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Index
Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
CONTENTS
List of figures
List of maps
List of contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART 1 Rus’ and Northern Europe
1 The widow princess of Minsk
2 Anna, a woman of Novgorod
3 Prince Vladimir of Pskov
4 Mother of a tribal Häme Warrior – Kuutamo Hyväneuvo
5 From butcher to saint: the improbable life and fate of Vaišvilkas/Vojšelk/Lavryš/Elisej of Lithuania and Black Rus′ (?–1267)
PART 2 Eurasian steppe
6 The rare and excellent history of Konchak: a Polovtsian chieftain
7 Sübedei Ba’atar: portrait of a Mongol general
PART 3 Byzantium and southeastern Europe
8 Anna Komnene: princess, historian, and conspirator?
9 Angel on earth and heavenly man: St. Sava of Serbia
10 Paulus de Breberio banus Croatorum dominus et Bosne
11 King Milutin and his many marriages (*1254, †November 21, 1321, r. 1282–1321)
PART 4 Central Europe
12 Henry Zdík, bishop of Olomouc and Premonstratensian
13 King Béla IV of Hungary: a monarch in a period of crisis and recovery
14 Zalava, slave in the Kingdom of Hungary
15 Jan Długosz on King Władysław Jagiełło’s master chef and the invention of bigos
PART 5 Travelers to strange lands
16 The travels of Gorm in Eastern Europe
17 Anna Porphyrogenita, Byzantine princess and queen of the Rus′
18 “The journeys of my soul in this land of Canaan” by Yitshak ben Sirota
19 Agent of change: Evpraksia Vsevolodovna between emperor and papacy
20 Fotii, a Rus’ pilgrim to Constantinople
Portraits of Eastern Europe: conclusion – pulling back the curtain
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