The Expansion of Central Europe in the Middle Ages

Cover......Page 1
Half Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 10
General Editors' Preface......Page 14
Introduction......Page 18
1 Medieval German Expansion in Bohemia and Poland (selected excerpts)......Page 38
2 The Settlement and Colonization of Europe (selected excerpts)......Page 76
3 Medieval Agrarian Society in its Prime: The lands east of the Elbe and German colonization eastwards......Page 98
4 The Expansion of Germany: Colonization and conquest in the east (selected excerpt)......Page 140
5 German Town Foundations in Western Pomerania......Page 150
6 Slavs and Germans......Page 186
7 The German Settlement in Central and Eastern Europe during the High Middle Ages......Page 214
8 The Medieval Colonization of Central Europe as a Problem of World History and Historiography......Page 252
9 The Germans and the Implantation of German Law among the Bohemians and Moravians in the Middle Ages......Page 274
10 At the Margin of Community: Germans in pre-Hussite Bohemia......Page 308
11 Germans and Slavs in 13th-Century Bohemia: Some preliminary remarks on immigrants and law......Page 334
12 Immigrants and Locals in Medieval Hungary: 11th—13th centuries......Page 344
13 Foreign Knights and Clerks in Early Medieval Hungary......Page 356
14 The Expansions of the Kingdom of Hungary in the Middle Ages (1000-1490)......Page 370
15 German Settlement in Poland (selected excerpt)......Page 418
16 The Medieval 'Colonization of the East' in Polish Historiography......Page 426
17 Foreign Colonization and Introduction of German Law in the 13th Century......Page 436
18 Nationality Conflicts in the German-Slavic Borderland in the 13th—14th Centuries and their Social Scope......Page 444
19 Economic and Political Institutions on the Polish-German Frontier in the Middle Ages: Action, reaction, interaction......Page 464
20 Pomerania and Poland in the 10th to 12th Centuries: The expansion of the Piasts and shaping political, social and state relations in the seaside Slav communities......Page 488
Index......Page 528