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Continuity and Change in Medieval East Central Europe explores the crucial societal, political, and cultural dynamics that defined medieval East Central Europe during the early and high Middle Ages.
List of contents
Introduction1 Dušan Zupka
Continuity and Change in Medieval East Central Europe: An Introduction
Part 1Early and High Medieval Transformations2 Daniel Ziemann
Dark Ages in Central Europe? - The period around 900 A.D. as a turning point
3 Ágnes Ritoók
Mosaburg - Zalavár: Changing Forms of Continuity
4 Piotr Pranke
"Power Networks" and the State - how Was the first Piast State Created?
5 Pavol Hudá¿ek
From Royal
Populi to
Filii Iobagionum (the Change in the Social Position of "Royal Servants" to "Conditional Nobles" in the Region of Liptov in the 13th Century)
6 Franciszek D¿browski
Territorial Organisation of the Piast Monarchies in 10th-13th Centuries: Factors of Continuity, Factors of Change, Change of Historiography Concepts
Part 2Elites and Rulers7 Christian Raffensperger
Recentring Medieval Europe: Making the Periphery Central
8 Yanina Ryier
From a Chief to Grand Duke: Evolution of a Ruler`s Role and Functions in the Forming of Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the Mid-13th to the Mid-14th Century
9 Cosmin Popa-Gorjanu
Continuity and Change in the History of Elites in Medieval Hungary: The Nobility and the Knezes
10 Pawe¿ Figurski
Pope Gregory the Great (d. 604), Bishop Stanis¿aw of Cracow (d. 1079), and the Unbound Rhinoceros
11 Attila Bárány
King Andrew II of Hungary's Crusade in 1217: New Insights
Part 3 Church and Culture12 Beatrix F. Romhányi
Population and Church Organisation in the Carpathian Basin between the Foundation of the Kingdom of Hungary and the Mongol Invasion (1000-1241)
13 Béla Zsolt Szakács
Double Cathedrals and Church Families in Medieval East Central Europe
14 Anna Adamska
Continuity and Change in Studying East Central European Literacy
15 Gábor Barabás
A Series of Unfortunate Papal Legates: Papal Interventions in Hungary at the Turn of the 13th-Fourteenth Centuries and the Hungarian Chronicle-Composition
Afterword16 Florin Curta
Plus ça Change: A Fractal Afterword
About the author
Dušan Zupka is an Associate Professor of History at Comenius University in Bratislava. His previous publications include
Ritual and Symbolic Communication in Medieval Hungary under the Árpád Dynasty, 1000-1301 (2016). He co-edited several collective volumes including
Rulership in Medieval East Central Europe. Power, Rituals and Legitimacy in Bohemia, Hungary and Poland (2021) and
Marxism and Medieval Studies. Marxist Historiography in East Central Europe (2023). He is co-editor of the Brill series
East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450.
Summary
Continuity and Change in Medieval East Central Europe explores the crucial societal, political, and cultural dynamics that defined medieval East Central Europe during the early and high Middle Ages.
