This extensive anthology was created to mark the sixtieth birthday of doc. PhDr. Pavel Kouřil, CSc., mediaeval archaeologist and Director of the Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in Brno. It is therefore devoted to three major topics relating to the history of mediaeval Central Europe: the legacy of the oldest Slavic states, the day-to-day life of mediaeval man, and the milieu of the mediaeval power elites.
This book presents professionals, students and anyone interested in mediaeval history a total of 37 articles written by 45 authors from the Czech Republic and abroad. In addition to the predominantly Czech studies, it also contains texts in Polish, Slovak and German; the findings presented here are made generally more accessible by extensive English résumés together with introductory précis and keywords. The outer cover of the publication, with its fixed binding, laminated plates and coated paper, matches the high standard of the contents, printed in B5 format and containing high quality images (with 270 mostly colour illustrations).
