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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809299403321

Autore

Klapste Jan

Titolo

The Czech lands in medieval transformation / / by Jan Klapste ; translated by Sean Mark Miller and Katerina Millerova ; edited by Philadelphia Ricketts

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, c2012

ISBN

1-283-33492-5

9786613334923

90-04-22646-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (566 p.)

Collana

East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, , 1872-8103 ; ; v. 17

Classificazione

7,41

Altri autori (Persone)

RickettsPhiladelphia

Disciplina

943.71/022

Soggetti

Land settlement - Czech Republic - History - To 1500

Social change - Czech Republic - History - To 1500

Landscape changes - Czech Republic - History - To 1500

Regionalism - Czech Republic - History - To 1500

Bohemia (Czech Republic) History To 1526

Moravia (Czech Republic) History To 1526

Silesia (Czech Republic) History

Bohemia (Czech Republic) Geography

Moravia (Czech Republic) Geography

Silesia (Czech Republic) Geography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Translated from the Czech.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / Jan Klápště -- Chapter One The Middle Ages—Distant and Close / Jan Klápště -- Chapter Two Transforming the Might of the Mighty / Jan Klápště -- Chapter Three The Frail Certainties of the Rural Milieu / Jan Klápště -- Chapter Four The Long Journey to the Town / Jan Klápště -- Chapter Five Change in Change / Jan Klápště -- Bibliography / Jan Klápště -- Index / Jan Klápště.

Sommario/riassunto

This book offers a key to several important chapters of the history of Czech lands, firmly anchoring them in a broad European context. The Medieval transformation that impacted the Czech lands mostly in the



13th century is seen as a broad cultural change in which domestic preconditions encountered a system of innovations already evolved in West Central Europe. The main topics analysed are the onset of landed nobility, the transformation of the rural milieu, and the early history of towns. This analysis draws on every source category, including written testimony, archaeological findings, and architectural monuments. Inspired by microhistorical methodology, it does not indulge in general schemes but studies carefully chosen samples of the transformation and its natural differentiations. Winner of the 2012 Book Prize of the Early Slavic Studies Association.