The making of central and Eastern Europe
By: by Francis Dvornik.
Edition: 2d ed. / with a new introd. and notes to the text by the author.
Series: The Central and East European series ;; v. 3
Publisher: Academic International Press
Published: 1974
Place of publication: Gulf Breeze, Fla
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780875690230
Subjects: Europe, Central -- History; Europe, Eastern -- History
Description: xxix, iv, 350 p. : maps ; 26 cm.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 319-334.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: About the author … v; title: ◦; title: Introduction to the second edition with notes to the text … vi; title: – Chapter I … vii; title: – Chapter II … xi; title: – Chapter III … xvii; title: – Chapter IV … xxi; title: – Chapter V … xxiii; title: – Chapter VI … xxv; title: – Appendices … xxvii; title: Table of contents … i; title: Preface … iii; title: Introduction … 1; title: I. DAWN OF SLAVONIC HISTORY AND RISE OF GERMANY … 11; title: Origin and expansion of the Slavs — Byzantium and Moravia — Bohemia and Bavaria — Birth of Medieval Germany — Wenceslas of Bohemia, Henry I of Saxony and Arnulf of Bavaria — The first wave of the Drang nach Osten — Henry I, Bavaria and Lombardy — Otto I and the German dukes — German intervention in France and Lombardy —Otto’s success in Bohemia and his victory over the Magyars.; title: II. THE EMPEROR OTTO I, POLAND, BOHEMIA AND RUSSIA … 39; title: Otto I Emperor — Political theories of Charlemagne and Otto I — Otto’s plan for eastern expansion and the Church — Mieszko I — His alleged Viking descent — His relation to the Empire — His struggle for Pomerania — The Varyags and the origin of Russia — Otto I and Olga of Kiev — Boleslas I of Bohemia and the conversion of Poland — Otto I, Magdeburg, Rome and Posen — A famous foundation charter — Morrow of the Quedlinburg Reichstag — Slavonic  insurrection — Slavonic Dukes and the succession of Otto II — Expansion of Poland, Bohemia and Russia — They meet on the Carpathians.; title: III. THE CONTEST BETWEEN THREE DYNASTIES; PIASTS, PRZEMYSLIDES AND SLAVNIKS … 95; title: The Slavniks and Magdeburg — A Compromise between the Przemyslides and the Slavniks; the Slavnik Adalbert is made Bishop of Prague — Adalbert and the Cluny Reform — Why Adalbert left Bohemia — First Polish-Czech clash —  Polish expansion and a Papal document — A Czech embassy to Rome — Reasons for the fatal conflict — End of the Slavniks and of a dream — Czech bishop and German Emperor — S. Adalbert and Greco-Slavonic culture — Prussians and Poles — S. Adalbert’s martyrdom in Prussia — His posthumous fame.; title: IV. OTTO’S “RENOVATIO IMPERII”, POLAND, BOHEMIA, HUNGARY AND RUSSIA … 136; title: Political ideals of Otto III and Sylvester II — Poland and the New Roman Empire — Western and eastern Christianity in Hungary — Christianisation of Hungary and the Czechs — Hungary and the New Roman Empire — The first Hungarian archbishop a Czech ? — Otto II and Russia — German or Greek Christianity in Kiev? — Theophano and the Roman embassy to Kiev — Otto III, Rome and Russia of Kiev — An independent archbishop in Kiev? — Otto III’s imperial ideology and the Germans — The Emperor’s achievement.; title: V. A POLISH-CZECH OR A CZECH-POLISH STATE … 185; title: Henry II breaks with Ottonian ideals — Boleslas the Great supports Otto’s imperial conceptions — Bohemia, a Polish-Czech State realized — First clash between the Emperor and the Pole — The Emperor’s alliance with the pagan Veletians deals death blow to Ottonian ideology — Bruno of Querfurt’s mission to Hungary and Poland and his defence of Boleslas — Boleslas’ bid for aWestern Slavonic empire and his sympathizers in Germany — Henry II and Boleslas before the bar of history — Polish King succeeds to the role relinquished by the Emperor — Poland, Bohemia, Hungary and Russia — Mieszko II and Conrad II — Last bid for a Przemyslide State — Conrad’s “Divide et impera” — Abortive Czech-Polish State — Poland and Bohemia at the close of a period.; title: VI. KIEVAN RUSSIA AND CENTRAL EUROPE … 236; title: Kievan Russia’s cultural achievements — Russia, a new channel between Byzantium and the West? — Western Saints and the Russian Church — Penetration of western Slavonic literature from Bohemia into Kiev — Magyars, Czechs, Croats, Germans and Russians in the XIth century — Poland and Kievan Russia — Ruriks and the courts of Western Europe — Western influence in Kiev — Great possibilities for Europe — Consequences of a fateful development.; title: CONCLUSION. CENTRAL EUROPE’S FATE … 262; title: APPENDIX I. BYZANTINE, ARAB AND ANGLO-SAXON TRADITION ON WHITE CROATIA AND WHITE SERBIA. ORIGINS OF THE CROATS AND THE SERBS … 268; title: Constantine Porphyrogennetos — Ma’sudi, The Persian Geographer and King Alfred — Theories on the origin of the Croats and the Serbs.; title: APPENDIX II. FORGOTTEN EMPIRES: THE EMPIRE OF THE ANTES, WHITE CROATIA, WHITE SERBIA … 277; title: Sarmatians and Slavs in South Russia — The Spori (Spali) and the Empire of the Antes — Croats and Avars — Migration of the Croats and the Serbs to the south — Nature of Croatian and Serbian organization — History of White Croatia and White Serbia till the Xth century — Croats, Serbs and Bohemia — White Croatia and the Magyars.; title: APPENDIX III. POLISH AND RUSSIAN CONFLICT OVER THE REMAINS OF WHITE CROATIA … 298; title: The Croats in the Russian Annals — Ma’sudi’s statement — The Russians in the document of Raffelstetten.; title: APPENDIX IV. PRIMITIVE RUSSIANS OF SARMATIAN ORIGIN? … 305; title: The Rhos in Ezekiel — The Rhos in Zacharias the Rhetor — Rhos and Ruks-As.; title: APPENDIX V. THE DONATION OF POLAND TO THE HOLY SEE BY MIESZKO IN THE “DAGOME IUDEX” … 315; title: List of Abbreviations … 319; title: Bibliography of Sources … 319; title: General Bibliography … 323; title: Index … 335; title: Errata … 351; title: Maps on pages 12, 40, 96, 137, 278