Slavs in the Middle Ages between Idea and Reality

Eduard Mühle, Ph.D., (1990), Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, is Professor of East Central and Eastern European History at the University of Münster. He has published widely on medieval and modern History.

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsMaps1 Prologue: The Making of Slavs in Modern Times1 The Western Discovery of the Slavs between Baroque and Romanticism2 Ideas of Slavic Community and Modern “Nation-Building”3 Slavic Unity and German Anti-Slavism4 The Slavic Idea in Eastern Europe between Stalinism and the European Union2 Questions and Methodology3 The Discovery of the Slavs in the Early Middle Ages1 Slavic Warriors and Settlers in Byzantium2 Slavic gentes in the Eyes of Latin Europe3 Slavs in the Distant Oriental View4 Early Slavic Realities1 Archaeology and Early Slavic Culture2 Open Settlements3 Living Houses4 Subsistence Economy5 Practices of Cult and Religion6 Local Communities7 Leaders and War-Bands8 Strongholds and Trading Places5 Early Slavic Power Structures (regna)1 The Khanate of the Proto-Bulgars2 Small Principalities in the Western Balkans3 Carinthia4 Old Moravia6 The Slavs in the Process of Medieval ‘State-Formation’ and ‘Nation-Building’1 Bulgaria2 Bohemia3 Croatia4 Kievan Rus’5 Poland6 Serbia7 Incomplete Processes of “State-Formation” and “Nation-Building”1 Polabian Slavs2 Pomerania3 Slavs in the Balkans8 Slavs Perceived by Non-Slavs through the Middle Ages1 The Byzantine Perception2 The Oriental Perception3 The Latin-European Perception9 Ideas of Slavic Unity in the Late Middle Ages1 Bohemia2 Poland3 Pomerania and Mecklenburg4 South-Eastern Europe5 Kievan Rus’ and Muscovy10 Epilogue: The Making of the Slavs in the Middle AgesBibliographyIndices