An edition of The making of central and Eastern Europe
(1949)
The making of central and Eastern Europe
2d ed. / with a new introd. and notes to the text by the author.
by Francis Dvornik
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xxix, iv, 350 p. : maps ; 26 cm.
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The making of central and Eastern Europe
1974, Academic International Press
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- 2d ed. / with a new introd. and notes to the text by the author.
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Table of Contents
About the author … v
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Introduction to the second edition with notes to the text … vi
– Chapter I … vii
– Chapter II … xi
– Chapter III … xvii
– Chapter IV … xxi
– Chapter V … xxiii
– Chapter VI … xxv
– Appendices … xxvii
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Table of contents … i
Preface … iii
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Introduction … 1
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I. DAWN OF SLAVONIC HISTORY AND RISE OF GERMANY … 11
Origin and expansion of the Slavs — Byzantium and Moravia — Bohemia and Bavaria — Birth of Medieval Germany — Wenceslas of Bohemia, Henry I of Saxony and Arnulf of Bavaria — The first wave of the Drang nach Osten — Henry I, Bavaria and Lombardy — Otto I and the German dukes — German intervention in France and Lombardy —Otto’s success in Bohemia and his victory over the Magyars.
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II. THE EMPEROR OTTO I, POLAND, BOHEMIA AND RUSSIA … 39
Otto I Emperor — Political theories of Charlemagne and Otto I — Otto’s plan for eastern expansion and the Church — Mieszko I — His alleged Viking descent — His relation to the Empire — His struggle for Pomerania — The Varyags and the origin of Russia — Otto I and Olga of Kiev — Boleslas I of Bohemia and the conversion of Poland — Otto I, Magdeburg, Rome and Posen — A famous foundation charter — Morrow of the Quedlinburg Reichstag — Slavonic insurrection — Slavonic Dukes and the succession of Otto II — Expansion of Poland, Bohemia and Russia — They meet on the Carpathians.
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III. THE CONTEST BETWEEN THREE DYNASTIES; PIASTS, PRZEMYSLIDES AND SLAVNIKS … 95
The Slavniks and Magdeburg — A Compromise between the Przemyslides and the Slavniks; the Slavnik Adalbert is made Bishop of Prague — Adalbert and the Cluny Reform — Why Adalbert left Bohemia — First Polish-Czech clash — Polish expansion and a Papal document — A Czech embassy to Rome — Reasons for the fatal conflict — End of the Slavniks and of a dream — Czech bishop and German Emperor — S. Adalbert and Greco-Slavonic culture — Prussians and Poles — S. Adalbert’s martyrdom in Prussia — His posthumous fame.
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IV. OTTO’S “RENOVATIO IMPERII”, POLAND, BOHEMIA, HUNGARY AND RUSSIA … 136
Political ideals of Otto III and Sylvester II — Poland and the New Roman Empire — Western and eastern Christianity in Hungary — Christianisation of Hungary and the Czechs — Hungary and the New Roman Empire — The first Hungarian archbishop a Czech ? — Otto II and Russia — German or Greek Christianity in Kiev? — Theophano and the Roman embassy to Kiev — Otto III, Rome and Russia of Kiev — An independent archbishop in Kiev? — Otto III’s imperial ideology and the Germans — The Emperor’s achievement.
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V. A POLISH-CZECH OR A CZECH-POLISH STATE … 185
Henry II breaks with Ottonian ideals — Boleslas the Great supports Otto’s imperial conceptions — Bohemia, a Polish-Czech State realized — First clash between the Emperor and the Pole — The Emperor’s alliance with the pagan Veletians deals death blow to Ottonian ideology — Bruno of Querfurt’s mission to Hungary and Poland and his defence of Boleslas — Boleslas’ bid for aWestern Slavonic empire and his sympathizers in Germany — Henry II and Boleslas before the bar of history — Polish King succeeds to the role relinquished by the Emperor — Poland, Bohemia, Hungary and Russia — Mieszko II and Conrad II — Last bid for a Przemyslide State — Conrad’s “Divide et impera” — Abortive Czech-Polish State — Poland and Bohemia at the close of a period.
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VI. KIEVAN RUSSIA AND CENTRAL EUROPE … 236
Kievan Russia’s cultural achievements — Russia, a new channel between Byzantium and the West? — Western Saints and the Russian Church — Penetration of western Slavonic literature from Bohemia into Kiev — Magyars, Czechs, Croats, Germans and Russians in the XIth century — Poland and Kievan Russia — Ruriks and the courts of Western Europe — Western influence in Kiev — Great possibilities for Europe — Consequences of a fateful development.
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CONCLUSION. CENTRAL EUROPE’S FATE … 262
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APPENDIX I. BYZANTINE, ARAB AND ANGLO-SAXON TRADITION ON WHITE CROATIA AND WHITE SERBIA. ORIGINS OF THE CROATS AND THE SERBS … 268
Constantine Porphyrogennetos — Ma’sudi, The Persian Geographer and King Alfred — Theories on the origin of the Croats and the Serbs.
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APPENDIX II. FORGOTTEN EMPIRES: THE EMPIRE OF THE ANTES, WHITE CROATIA, WHITE SERBIA … 277
Sarmatians and Slavs in South Russia — The Spori (Spali) and the Empire of the Antes — Croats and Avars — Migration of the Croats and the Serbs to the south — Nature of Croatian and Serbian organization — History of White Croatia and White Serbia till the Xth century — Croats, Serbs and Bohemia — White Croatia and the Magyars.
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APPENDIX III. POLISH AND RUSSIAN CONFLICT OVER THE REMAINS OF WHITE CROATIA … 298
The Croats in the Russian Annals — Ma’sudi’s statement — The Russians in the document of Raffelstetten.
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APPENDIX IV. PRIMITIVE RUSSIANS OF SARMATIAN ORIGIN? … 305
The Rhos in Ezekiel — The Rhos in Zacharias the Rhetor — Rhos and Ruks-As.
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APPENDIX V. THE DONATION OF POLAND TO THE HOLY SEE BY MIESZKO IN THE “DAGOME IUDEX” … 315
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List of Abbreviations … 319
Bibliography of Sources … 319
General Bibliography … 323
Index … 335
Errata … 351
Maps on pages 12, 40, 96, 137, 278
Edition Notes
Bibliography: p. 319-334.
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