Week 11
New powers (II)
Hungary
after the conversion to
Christianity
- Curta 350-357
and 400-408
- Marianne Sághy, "The making of the Christian
kingdom
in Hungary," in Europe Around the Year 1000, ed. by
Przemyslaw Urbanczyk (Warsaw,
2001), pp. 451-464 (Pack)
- Nora Berend, József Laszlovszky, and Béla
Zsolt
Szakács,
"The kingdom
of Hungary," in Christianization and the Rise of the
Christian Monarchy. Scandinavia, Central Europe and Rus' c. 900-1200,
ed.
by Nora Berend (Cambridge/New York,
2007), pp. 319-368 (Pack)
- see a brief presentation of the Spis
Castle (Slovakia) and an outline of the history of Saxon
settlements in Transylvania
In-class
assignment #3
Poland with Bohemia,
Bohemia without Poland
- Zdenek Merínsky and Jaroslav Mezník, "The
making of the
Czech
state: Bohemia and Moravia from the tenth to the fourteenth century,"
in Bohemia in History, ed. by Mikulaš Teich
(Cambridge/New York, 1998),
pp. 39-58 (Pack)
- Piotr Górecki, "Communities of legal memory in
medieval Poland,
ca. 1200-1240," Journal of Medieval History 24 (1998), 128-54 (available
online)
- see a map
of central Bohemia with some of the most important sites and another of
the present-day Czech
Republic
- visit the St.
Clement church in Levý Hradec, the chapel of Sts. Peter and
Paul in Budec,
the basilica
of St. George in the Prague
Castle (see also a plan of
the tenth-century castle), the initial St.
Vitus Cathedral (Rotunda) in Prague, the Sázava
monastery, and a brief presentation of the Znojmo
Rotunda
- see the statue of St. Wenceslas in Prague and his medieval portrait
- see also a brief presentation of Ceský
Krumlov
