This book brings together a team of scholars representing a broad range of interests and new approaches in medieval studies to explore the interactions of secular power and sacral authority in central and southeastern Europe in the period. Contributors present new research on the region's political and legal history, nobility and government institutions, war and diplomacy, literature and literacy, sacred and secular art, archaeological research, heritage studies, and much more.

Dr. Miljan Suzana, Department of Historical Research of IHSS of Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts Zagreb, Croatia.Kosana Jovanovic lectures medieval history at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia.

List of illustrationsList of contributorsAcknowledgementsForewordKosana Jovanovic — Suzana MiljanFolklore of Medieval Kings of Hungary. Preliminary Research ReportJános M. BakVariations on Nobility in Central and South-Eastern Europe. An IntroductionKatalin Szende — Ivan Jurkovic The Changes of Office of Ban of Slavonia after the Mongol Invasion in Hungary (1242-1267)Judit GálThe Reconstruction and Role of Roads in the Formation of a Medieval Cultural Landscape. The Example of Episcopal Estates of Dubrava, Ivanic and CazmaMaja Cepetic RogicFrom Castle-Warrior to Nobleman. Case Study of a Family of Slavonian Lesser NobilityÉva B. HalászLate Medieval Village in Turopolje (Slavonia). The Example of Donja LomnicaNikolina AntonicEconomic Development and Transformation of the Pauline Monasteries near Senj under the Frankapan PatronageKristian Bertovic The Society of the Noble Judges in Northeastern Hungary during the Reign of King Sigismund (1387-1437)István KádasDevelopment of Ragusan Diplomatic Service in the First Half of the Fifteenth Century. Father and Son at the Court of Duke Sandalj HranicValentina ZovkoCroatian Students at the University of Prague in the Fifteenth CenturySilvie VancurováA Contribution to Medieval Croatian Diplomatics — Cyrillic Charters of Croatian Nobility from the Franciscan Monastery on Trsat in RijekaNeven IsailovicPeter of Crkvica, a Man Who Could Be Trusted: The Career of a Middle-Ranking Cleric and Diplomat in the Kingdom of Hungary in Mid-Fifteenth CenturyTomislav MaticThe Nobility of the Despotate of Serbia between Ottoman Empire and Hungary (1457-1459)Milo¿ IvanovicIndex