The Slavs in European history and civilization.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 1962
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 688
Subjects: Slavs -- History
Description: xxviii, 688 p. maps. 25 cm.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 565-635. Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface … vii; title: Introduction … xxi; title: ◦; title: 1. Europe to the thirteenth century … 1; title: 2. The last Přemyslides, Bohemia, and Poland … 21; title: 3. John of Bohemia, Emperor Louis IV, and Poland … 38; title: 4. Charles IV, Emperor and King of Bohemia, and Casimir the Great, King of Poland … 61; title: 5. The Second Bulgarian Empire, the rise of Serbia … 89; title: 6. The political organization of medieval Slavic states … 120; title: 7. Slavic medieval cultural achievements … 150; title: 8. The Czech Reformation and its aftermath … 183; title: 9. The Russian Principalities, the rise of Lithuania and Moscow, the Jagiellonian Federation … 212; title: 10. The Jagiellonian dynastic commonwealth and the Turkish danger … 232; title: 11. Poland-Lithuania and the Baltic … 247; title: 12. The growth of Muscovy and its relations with Poland-Lithuania … 259; title: 13. The Renaissance and the Slavs. Slavic cultural achievements in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries … 283; title: 14. The social and political development of the western and southern Slavs from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century … 325; title: 15. The growth of Muscovite autocracy: social and political changes in east Russia … 362; title: 16. The Reformation and the Slavs … 389; title: 17. The Habsburgs, Muscovy, Poland-Lithuania, and Bohemia … 435; title: 18. Poland, Muscovy's “time of troubles”, and the birth of the Ukraine … 466; title: 19. The Muscovite state under the first Romanovs … 489; title: 20. Imperial Russia and the Slavic world … 525; title: Lists of rulers … 557; title: Bibliographical abbreviations … 563; title: Bibliography … 565; title: Transliteration and pronunciation tables … 637; title: Index … 643; title: Maps … 689