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East Central Europe, 476–1795 AD/CE

Editors: Darius von Güttner-Sporzyński Magdalena Biniaś-Szkopek Robert Tomczak Matthew Firth
Publishing Manager: Guy Carney
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ISSN 2983-9432

Method of peer review
double-blind undertaken by an external specialist (i.c. appointed by the Board)

Keywords
politics, art, people, culture, economy, society, government, history, East Europe, Central Europe, 476–1795 AD/CE

Accepted Language(s):
English

Accepts Contributions in Open Access

ABOUT

This series publishes interdisciplinary scholarship on the history of East Central Europe. It seeks to advance understanding of the region’s social, economic, political, and cultural histories as integral to Europe’s development and as contributors to wider historical processes beyond the continent. East Central Europe is treated not only as a geographic or cultural space but as a framework for historical enquiry, offering fresh perspectives on power, society, belief, and exchange across long time spans.

The series challenges inherited models that cast East Central Europe as a periphery, frontier, or passive recipient of influence. It questions simplified accounts of cultural transmission and separation, and instead places the region within broader European and global contexts. Volumes in the series examine connections between peoples, polities, and cultures that were often close, durable, and productive, even when shaped by conflict or difference. Particular attention is given to questions of interconnection, space, and identity across shifting political and cultural boundaries.

By foregrounding the historical processes through which Europe was formed, the series rejects fixed distinctions between ‘us’ and ‘them’. It invites studies grounded in close analysis and comparison that show how societies responded to rule, belief, movement, and exchange. The series welcomes submissions that place East Central Europe at the centre of historical debate rather than at its margins.

  • EDITORIAL BOARD

    Editorial Board under the auspices of Australian Catholic University and Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań

    General Editor
    Darius von Güttner-Sporzyński, Australian Catholic University

    Assistant Editors
    Magdalena Biniaś-Szkopek, Adam Mickiewicz University
    Matthew Firth, Flinders University
    Robert T. Tomczak, Adam Mickiewicz University

    Secretary
    Dr Janet Wade, Macquarie University, Sydney

    Editorial Board
    Daniel Bagi, University of Pécs
    Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski, University College London
    Józef Dobosz, Adam Mickiewicz University
    Emilia Jamroziak, University of Leeds
    Adrian Jones, La Trobe University
    David Kalhous, Masaryk University
    Krzysztof Skwierczyński, University of Warsaw
    Talia Zajac, University of Manchester

    About the Editorial Team

    Professor Darius von Güttner-Sporzyński, FRHistS FRSA, Australian Catholic University, Canberra, is a historian of East Central Europe whose work focuses on the transmission of ideas, identity, and power across cultural and political boundaries. His publications range from the Middle Ages to the early modern and modern periods. His current research examines early modern dynastic networks and the cultural, familial, religious, and political dimensions of women’s rulership.

    Dr Matthew Firth, Flinders University, Adelaide, is a scholar of medieval history and literature. His research centres on historiography, cultural memory, and the transmission of historical narratives across the Anglo-Scandinavian world between the tenth and thirteenth centuries. His recent work includes a biographical study of tenth-century English queens, analyses of the Sagas of Icelanders, and studies of the afterlives of England’s tenth-century kings.

    Dr Robert Tomczak, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, is a historian whose research examines the circulation of ideas and intercultural education in early modern Europe. His work focuses in particular on the Grand Tour and the academic experiences of Polish students in Prague from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. His publications contribute to broader debates on educational mobility and intellectual networks in Europe.

    Professor Magdalena Biniaś-Szkopek, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, is Director of the Kórnik Library and a historian specialising in women’s history, medieval marriage, and legal culture. Her research spans twelfth-century Polish political history and the early modern cultural life of elite women. Her recent work examines matrimonial disputes before Polish consistorial courts in the Middle Ages.

    Dr Janet Wade, Macquarie University, Sydney, is a specialist in ancient maritime history. Her research focuses on seafaring deities, ritual practice, and the social worlds of sailors and merchants from the late Hellenistic period to Early Byzantium. Her publications examine the cults of figures such as Isis Pelagia and Athena, Roman road networks, and the enduring imprint of ancient travel and maritime infrastructure on later landscapes and societies.

  • AUTHOR INFORMATION

    Main Language: English

    Double-Blind undertaken by a specialist member of the Board or an external specialist

    All volumes in this series are evaluated by an Editorial Board, strictly on academic grounds, based on reports prepared by referees who have been commissioned by virtue of their specialism in the appropriate field. The Board ensures that the screening is done independently and without conflicts of interest. The definitive texts supplied by authors are also subject to review by the Board before being approved for publication

    English short references can be found at: https://www.brepols.net/permalink/stylesheet-short-refs

    Submissions should be sent to:

    Darius von Güttner-Sporzyński – darius.vonguttner@acu.edu.au

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Courtiers and Court Life in Poland, 1386–1795

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The Jagiellon Dynasty, 1386–1596

Politics, Culture, Diplomacy Darius von Güttner-Sporzyński (ed)
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Royal Jewels of Poland and Lithuania

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East Central Europe and Ireland

Political, Economic, and Social Interconnections, 1000–1850 Robert Tomczak, Adam Andrzej Kucharski
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The Church and Cistercians in Medieval Poland

Foundations, Documents, People Józef Dobosz
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