East Central Europe in the Middle Ages, 1000-1500 (History of East Central Europe)

Sedlar (history, U. of Pittsburgh) reviews the history of the region between the Elbe and the Ukraine from the beginning of the present nation states until the conquest of the Ottoman Empire. Her thematic, rather than national, arrangement allows her to compare the several nations in such terms as migration, state and town building, religion, laws, commerce, and literacy. All but three of the ten-volume series are already published. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.