The Slavs in European History and Civilization

FATHER FRANCIS DVORNIK was an ordained priest born in Czechoslovakia. He studied in Paris and London before becoming a professor of Byzantine history at Harvard University.

Preface Introduction Chapter I. Europe to the Thirteenth Century Chapter II. The Last Premyslides, Bohemia, and Poland Chapter III. John of Bohemia, Emperor Louis IV, and Poland Chapter IV. Charles IV, Emperor and King of Bohemia, and Casimir the Great, King of Poland Chapter V. The Second Bulgarian Empire, the Rise of Serbia Chapter VI. The Political Organization of Medieval Slavic States Chapter VII. Slavic Medieval Cultural Achievements Chapter VIII. The Czech Reformation and Its Aftermath Chapter IX. The Russian Principalities, the Rise of Lithuania and Moscow, the Jagiellonian Federation Chapter X. The Jagiellonian Dynastic Commonwealth and the Turkish Danger Chapter XI. Poland-Lithuania and the Baltic Chapter XII. The Growth of Muscovy and Its Relations with Poland-Lithuania Chapter XIII. The Renaissance and the Slavs. Slavic Cultural Achievements in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries Chapter XIV. The Social and Political Development of the Western and Southern Slavs from the Fifteenth to the Sixteenth Century Chapter XV. The Growth of Muscovite Autocracy: Social and Political Changes in East Russia Chapter XVI. The Reformation and the Slavs Chapter XVII. The Habsburgs, Muscovy, Poland-Lithuania, and Bohemia Chapter XVIII. Poland, Muscovy's "Time of Troubles," and the Birth of the Ukraine Chapter XIX. The Muscovite State under the First Romanovs Chapter XX. Imperial Russia and the Slavic World List of Rulers Bibliographical Abbreviations Bibliography Transliteration and Pronunciation Tables Index Maps