The Rise of Medieval Towns and States in East Central Europe
Early Medieval Centres as Social and Economic Systems
Biographical note
Jiří Macháček, Ph.D. (1971) in Nové Město na Moravě (Czech Republic), is Associate Professor at Masaryk University, Brno. He has published on medieval archeology and computer applications in archeology. He is winner of the 2006 Otto Gründler Travel Award (WMU Kalamazoo).
Readership
Historians, archaeologists as well as those interested in the emergence of the mediaeval civilization on a continental scale.
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The Slippery Memory of Men analyzes how during the early fourteenth century a discourse of eternal enmity was created between the Teutonic Knights and the rulers of Poland as these former allies contended over the disputed region of Pomerania.
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The inclusion of the Black Sea basin into the long-distance trade network – with its two axes of the Silk Road through the Golden Horde (Urgench-Sarai-Tana/Caffa) and the Spice Road through the Ilkhanate (Ormuz-Tabriz-Trebizond) – was the two Mongol states’ most important contribution to making ...
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