Medieval Silesia: An Inclusive History [Paperback]

List of Figures and Maps

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

Part 1: Silesia in the high Middle Ages (eleventh to thirteenth century)?

?Chapter 1:?A region at crossroads

Silesias origins in a European context  Rulers over Silesia  Society and culture

?Chapter 2:?Dukes and duchesses

Europe in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries  Silesian dukes and duchesses in the thirteenth century  Ruling the Silesian duchies

?Chapter 3:?Connections of courtly culture.

European aristocracy and chivalric culture  Nobility and knighthood  Literacy and the nobility  Chivalric literature  Chivalric lifestyle?

?Chapter 4: The Silesian church and the Jewish community

Changes in Christian society  Spiritual and secular authority  Jurisdiction over Jews  Churches and schools  Monasteries and convents  Documents and books  History writing, hagiography, and scholarship?

?Chapter 5: Peasant society in an age of transformation

Agricultural economy in high medieval Europe  Silesian peasants and Polish law  An era of innovation  Lords and peasants?

?Chapter 6: Urbanization in a changing society

Urbanization in the European high Middle Ages  Chartered towns: the law of Magdeburg  Urban population  Municipal administration  Town life and urban culture

?Part 2: Silesia in the late Middle Ages (fourteenth and fifteenth centuries).

?Chapter 7: Silesia and l'