Books in the Eastern and Central European Studies series

The power and authority of the medieval Romanians is a slippery subject, which becomes delicate when the analysis focuses on relations in the Kingdom of Hungary. Therefore the book studies the centuries when the Romanians began to rise from the sources. With them a world, unique in its diversity, rose at the eastern limits of Christendom.

This book covers various aspects of the impact of the Jagiellonian dynasty on Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe, and its reign in Lithuania, Poland, Hungary and Bohemia (14th-16th century). It renders visible the relevance of the Age of the Jagiellonians for the transformation of Europe between the late Middle Ages and the Early Modern period.

Le volume contient des articles portant sur l'histoire de la litterature byzantine et l'histoire culturelle de Byzance. L'accent principal tombe sur les nouvelles interpretations des sources primaires, tant publiees qu'inedites, avec l'ambition d'approfondir la comprehension de la societe byzantine.

The book studies political transition from dynastic reign to elective monarchy in sixteenth-century Poland-Lithuania. The political transition is viewed in the context of the great phenomena of early modern Europe, e.g. Reformation and state formation process.