Fall of Great Moravia

Jiří Macháček is Professor of Medieval Archaeology and the Head of the Department of Archaeology and Museology at Masaryk University, Brno . He has published on medieval archaeology and computer applications on archaeology.Martin Wihoda is Professor of Medieval History at Masaryk University, Brno. His research is focused on eastern Europe in the early and high Middle Ages.

• PrefaceList of IllustrationsAbbreviationsNotes on Contributors1 The Great Moravian Rotunda at Pohansko and an Osteobiographical Profile of Its FounderJiří Macháček and Vladimír Sládek2 The Austrian Danube Region in the Decades Around 900Roman Zehetmayer3 The Magyars and Their Contribution to the Collapse and Fall of Great Moravia or Allies, Neighbours, EnemiesPavel Kouřil4 The Second Life of the Mojmirid DukesMartin Wihoda5 Graves, Churches, Culture and Texts: The Processes of Christianisation in the Early Middle Ages and Their Social and Cultural ContextDavid Kalhous6 “Founder Tombs” in Early Medieval Carantania: A SurveyStefan Eichert7 Great Moravia, the Beginnings of Přemyslid Bohemia and the Problem of Cultural ChangeIvo Štefan8 Conclusion: Who Was the Man Buried in Grave H153 in Pohansko and What Happened to Him and His Family at the End of Great Moravia?Jiří MacháčekBibliographyIndex

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