If you browse the shelves of your local bookstore, it may seem like Eastern Europe basically didn’t exist until the Soviet Union. Fortunately, Medieval Studies is slowly widening the lens to give us a bigger and better picture of what went on beyond the invisible borders of west versus east. This week, Danièle speaks with Florin Curta about why it’s taken the field so long to address Eastern Europe, why we need to look at enslavement as part of our understanding of the European Middle Ages broadly, and how we can all get started including Eastern Europe in our scholarship, is coming up right after this.
If you browse the shelves of your local bookstore, it may seem like Eastern Europe basically didn’t exist until the Soviet Union. Fortunately, Medieval Studies is slowly widening the lens to give us a bigger and better picture of what went on beyond the invisible borders of west versus east. This week, Danièle speaks with Florin Curta about why it’s taken the field so long to address Eastern Europe, why we need to look at enslavement as part of our understanding of the European Middle Ages broadly, and how we can all get started including Eastern Europe in our scholarship, is coming up right after this.
Florin Curta is a Professor at the University of Florida and well-known for his research on Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages. Click here to see his Academia.edu page. His new book is Medieval Eastern Europe, 500-1300: A Reader, published by University of Toronto Press.
Some of his other books include:
The Routledge Handbook of East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500-1300
Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages (500-1300)
Medieval East Central and Eastern Europe, by Florin Curta and Sébastien Rossignol (forthcoming from University of Toronto Press)
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