L’anatomie d’une compétition médiévale. L’intégration des nations d’Europe centrale-orientale dans le monde chrétien
The anatomy of a medieval competition. The integration of the nations of Central-Eastern Europe in the Christian world

Summary/Abstract: The chronological interval at the end of which the ethnic, confessional and institutional crucible of the borders of the ancient Orbis Romanus is replaced by a group of powerful states, ruled by sovereigns legitimized by an ecclesiastical hierarchy consecrated by the Holy See, or by the ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople,is probably the most spectacular sequence of the profound changes that have occurred in the history of Europe during the Middle Ages. Integration did not occur by military conquest and the loss of political individuality, but by collaboration with the Holy See and the Empire, and taking advantage of their dissensions. When circumstances were favorable, the new Christianity served to affirm the ethnic consciousness of the new sons of the universal Church, hence the idea of the founders of the faith and of the country, assumed as the foundation of national pride in the Czech, Polish, Hungarian and Romanian regions.

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