Medieval East Central Europe in a comparative perspective : from frontier zones to lands in focus / edited by Gerhard Jaritz and Katalin Szende.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Gerhard Jaritz -- Part I. What is East Central Europe? -- The mirage of East Central Europe: historical regions in a comparative perspective / Nora Berend -- The emergence of East Central Europe and approaches to internal differentiation / M�arta Font -- The notion of "Central Europe" in Russian historical scholarship / Anna Kuznetsova -- Part II. Political practices -- Between empires: South-Eastern Europe and the two Roman Empires in the Middle Ages / Stefan Burkhardt -- Negotiating realms: political representation in late Medieval Poland, Hungary, and the Holy Roman Empire / Julia Burkhardt -- Part III. Religious space -- Mendicant networks and population in a European perspective / Beatrix F. Romh�anyi -- Friars preachers in frontier provinces of Medieval Europe / Johnny Grandjean G�gsig Jakobsen -- Part IV. Urban space -- Comparable aspects in urban development: Kievan Rus' and the European Middle Ages / Olha Kozubska-Andrusiv -- Town foundations in East Central Europe and the new world: the use of the grid plan in a comparative perspective / Katalin Szende -- Female engagement in Medieval urban economy: late-Medieval Moravia in a comparative perspective / Michaela Anton�in Malan�ikov�a -- Part V. Art and literature -- The place of East Central Europe on the map of Romanesque architecture / B�ela Zsolt Szak�acs -- Intersections: Medieval East Central Europe from the perspective of literacy and communication / Anna Adamska -- Etymological argumentation as a category of historiographic thought in historical writings of Bohemia, Poland, and Hungary / Julia Verkholantsev -- What did we learn? What is to be done? Some insights and visions after reading this book / J�anos M. Bak.