The Fall of Great Moravia

Who Was Buried in Grave H153 at Pohansko Near Břeclav?
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-38313-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 54, 254 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

Reihe: East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450

The excavated foundations of a ninth-century sacral building in the northeastern suburb of Pohansko, an important centre of Great Moravia, and especially the find of the nobleman’s grave H 153, has focused scholarly attention onto the nature of the Mojmirid state and the reasons behind its sudden disintegration. In this volume, a group of archaeologists, historians and a natural scientist aim to incorporate this remarkable discovery into the wider frameworks of Moravian power, society, and culture, and thereby arrive at some surprising conclusions.

Contributors: are Stefan Eichert, David Kalhous, Pavel Kouril, Jirí Machácek, Vladimír Sládek, Ivo Štefan, Martin Wihoda, Roman Zehetmayer.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Machacek, Jiri

Wihoda, Martin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Mittelalterliche, neuzeitliche Archäologie (Europa)
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

List of Illustrations

Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

1 The Great Moravian Rotunda at Pohansko and an Osteobiographical Profile of Its Founder

Jirí Machácek and Vladimír Sládek

2 The Austrian Danube Region in the Decades Around 900

Roman Zehetmayer

3 The Magyars and Their Contribution to the Collapse and Fall of Great Moravia or Allies, Neighbours, Enemies

Pavel Kouril

4 The Second Life of the Mojmirid Dukes

Martin Wihoda

5 Graves, Churches, Culture and Texts: The Processes of Christianisation in the Early Middle Ages and Their Social and Cultural Context

David Kalhous

6 “Founder Tombs” in Early Medieval Carantania: A Survey

Stefan Eichert

7 Great Moravia, the Beginnings of Premyslid Bohemia and the Problem of Cultural Change

Ivo Štefan

8 Conclusion: Who Was the Man Buried in Grave H153 in Pohansko and What Happened to Him and His Family at the End of Great Moravia?

Jirí Machácek

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jirí Machácek is Professor of Medieval Archaeology and the Head of the Department of Archaeology and Museology at Masaryk University, Brno. He has published on medieval archaeology and computer applications on archaeology.

Martin Wihoda is Professor of Medieval History at Masaryk University, Brno. His research is focused on eastern Europe in the early and high Middle Ages.