Week 4
The West in the East, ca. 800-900
Avars and
Franks
- Curta 90-96
- Charles R. Bowlus, "Italia-Bavaria-Avaria: the
grand
strategy behind Charlemagne's Renovatio
Imperii in the West," in The
Journal of Medieval Military History, ed. by Bernard Bachrach,
Clifford J.
Rogers and Kelly DeVries (Woodsworth, 2002), pp. 43-60 (Pack)
- Helmut Reimitz, "Conversion and control: the
establishment of
liturgical
frontiers in Carolingian Pannonia," in The Transformation of
Frontiers
from Late Antiquity to the Carolingians, ed. by Walter Pohl, Ian
Wood,
and Helmut Reimitz (Leiden/Boston/Cologne, 2001), pp. 189-207 (Pack)
In-class
assignment # 1
Early medieval Moravia
- Curta 124-134
- Jiří Macháček, "Early medieval centre in
Pohansko
near Břeclav/Lundeburg: munitio, emporium
or palatium of the rulers of Moravia?"
in Post-Roman Towns,
Trade, and Settlement in Europe and Byzantium,
ed. by Joachim Henning (Berlin/New York,
2007), pp. 473-498
(Pack)
- see a map of the most
important sites
- see a bird-view reconstruction of the ninth-century
hillfort at Pohansko
