Continuity and Change in Medieval East Central Europe

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.

• Introduction1 Dušan ZupkaContinuity and Change in Medieval East Central Europe: An IntroductionPart 1Early and High Medieval Transformations2 Daniel ZiemannDark Ages in Central Europe? – The period around 900 A.D. as a turning point3 Ágnes RitoókMosaburg – Zalavár: Changing Forms of Continuity4 Piotr Pranke“Power Networks” and the State – how Was the first Piast State Created?5 Pavol HudáčekFrom 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 DąbrowskiTerritorial Organisation of the Piast Monarchies in 10th-13th Centuries: Factors of Continuity, Factors of Change, Change of Historiography ConceptsPart 2Elites and Rulers7 Christian RaffenspergerRecentring Medieval Europe: Making the Periphery Central8 Yanina RyierFrom 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 Century9 Cosmin Popa-GorjanuContinuity and Change in the History of Elites in Medieval Hungary: The Nobility and the Knezes10 Paweł FigurskiPope Gregory the Great (d. 604), Bishop Stanisław of Cracow (d. 1079), and the Unbound Rhinoceros11 Attila BárányKing Andrew II of Hungary's Crusade in 1217: New InsightsPart 3 Church and Culture12 Beatrix F. RomhányiPopulation and Church Organisation in the Carpathian Basin between the Foundation of the Kingdom of Hungary and the Mongol Invasion (1000–1241)13 Béla Zsolt SzakácsDouble Cathedrals and Church Families in Medieval East Central Europe14 Anna AdamskaContinuity and Change in Studying East Central European Literacy15 Gábor BarabásA Series of Unfortunate Papal Legates: Papal Interventions in Hungary at the Turn of the 13th–Fourteenth Centuries and the Hungarian Chronicle-CompositionAfterword16 Florin CurtaPlus ça Change: A Fractal Afterword