Medievalists.net » Slavonia http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:06:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Banditry and the Clash of Powers in 14th-Century Thrace: Momcilo and his Fragmented Memory http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/07/banditry-clash-powers-14th-century-thrace-momcilo-fragmented-memory/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/07/banditry-clash-powers-14th-century-thrace-momcilo-fragmented-memory/#comments Mon, 08 Sep 2014 01:54:59 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=52418 In the 14th century, a time of civil wars, religious and dynastic strifes, epidemics, natural disasters and miserable living conditions for the wider strata in the cities and the countryside that increased migratory movements, banditry, an indigenous phenomenon in the Balkan mountainous regions, intermingled with the intensified political struggles.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/07/banditry-clash-powers-14th-century-thrace-momcilo-fragmented-memory/feed/ 0 The Most Significant Manuscript Sources of Medieval Croatian Vernacular Verse http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/04/the-most-significant-manuscript-sources-of-medieval-croatian-vernacular-verse/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/04/the-most-significant-manuscript-sources-of-medieval-croatian-vernacular-verse/#comments Tue, 04 Feb 2014 23:18:25 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=47314 The first part of the article gives a brief overview of the history of Croatian literacy up to the first written record of poetry in the Old Croatian language.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/04/the-most-significant-manuscript-sources-of-medieval-croatian-vernacular-verse/feed/ 0 BYZANTINE EMPIRE AND ITS INFLUENCE ON THE EDUCATIONAL STRUCTURE IN GREAT MORAVIA http://www.medievalists.net/2012/07/22/byzantine-empire-and-its-influence-on-the-educational-structure-in-great-moravia/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/07/22/byzantine-empire-and-its-influence-on-the-educational-structure-in-great-moravia/#comments Sun, 22 Jul 2012 23:36:53 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=34063 What could the Byzantine Empire offer to Great Moravia in the field of education? Let’s leave aside the political and theological aspects of the mission for a while and point out, that Byzantium complied with Rastislav’s request out of political reasons as well. They considered Great Moravia a possible ally.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/07/22/byzantine-empire-and-its-influence-on-the-educational-structure-in-great-moravia/feed/ 0 The place that lies between : Slavonia in the 10th and 11th centuries http://www.medievalists.net/2011/03/10/the-place-that-lies-between-slavonia-in-the-10th-and-11th-centuries/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/03/10/the-place-that-lies-between-slavonia-in-the-10th-and-11th-centuries/#comments Thu, 10 Mar 2011 21:50:55 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=18192 The place that lies between : Slavonia in the 10th and 11th centuries Mikecz, Jeremy MA Thesis in Medieval Studies, Central European University Budapest, May (2009) Abstract Medieval Slavonia was a place between – a place between cultures and kingdoms. In the tenth and eleventh century it existed at the intersection of a variety of cultural, political, […]

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