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Linguistic and Cultural Dynamics in a Frontier Society

New Perspectives on Northeastern Bavaria and Western Bohemia in the Early Middle Ages. Edited by Jadranka Gvozdanović, Tomáš Klír and Nicolas Mark Jansens.

By synthesizing new data and offering novel analyses of the early medieval landscape in a region of shifting political and cultural boundaries, this volume traces how and when interactions developed among socially distinct groups across 'Bavaria Slavica' and Western Bohemia. Historical-linguistic analyses of Germanic and Slavic place names and lexical material are brought into dialogue with evidence for settlement processes - including new radiocarbon dating of Carolingian-Ottonian grave sites - within a shared geographic framework through GIS-based spatial analysis. Individual chapters address toponymy, historical-linguistic interpretation, and material culture, complemented by a Slavic lexicon reconstructed from the toponymic record of 'Bavaria Slavica'. Taken together, these studies provide an integrated basis for analyzing settlement and contact processes and offer a methodological template applicable to the investigation of frontier zones in other regions and periods. With contributions by Tomáš Klír, Nicolas M. Jansens, Jadranka Gvozdanović, Viktorie Janovská, Jiří Rejzek, Petr Trávníček and Harald Bichlmeier. 422 Seiten mit 13 Farb- und 12 s/w-Abb., gebunden (Empirie und Theorie der Sprachwissenschaft; Vol. 9/Universitätsverlag Winter 2026)