Svatopluk’s Three Wands : the Collapse and Regeneration of Early Mediaeval Empires
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| Year of publication | 2019 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | Great Moravia is considered to be a controversial subject within European medieval studies. It seems to have been a transient society, which had reached a point somewhere between an advanced chiefdom and early state. However, Great Moravia dominated politically and culturally the eastern part of Central Europe in the 9th century AD. The collapse of Great Moravia it is an extraordinarily interesting example of a thriving Early Mediaeval empire, which experienced a sudden decline over a very short period of time. Its existence spanned roughly from 822, when the Moravians are mentioned for the first time in written sources, to the battle against the Hungarian nomads near Bratislava in 906/7, in which the Moravians no longer took part. It was a complex and strictly stratified society socially, with a relatively high standard of material culture. The development of Moravia can be documented by the large number of archaeological finds acquired over the more than half a century of intensive research activity. The investigation focused mainly on extensive centres with proto-urban characteristics (e.g. Pohansko near Břeclav). |
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