| Summary: | The lack of serious consideration of the Steppe as a central feature in historical accounts of East Central Europe (and of East Europe as well) may be rooted in the experience of violent conflicts originating from lands even further to the east, but could also be understood as grounded in a subconscious or open rejection of the unknown, strange forms of life which totally differ from the culture of settled Europeans. As such, this essay attempts a more complex examination of this problem and reveals some different aspects of the relationship, for example, the charter of warriors and guards by East Central European rulers, who, like painters and poets in modern times, might succumb to the fascination of the alterity of the Steppe.
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