Balázs Nagy, Felicitas Schmieder, and András Vadas, Introduction Part One: East Central Europe – No Man’s Land or Historical Region? 1. Christian Raffensperger, Reimagining Europe: An Outsider Looks at the Medieval East–West Divide 2. Sergiu Mustea?a, The Carpathian-Danubian Region during the Eighth and Ninth Centuries: A General View Based on Archaeological Records 3. Sébastien Rossignol, The Entry of Early Medieval Slavs into World History: the Chronicle of Moissac 4. Felicitas Schmieder, Medieval Latin Europe Connecting with the Rest of the World: The East Central European Link Part Two: Christianization and the East-West link 5. Daniel Syrbe, Gregory the Great and the Bishops. Papal Letters and the Ecclesiastical Integration and Disintegration of East Central Europe 6. Florin Curta and Matthew Koval, Children in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Hungary and Poland: an Archaeological Comparison 7. András Vadas, Technologies on the Road between West and East. The Spread of Water Mills and the Christianization of East Central Europe 8. Mária Vargha, The Impact of Castles on the Development of the Local Church System in Hungary in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries Part Three: Trade relations of East Central Europe in the age of state formation 9. Dariusz Adamczyk, The Logic of Tribute versus the Logic of Commerce: Why Did Dirhams Reach East Central Europe during the Tenth Century? 10. Matthias Hardt, The Importance of Long-Distance Trade for the Slavic Princes in the Early and High Middle Ages 11. Bence Péterfi, The Heyday and Fate of an Early Trade Center: Graphite Pottery in Early Óbuda Part Four: Trade relations of East Central Europe in the late medieval period 12. Roman Zaoral, Mining, Coinage, and Metal Export in the Thirteenth Century: the Czech Lands and Italy in Comparative Perspective 13. Beata Mozejko, Late Medieval Gdansk as a Bridge between Regions: Western European, Hanseatic, and East Central European Contacts 14. Grzegorz Mysliwski, A Silesian Town and the Hungarian Monarchy. Economic Contacts between Wroclaw and Hungary, ca. 1250–1500 15. Mária Pakucs-Willcocks, Transit Trade and Intercontinental Trade during the Late Middle Ages: Textiles and Spices in the Customs Accounts of Bra?ov and Sibiu 16. Balázs Nagy, Reflected in a Distorted Mirror: Trade Contacts of Medieval East Central Europe in Recent Historiography