The Middle Ages between the Eastern Alps and the Northern Adriatic

The book deals with the Slovene historiography and history of the Slovene and neighbouring territories in the Middle Ages. It is the first work of its kind published in English. It thus makes the medieval history of this part of Europe and some of its fundamental problems accessible to the widest range of researchers. It contains 18 papers which comply with modern methodological approaches and current trends in historiography and it puts the validity and usefulness of these methods to the test in the case of “Slovene” material and examples. The first part of the book critically examines Slovene historiography, which largely viewed the Middle Ages from a national angle. The second part is dedicated to early medieval history, focussing on issues of Slavic ethnogeneses, society, and political structures. The third part addresses chapters from the history of the Church, the nobility, and the formation of Länder, and also discusses the famous enthronement of the Carinthian dukes.

Peter Štih, Ph.D. (1993) in History, University of Ljubljana, is Professor of Medieval History and Auxiliary Historical Sciences at the same university; he is an Associate Member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (2007) and Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (2008). He has published several books and articles on the medieval history of the Alpine-Adriatic region.