Medieval East Central Europe in a comparative perspective :  from frontier zones to lands in focus / 
edited by Gerhard Jaritz and Katalin Szende. 
 - xiv, 265 pages :  illustrations, maps ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction / Gerhard Jaritz -- Part I. What is East Central Europe? -- The mirage of East Central Europe: historical regions in a comparative perspective / Nora Berend -- The emergence of East Central Europe and approaches to internal differentiation / Márta Font -- The notion of "Central Europe" in Russian historical scholarship / Anna Kuznetsova -- Part II. Political practices -- Between empires: South-Eastern Europe and the two Roman Empires in the Middle Ages / Stefan Burkhardt -- Negotiating realms: political representation in late Medieval Poland, Hungary, and the Holy Roman Empire / Julia Burkhardt -- Part III. Religious space -- Mendicant networks and population in a European perspective / Beatrix F. Romhányi -- Friars preachers in frontier provinces of Medieval Europe / Johnny Grandjean Gřgsig Jakobsen -- Part IV. Urban space -- Comparable aspects in urban development: Kievan Rus' and the European Middle Ages / Olha Kozubska-Andrusiv -- Town foundations in East Central Europe and the new world: the use of the grid plan in a comparative perspective / Katalin Szende -- Female engagement in Medieval urban economy: late-Medieval Moravia in a comparative perspective / Michaela Antonín Malaníková -- Part V. Art and literature -- The place of East Central Europe on the map of Romanesque architecture / Béla Zsolt Szakács -- Intersections: Medieval East Central Europe from the perspective of literacy and communication / Anna Adamska -- Etymological argumentation as a category of historiographic thought in historical writings of Bohemia, Poland, and Hungary / Julia Verkholantsev -- What did we learn? What is to be done? Some insights and visions after reading this book / János M. Bak. 
<br/><br/> "Medieval East Central Europe in 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 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"-- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781138923461 113892346X 9781138923478 1138923478 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2015046269 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>Deutsches Auslandswissenschaftliches Institut Abteilung Ostmitteleuropa 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Chronological Terms: </label><br/>To 1500 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Civilization, Medieval.<br/>Middle Ages.<br/>Civilization, Medieval.<br/>Middle Ages.<br/>Kulturkontakt
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Europe, Central--History--To 1500.<br/>Europe, Eastern--History--To 1500.<br/>Europe, Central.<br/>Europe, Eastern.<br/>Europe du Centre-Est--Moyen âge.<br/>Europe centrale.<br/>Europe orientale.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DAW1046  / .M44 2016 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>943.7/022