F. Graus, K. Bosl, F. Seibt, M. M.Postan, A. Gieysztor, with an introduction by Geoffrey Barraclough, Eastern and Western Europe in the Middle Ages (New York, 1970) provides a general overview. For the origins see F. Dvornik, The Making of Central and Eastern Europe, 2nd edn (Gulf Breeze, Fla, 1974). Specific issues such as feudalism, capitalism, medieval economy, demography, or growth of towns are discussed by Hungarian and Polish specialists in the earlier cited volume East Central Europe in Transition.
Two studies by Marian Malowist, “The problem of inequality of economic development in Europe in the later Middle Ages,” Economic History Review, 2nd series, vol. 19, no. 1 (1966), pp. 15-28 and “Problems of the growth of the national economy of
Central Eastern Europe in the late Middle Ages,” Journal of European Economic History, vol. 3 (1974), pp. 319-57 are valuable. Most other works on socio-economic problems are in French or German, an exception being Stanislaw Russocki, ‘The parliamentary systems in 15th century Central Europe,” Poland at the 14th International Congress of Historical Sciences in San Francisco (Wroclaw, 1975), pp. 7-21.
The number of English-language studies in medieval history is rather limited. One can mention Erik Fugedi, Castle and Society in Medieval Hungary 1000-1437 (Studia Historica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, no. 187, Budapest, 1986); A. Komjathy, “Hungarian Jobbagysag in the fifteenth century,” East European Quarterly, vol. 10, no. 1 (1970), pp. 77-111; and Bela Vardy, G. Grosschmid, and L. S.Domonkos (eds), Louis the Great King of Hungary and Poland (Boulder, Colo,
1986). Works dealing with the Hussite period are more numerous. They include: Howard Kaminsky, A History of the Hussite Revolution (Berkeley, Calif., 1967); F. M.Bartos (prepared by John M. Klassen), The Hussite Revolution 1424-1437 (Boulder, Colo, 1986); F. G.Heymann, John Zizka and the Hussite Revolution (Princeton, NJ, 1955); Matthew Spinka, John Hus and the Church Reform (Hamden, Conn., 1966), and his John Hus: A Biography (Princeton, NJ, 1968). More specialized is Peter Brock, The Political and Social Doctrines of the Unity of the Czech Brethren in the fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century (The Hague, 1967). There are two books on George of Podebrady: Otakar O. Odlozilik, The Hussite King: Bohemia in European Affairs 1440-71 (New Brunswick, NJ, 1965), and F. G. Heymann, George of Bohemia: King of Heretics (Princeton, NJ, 1965).
For medieval Poland see Zygmunt Wojciechowski, Mieszko I and the Rise of the Polish State (Torun, 1936), Paul Knoll, The Rise of the Polish Monarchy: Piast Poland in East Central Europe 1320-70 (Chicago, 1972), Pawel Jasienica, Piast Poland (New York, 1985) and Oscar Halecki, Jadwiga of Anjou and the Rise of East Central Europe (Boulder, Colo, 1991).
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