Research Catalog

Title

Slavs in the Middle Ages between idea and reality / by Eduard Mühle.

Author

Mühle, Eduard

Publication

• Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]
• ©2023

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Details

Additional Authors

Korecki, Tristan

Description

xvii, 610 pages : maps; 25 cm.

Summary

"The book presents a new history of the Slavs during the Middle Ages. Based on in-depth source analysis, it describes on the one hand the 'factual' historical structures that can be discerned behind the phenomenon of 'the Slavs'--from the 'early Slavic' population groups and their first formations of power in the 7th to 9th centuries, through the Slavic-speaking realms and nationes of the 10th to 12th centuries, to the late medieval societies of the 13th to 15th centuries. On the other hand, it analyzes external Byzantine, Latin and Arabic perceptions, as well as 'Slavic' self-imagery, with which the Slavs have been conceptualized or imagined as a cultural construct since the 6th century. Mühle further demonstrates that these images were already being instrumentalized for historical-political purposes in various contexts and for different purposes in the Middle Ages"--

Series Statement

East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 1872-8103 ; volume 89

Uniform Title

• Slawen zwischen Idee und Wirklichkeit. English
• East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450 ; v. 89.

Alternative Title

Slawen zwischen Idee und Wirklichkeit.

Subject

• To 1500
• Slavs > History > To 1500
• Slavs > Europe, Eastern > History > To 1500
• Slavs > Ethnic identity
• Slavs > Europe, Eastern > Ethnic identity
• Slavs > Public opinion
• Civilization, Slavic
• Slavs
• Ethnicity
• Public opinion
• Eastern Europe

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• "Originally published as "Die Slawen zwischen Idee und Wirklichkeit" by Böhlau in 2020."--Title page verso.
• ... [T]o Tristan Korecki (Warsaw) for an excellent translation of the text (from its Polish version) into English."--Acknowledgements, page x.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-579) and indexes.

Contents

Prologue: The Making of Slavs in Modern Times -- Questions and Methodology -- The Discovery of the Slavs in the Early Middle Ages -- Early Slavic Realities -- Early Slavic Power Structures (regna) -- The Slavs in the Process of Medieval "State-Formation" and "Nation-Building" -- Incomplete Processes of "State-Formation" and "Nation-Building" -- Slavs Perceived by Non-Slavs through the Middle Ages -- Ideas of Slavic Unity in the Late Middle Ages -- Epilogue: The Making of the Slavs in the Middle Ages.

Call Number

JFE 23-2436

ISBN

• 9789004450257
• 9004450254

LCCN

2022060727

OCLC

1350734703

Author

Mühle, Eduard, author.

Title

Slavs in the Middle Ages between idea and reality / by Eduard Mühle.

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]

Copyright Date

©2023

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 1872-8103 ; volume 89

East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450 ; v. 89.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-579) and indexes.

Chronological Term

To 1500

Added Author

Korecki, Tristan, translator.

Other Form:

Online version: Mühle, Eduard Slavs in the Middle Ages between idea and reality Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023] 9789004536746 (DLC) 2022060728

Research Call Number

JFE 23-2436