The volume “Wallachian Mobility and Settlement along the Carpathian Arc“, edited by Mihai Dragnea, Miloš Marek, Grzegorz Jawor, John Polemikos, and published by Routledge, discusses various aspects of the Wallachian mobility and settlement along the Carpathian Arc between the 14th and 18th centuries. It reflects a fundamental drive to enhance daily life by migrating to new territories. The Wallachian features not only shaped their own existence but also left a lasting impact on the regions they inhabited along the Carpathian Arc. Through their migration they not only became part of a larger narrative of human resilience and adaptability but also reflect humanity’s drive for better opportunity. The volume, which is a project initiated by the Balkan History Association, brings together the research from multinational scholars of various academic disciplines. Three editors (Mihai Dragnea, Miloš Marek, John Polemikos) are members of the association.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements, Mihai Dragnea
Introduction: Current research, debates and controversies surrounding Wallachian mobility and settlement, Mihai Dragnea, Miloš Marek, and Grzegorz Jawor
Theodore Skoutariotes’ Synopsis Chronike: a neglected source for the history of the Vlachs (12th-13th centuries), Anna Kotłowska
The Romanian Consuetudinary Law (Ius Valachicum). A Comparative Perspective and a Few Sources (14th-18th Centuries), Ela Cosma
Wallachian colonization and its traces in the toponymy of Slovakia (14th-18th centuries), Miloš Marek
Wallachian Colonization and its Impact on the Landscape: A Case Study of Central Slovakia in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period, Oto Tomeček
Speaking to the Morlachs: A discussion of the language, state agents and mechanisms involved in communicating with the Morlachs in 16th-century Venetian Dalmatia, Dana Caciur-Andreescu
On the Heritage of Carpathian Settlers in Eastern Moravia: Early Modern Linguistic Borrowings into the Wallachian Dialect, Marta Šimečková and Vít Boček
The Image of Highlanders in the Czech Republic: The Disputed Land and History of Moravian Wallachia (17th-18th centuries), Petra Košťálová
Economic activity of the hereditary subject classes in southeastern Moravia in the shadow of the military conflicts of the 17th and early 18th centuries, Petr Odehnal
Historical Anoikonyms and Oikonyms in Relation to Wallachian Colonization of Halenkov from 17th to 19th centuries (Moravian Wallachia), Ivana Spitzer Ostřanská
