Continuity and Change in Medieval East Central Europe

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.

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.

Introduction 1 Dušan Zupka Continuity and Change in Medieval East Central Europe: An Introduction Part 1 Early and High Medieval Transformations 2 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 2 Elites and Rulers 7 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 Culture 12 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 Afterword 16 Florin Curta Plus ça Change: A Fractal Afterword