Slavs in European History and Civilization

FATHER FRANCIS DVORNIK was an ordained priest born in Czechoslovakia. He studied in Paris and London before becoming a professor of Byzantine history at Harvard University.

• PrefaceIntroductionChapter I. Europe to the Thirteenth CenturyChapter II. The Last Premyslides, Bohemia, and PolandChapter III. John of Bohemia, Emperor Louis IV, and PolandChapter IV. Charles IV, Emperor and King of Bohemia, and Casimir the Great, King of PolandChapter V. The Second Bulgarian Empire, the Rise of SerbiaChapter VI. The Political Organization of Medieval Slavic StatesChapter VII. Slavic Medieval Cultural AchievementsChapter VIII. The Czech Reformation and Its AftermathChapter IX. The Russian Principalities, the Rise of Lithuania and Moscow, the Jagiellonian FederationChapter X. The Jagiellonian Dynastic Commonwealth and the Turkish DangerChapter XI. Poland-Lithuania and the BalticChapter XII. The Growth of Muscovy and Its Relations with Poland-LithuaniaChapter XIII. The Renaissance and the Slavs. Slavic Cultural Achievements in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth CenturiesChapter XIV. The Social and Political Development of the Western and Southern Slavs from the Fifteenth to the Sixteenth CenturyChapter XV. The Growth of Muscovite Autocracy: Social and Political Changes in East RussiaChapter XVI. The Reformation and the SlavsChapter XVII. The Habsburgs, Muscovy, Poland-Lithuania, and BohemiaChapter XVIII. Poland, Muscovy's "Time of Troubles," and the Birth of the UkraineChapter XIX. The Muscovite State under the First RomanovsChapter XX. Imperial Russia and the Slavic WorldList of RulersBibliographical AbbreviationsBibliographyTransliteration and Pronunciation TablesIndexMaps