The Emergence of the Nobility in East Central Europe Between the Eighth and Thirteenth Centuries

This book explores the formation and evolution of medieval elites in the frontier and peripheral regions of the Frankish/East Frankish Empire and East-Central Europe between the 8th and 13th centuries.

Robert Antonín is Professor of Medieval history at the Department of History of the Faculty of Arts, the University of Ostrava, where he has been also the Dean since 2018. His long-term research interests focus on the issues of political, social, economic, and cultural development of the central Europe during High Middle Ages and on the topics related to the limits of interpretation of (not only) medieval historiography. He is an author of several monographs, including The Ideal Ruler in Medieval Bohemia (2017), numerous research articles on medieval history and the main editor of the collective monograph The Fourth Lateran Council and the Czech Lands in 13th and 14th centuries (2020).

Jiří Macháček is a professor at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic. He specialises in medieval archaeology, archaeological methods and computer applications in archaeology. His work has been published in international journals such as the Journal of Archaeological Science, the Journal of World Prehistory, Medieval Archaeology, and the Praehistorische, as well as by publishing houses including Brill/Leiden-Boston, Habelt/Bonn and BAR Publishing/Oxford. He studied archaeology at universities in Brno, Bamberg, and Vienna. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Bamberg and a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Frankfurt am Main and Göttingen.