Brill Academic Publishers, 2013. — 267 p. In The Making of Christian Moravia Maddalena Betti examines the creation of the Moravian archdiocese, of which St Methodius was the first incumbent, in the context of ninth-century papal policy in central and south-eastern Europe. In the nineteenth and twentieth century religious and nationalistic concerns widely influenced the...
Brill, 2010. — 267 p. — ISBN: 9789004180093 The emergence of the Bohemian state is a long-discussed topic with many obscure points. Though significant progress has been reached in recent decades, the interpretations proposed are far from satisfactory. Important new information is still awaiting inclusion in explanatory schemes. In addition to that, treatises on the origins of...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2014. — 156 p. In For the Common Good: The Bohemian Land Law and the Beginning of the Hussite Revolution Jeanne E. Grant presents an interpretation of the mentality of leading nobles within the Czech kingdom to understand their political actions in the Hussite Revolution. The nobles’ viewpoint derived from a confluence of legal, political, and...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2012. — 335 p. An analysis of the early Přemyslid realm provides an opportunity for recognizing the importance of different factors involved in the formation of stable social structures in the early medieval regnum. The contemporary narrative emphasizes the importance of violence, where the Přemyslid princes and their powerful retinues imposed...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2011. — 567 p. This book offers a key to several important chapters of the history of Czech lands, firmly anchoring them in a broad European context. The Medieval transformation that impacted the Czech lands mostly in the 13th century is seen as a broad cultural change in which domestic preconditions encountered a system of innovations already evolved...
2010. — 10 p. The Kingdom of Bohemia was predominantly Slavic in ethnicity, having been established by the Slavs who settled in what had been a Celtic region of Eastern Europe. In the 13th century, the presence of large silver deposits and the willingness of its rulers to encourage ethnic Germans to exploit and develop this wealth resulted in a large German minority in Bohemia....
Brill Academic Publishers, 2017. — 373 p. Power and Exploitation in the Czech Lands in the 10th-12th Centuries: A Central European Perspective offers a unique analysis of the history of early medieval Czech society. It draws new attention to the role of serfdom and slavery in the early period of the Pemyslid dynasty in the Czech lands, and the organization of land and property...
Libri, 2007. — 392 s. Dvojice autorů specialistů-kastellologů (jeden z Moravy, jeden ze Slovenska) přináší vůbec první ucelený výčet a podrobný popis hradů na Slovensku. Kniha koncepčně navazuje na svazky Libri o českých, respektive moravských hradech, přináší úvodní stať o vývoji hradní architektury, abecedně řazený lexikon, je vybavena bohatým ilustračním doprovodem (veduty,...
Libri, 2007. — 392 s. Dvojice autorů specialistů-kastellologů (jeden z Moravy, jeden ze Slovenska) přináší vůbec první ucelený výčet a podrobný popis hradů na Slovensku. Kniha koncepčně navazuje na svazky Libri o českých, respektive moravských hradech, přináší úvodní stať o vývoji hradní architektury, abecedně řazený lexikon, je vybavena bohatým ilustračním doprovodem (veduty,...
Libri, 2007. — 392 s. Dvojice autorů specialistů-kastellologů (jeden z Moravy, jeden ze Slovenska) přináší vůbec první ucelený výčet a podrobný popis hradů na Slovensku. Kniha koncepčně navazuje na svazky Libri o českých, respektive moravských hradech, přináší úvodní stať o vývoji hradní architektury, abecedně řazený lexikon, je vybavena bohatým ilustračním doprovodem (veduty,...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. — 416 p. This is the first comprehensive study in English of Czech society and politics in the High Middle Ages. It paints a vivid portrait of a flourishing Christian community in the decades between 1050 and 1200. Bohemia's social and political landscape remained remarkably cohesive, centered on a throne in Prague, the Premyslid duke who...
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