Reimagining Europe: an outsider looks at the medieval East/West divide / Christian Raffensperger -- The Carpathian-Danubian Region during the eighth and ninth centuries: a general view based on archaeological records / Sergiu Mustea?? -- The entry of early medieval Slavs into world history: the chronicle of Moissac / Sébastien Rossignol -- Medieval Latin Europe connecting with the rest of the world: the East Central European link / Felicitas Schmieder -- Gregory the Great and the bishops: papal letters and the ecclesiastical integration and disintegration of East Central Europe / Daniel Syrbe -- Children in eleventh- and twelfth-century Hungary and Poland: an archaeological comparison / Florin Curta and Matthew Koval -- Technologies on the road between West and East: the spread of water mills and the christianization of East Central Europe / András Vadas -- The impact of castles on the development of the local church system in Hungary in the eleventh and twelfth centuries / Mária Vargha -- The logic of tribute versus the logic of commerce: why did Dirhams reach East Central Europe during the tenth century? / Dariusz Adamczyk -- The importance of long-distance trade for the Slavic princes in the Early and High Middle Ages / Matthias Hardt -- The heyday and fate of an early trade center: graphite pottery in early "buda / Bence Péterfi -- Mining, coinage, and metal export in the thirteenth century: the Czech lands and Italy in comparative perspective / Roman Zaoral -- Late medieval Gdansk as a bridge between regions: Western European, Hanseatic, and East Central European contacts / Beata Mozejko -- A Silesian town and the Hungarian monarchy: economic contacts between Wroclaw and Hungary, ca. 1250-1500 / Grzegorz Mysliwski -- Transit trade and intercontinental trade during the Late Middle Ages: textiles and spices in the customs accounts of Bra?ov and Sibiu / Mária Pakucs-Willcocks -- Reflected in a distorted mirror: trade contacts of medieval East Central Europe in recent historiography / Balázs Nagy