The Expansion of Central Europe in the Middle Ages

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Contents: Introduction Part I The Question of German Expansion and Colonization in Central Europe: Medieval German expansion in Bohemia and Poland, James Westfall Thompson The settlement and colonization of Europe, Richard Koebner Medieval agrarian society in its prime: the lands east of the Elbe and German colonization eastwards, Hermann Aubin The expansion of Germany: colonization and conquest in the East, Geoffrey Barraclough German town foundations in Western Pomerania, Walter Kuhn Slavs and Germans, Frantisek Graus The German settlement in Central and Eastern Europe during the high Middle Ages, Martyn Rady The medieval colonization of Central Europe as a problem of world history and historiography, Jan M. Piskorski. Part II Bohemia: The Germans and the implantation of German law among the Bohemians and Moravians in the Middle Ages, Josef A1/2emlicka At the margin of community: Germans in pre-Hussite Bohemia, Leonard E. Scales Germans and Slavs in 13th-century Bohemia: some preliminary remarks on immigrants and law, Lisa Wolverton. Part III Hungary: Immigrants and locals in medieval Hungary: 11th-13th centuries, Nora Berend Foreign knights and clerks in early medieval Hungary, Erik Fugedi and JA nos M. Bak The expansions of the kingdom of Hungary in the Middle Ages (1000-1490), Attilla BA!rA!ny. Part IV Poland: German settlement in Poland, Marian Z. Jedlicki The medieval 'colonization of the East', Jan M. Piskorski Foreign colonization and introduction of German law in the 13th century, Aleksander Gieysztor Nationality conflicts in the German-Slavic borderland in the 13th-14th centuries and their social scope, Benedykt Zientara Economic and political institutions on the Polish-German frontier from the Middle Ages: action, reaction, interaction, Paul Knoll Pomerania and Poland in the 10th to 12th centuries: The expansion of the Piasts and the shaping of political, social and state relations in the seaside Slav communities, Stanislaw Rosik Index.