![]() ![]() Yet despite these complaints, it's a sweeping, accurate, well-researched, and very comprehensive treatment of overall western Slavic history up into the early modern period. The style of writing is also not the best at making the book flow in an even and pleasing manner for a single-author volume it simply feels a bit choppy in places. All of this, plus typesetting that is just decent and certainly not the best, makes the book in places difficult going even for those who read a lot of historical scholarship. He is also so sure-footed in his command of the material you nearly have to take notes to keep this king and that nation, or this other court and that prince straight: once the good professor introduces a person, place, or concept he won't explain it again and yet it may be referenced fifty pages down the line in passing. The scope of time and geography Dvornik covers is astounding, as is his astute knowledge of Slavic history, however his writing can be a bit dry at times-this is a volume that is, and has always been, aimed mainly at an academic readership. ![]() Professor Dvornik's book, first published in the 1960s, has remained in print because it is simply the best overview of Slavic history from the middle ages into the early modern period. ![]()
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