Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Situating medieval Eastern Europe: historiography and discontent 2. Between migration and origo gentis: population movements 3. Steppe empires without emperors: Avars, Bulgars and Khazars 4. Medieval nomadism 5. Early conversion to Christianity, Judaism and Islam 6. Conversion to Christianity: Bohemia, Poland, Hungary and Rus’ (9th to 12th centuries) 7. State formation in the 10th century 8. Strongholds and early medieval states 9. The rise of the early medieval aristocracy 10. Rulers between ideal and reality 11. Royal governments 12. Rural economy 13. Crafts, coins and trade (900-1300) 14. Towns and cities 15. Lords, peasants and slaves 16. Women and children 17. Jews, Armenians and Muslims 18. Church organization 19. Saints and relics 20. Heresy and popular religion 21. Crusades and Eastern Europe 22. The Baltic Crusades (1147-1300) 23. Political and practical literacy 24. Law 25. History writing 26. Hagiography 27. Monumental architecture 28. Monumental art 29. New powers - Serbia, Bulgaria 30. The Mongols in Eastern Europe

About the Author

Florin Curta is Professor of Medieval History and Archaeology at the University of Florida, USA. His books include Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500–1250 (2006); The Making of the Slavs: History and Archaeology of the Lower Danube, ca. 500–700 (2011), which received the Herbert Baxter Adams Award of the American Historical Association; The Edinburgh History of the Greeks, c. 500 to 1050: The Early Middle Ages (2011); Slavs in the Making: History, Linguistics and Archaeology in Eastern Europe (c. 500 to c. 700) (2021); and The Long Sixth Century in Eastern Europe (2021).