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East Central and Eastern European Studies

About the Book Series

This series provides an opportunity for scholars to publish high-quality studies of East Central and Eastern Europe. It gives a comprehensive understanding of the history, culture, society, and politics of this vast area. The series welcomes monographs and edited volumes, including short form publications, on a wide range of disciplines, and encourages work on any historical period and interdisciplinary background.

Please contact the series editor:

Mihai Dragnea, University of South-Eastern Norway and President of the Balkan History Association

or Dorothea Schaefter, Publisher at Routledge ([email protected])

to submit a proposal or to find out more about the series. 

1 Series Title


From Preaching to Sword The Integration of the Slavs Beyond the Elbe into Imperium Christianum (10th–12th Centuries)

From Preaching to Sword: The Integration of the Slavs Beyond the Elbe into Imperium Christianum (10th–12th Centuries)

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Mihai Dragnea
June 29, 2026

This book examines how Christian writers portrayed the conversion of Slavs beyond the Elbe River—a complex, centuries-long process spanning the tenth through twelfth centuries. Rather than a simple narrative of religious transformation, this conversion unfolded through multiple influences, ...

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