The time around the turn of the first millennium is commonly seen as marking the beginning of art history in Eastern Central Europe. New principalities and the adoption of Christianity gave rise to new impulses to architecture and the arts. Volume one of the “Handbook of the History of Art in Eastern Central Europe” examines the prerequisites of and precursors to this epochal change, including Late-Antiquity and early Medieval churches in the eastern Adriatic, golden treasures from the Migration Period, jewelry of the Great Moravian Empire, and everyday culture of the Slavic peoples.