues of political, social, economic and cultural development of Central Europe during High Middle Ages and on the topics related to the limits of interpretation of (not only) medieval historiography. He is the author of several monographs, including The Ideal Ruler in Medieval Bohemia (2017); numerous research articles on medieval history and the main editor of the collective monograph The Fourth Lateran Council and the Czech Lands in 13th and 14th Centuries (2020).

Jiří Macháček is a professor at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic. He specialises in medieval archaeology, archaeological methods and computer applications in archaeology. His work has been published in international journals such as the Journal of Archaeological Science, the Journal of World Prehistory, Medieval Archaeology, and the Praehistorische Zeitschrift, as well as by publishing houses including Brill, Leiden-Boston; Habelt, Bonn; and BAR Publishing, Oxford. He studied archaeology at universities in Brno, Bamberg and Vienna. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Bamberg and a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Frankfurt am Main and Göttingen.