The Slavs in European History and Civilization
Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr
Published: December 1992
Place of publication: New Brunswick
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 688
ISBN-13: 9780813507996
Subjects: Ethnic studies; Social history; Europe - General; History - General History; Ethnohistory; History: World
First sentence: The most complicated period in the history of Central and Eastern Europe is the late Middle Ages and the beginning of modern times, from the thirteenth to the eighteenth century.
Table of contents: title: Preface - vii; title: Introduction - xxi; title: Chapter 1. Europe to the Thirteenth Century - 1; title: Chapter 2. The Last Premyslides, Bohemia, and Poland - 21; title: Chapter 3. John of Bohemia, Emperor Louis IV, and Poland - 38; title: Chapter 4. Charles IV, Emperor and King of Bohemia, and Casimir the Great, King of Poland - 61; title: Chapter 5. The Second Bulgarian Empire, The Rise of Serbia - 89; title: Chapter 6. The Political Organization of Medieval Slavic States - 120; title: Chapter 7. Slavic Medieval Cultural Achievements - 150; title: Chapter 8. The Czech Reformation and its Aftermath - 183; title: Chapter 9. The Russian Principalities, The Rise of Lithuania and Moscow, The Jagiellonian Federation - 212; title: Chapter 10. The Jagiellonian Dynastic Commonwealth and the Turkish Danger - 232; title: Chapter 11. Poland - Lithuania and the Baltic - 247; title: Chapter 12. The Growth of Muscovy and its Relations with Poland - Lithuania - 259; title: Chapter 13. The Renaissance and the Slavs. Slavic Cultural Achievements in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries - 283; title: Chapter 14. The Social and Political Development of the Western and Southern Slavs from the Fifteenth to the Seventeenth Century - 325; title: Chapter 15. The Growth of Muscovite Autocracy: Social and Political Changes in East Russia - 362; title: Chapter 16. The Reformation and the Slavs - 389; title: Chapter 17. The Habsburgs, Muscovy, Poland - Lithuania, and Bohemia - 435; title: Chapter 18. Poland, Muscovy's "Time of Troubles," and the Birth of the Ukraine - 466; title: Chapter 19. The Muscovite State under the First Romanovs - 489; title: Chapter 20. Imperial Russia and the Slavic World - 525; title: List of Rulers - 557; title: Bibliographical Abbreviations - 563; title: Bibliography - 565; title: Transliteration and Pronunciation Tables - 637; title: Index - 643; title: Maps - 689