Nikolov, Alexandar (2024) Great Moravia: The Uneasy Beginnings of Slavic Christendom. In: Mass Conversions to Christianity and Islam, 800–1100. Palgrave Macmillan Cham, pp. 113-135.
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The transition between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages was marked by several massive changes in the life of the Europeans and the peoples around the Mediterranean. It was the “decline and fall” of the Roman Empire, replaced in the West by the Germanic “Barbarian” Kingdoms and by the Eastern Roman Empire in the East, known also by a terminus technicus as Byzantium, the medieval continuation of the Roman tradition. From a persecuted sect, Christians became the dominant religion in the former Roman territories. Byzantium, since the time of Justinian the Great (527–565), had emerged as the stronghold of the Nicaean Orthodoxy, while the Papacy held the religious and cultural unity of the former Roman West, slowly absorbing the Germanic Arians and the remnants of the Pagans in its sway. Constantinople and Rome, in spite of their controversies on dogmatic or administrative issues, continued the spread of Christianity not only in the former Roman provinces but also in the moving “Barbarian” periphery. After the rapid disappearance of the Hunnic Empire, following the death of Attila in 453, Eastern and Central Europe met a new wave of migrants, the Slavs. These numerous tribes, speaking closely related dialects and very vaguely known to the authors of Antiquity until the end of the fifth century, became an important element of the demographic structure of East-Central, South-eastern and Eastern Europe. Perhaps Jordanes was the first historian to also describe their three main branches: “Sclaveni” in the former provinces of Pannonia and Dacia, “Veneti” in the territories of modern Poland, Bohemia, Slovakia and Eastern Germany, and “Antae” in the future territories of Kievan Rus’.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Byzantium, Nicaean Orthodoxy, Poland, Bohemia, Slovakia, Eastern Germany, Kievan Rus |
| Subjects: | A Church/mission history G Christian traditions/Denominations > Eastern Orthodox G Christian traditions/Denominations > Roman Catholic |
| Divisions: | Central Europe > Czech Republic |
| Depositing User: | Katharina Penner |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Apr 2026 16:47 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Apr 2026 16:47 |
| URI: | https://ceamol.osims.org/id/eprint/3256 |
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