Middle Ages between the Eastern Alps and the Northern Adriatic

Peter Štih, Ph.D. (1993) in History, University of Ljubljana, is Professor of Medieval History and Auxiliary Historical Sciences at the same university; he is an Associate Member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (2007) and Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (2008). He has published several books and articles on the medieval history of the Alpine-Adriatic region.

• Abbreviations ...viiConcordance List of Slovene Place Names in German and Italian ...xiList of First Publications ...xixList of Illustrations ...xxiPreface ...xxiiiIntroduction ...1Part One: The Middle Ages, Slovene Historiography, and the National Formation of the SlovenesI. On Nationalised History, Myths and Stereotypes ... 9II. Theories of Indigeneity and their Like among the Slovenes ...38III. On the Modern (Mis)Understanding of Old History in the Case of the Enthronement of the Carinthian Dukes ...56IV. A Plea for a Different View of Ancient Slovene History...71Part Two: From the Slavic Settlement to the End of Frankish RuleV. Wiped out by the Slavic Settlement? The Issue of Continuity between Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages in the Slovene Area ...87VI. The Alpine Slavs and their Neighbours: From Confrontation to Integration ...100VII. The Carantanians – an Early Medieval Slavic Gens between East and West ...108VIII. Carniola, Patria Sclavorum ...123IX. Structures of the Slovene Territory in the Early Middle Ages ...136X. The Early Medieval “State” and the Tribal Formations in the Slavic Settlement Area of the Eastern Alps ...169XI. On the Eastern Border of Italy in the Early Middle Ages ...190XII. Istria at the Onset of the Frankish Rule, or the Impact of Global Politics on Regional and Local Conditions ...212Part Three: Bishoprics, the Nobility, and the Länder in the High and Late Middle AgesXIII. The Origin and the Beginnings of Episcopal Property in the Territory of Present-Day Slovenia ...233XIV. The Patriarchs of Aquileia as Margraves of Carniola ...256XV. The Beginnings of Ljubljana and the Bavarian Nobility ...274XVI. The Counts of Gorizia as Domini Terrae in Gorizia, Carniola, and Istria ...318XVII. The Counts of Cilli, the Issue of their Princely Authority and the Land of Cilli ...338XVIII. The Enthronement of the Dukes of Carinthia between History and Imagination: Issues of its Tradition, Development, and Course ...380Bibliography ...409Index ...449