num_pages: 320
description: Our understanding of medieval Central and Eastern Europe is being revitalized by new directions in cultural history. Careful and detailed portraits of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century life in the region shed new light on the city the court the school and university the economy and prevailing ideas and expand our vision of the interplay between religion politics music and memory. Grecki and Van Deusen present the region in its intimate relationship with other regions of Europe: the commercial intellectual and social networks that naturally connect Poland and its neighbors to centers in Italy France and Germany as well as the broad areas of contact cultural sharing and similarity of patterns. This book thus contributes to the problem of Europe--as a region and as a construct. Offering us nothing less than a new cultural history of the region Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages will be invaluable for scholars working on the cultural economic and social history of Central and Eastern Europe.
language: English
title: Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages: A Cultural History
publisher: Tauris Academic Studies