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The Expansion of Central Europe in the Middle Ages (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The Expansion of Central Europe in the Middle Ages (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: The Expansion of Latin Europe, 1000-1500
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This volume brings together a set of key studies on the history of
medieval Central Europe (Bohemia, Hungary, Poland), along with
others specially commissioned for the book or translated, and a new
introduction. This region was both an area of immigration, and one
of polities in expansion. Such expansion included the settlement
and exploitation of previously empty lands as well as rulers'
attempts to incorporate new territories under their rule, although
these attempts did not always succeed. Often, German immigration
has been prioritized in scholarship, and the medieval expansion of
Central Europe has been equated with the expansion of Germans.
Debates then focused on the positive or negative contribution of
Germans to local life, and the consequences of their settlement.
This perspective, however, distorts our understanding of medieval
processes. On the one hand, Central Europe was not a passive
recipient of immigrants. Local rulers and eventually nobles
benefited from and encouraged immigration; they played an active
role. On the other hand, German immigration was not a unified
movement, and cannot be equated with a drang nach osten. Finally,
not just Germans, but also various Romance-speaking and other
immigrant groups settled in Central Europe. This volume, therefore,
seeks to present a more complex picture of medieval expansion in
Central Europe.
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