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Christianity and War in Medieval East-Central Europe and Scandinavia

Author : Radoslaw Kotecki
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781641891332
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (913 download)

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Book Synopsis Christianity and War in Medieval East-Central Europe and Scandinavia by : Radoslaw Kotecki

Download or read book Christianity and War in Medieval East-Central Europe and Scandinavia written by Radoslaw Kotecki and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, a diverse selection of medieval historians investigate the intersection between religion, culture, and warfare in territories that were only integrated into Christendom in the High Middle Ages. The contributors analyse cultures that lay outside Charlemagne's limes and the frontiers of the Byzantine Empire, to consider a region stretching from the Balkans to the south, through Hungary and the Slavic lands (Poland, Bohemia, Rus), to the Baltic coastline with Polabia, Pomerania, Prussia, and Estonia, and reaching into Scandinavia.

Religious Rites of War beyond the Medieval West

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004686371
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Religious Rites of War beyond the Medieval West written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Volume Two of a two-volume collection that brings together contributions from cultural and military history to offer an examination of religious rites employed in connection with warfare as well as their transformative and power- and identity-building potential across political communities of medieval Northern, Central, and Eastern Europe. Covering the period ca. 900 and 1500, the work takes theoretical, textual and practical approaches to the research on religious warfare, and investigates the connections between, and significance and function of crucial war rituals such as pre-, intra- and postbellum rites, as well as various activities surrounding the military life of individuals, polities, and corporates. Contributors are Robert Antonín, Robert Bubczyk, Dariusz Dąbrowski, Jesse Harrington, Carsten Selch Jensen, Sini Kangas, Radosław Kotecki, Gregory Leighton, Kyle C. Lincoln, Jacek Maciejewski, Yulia Mikhailova, Max Naderer, László Veszprémy, and Dušan Zupka.

The Routledge Handbook of East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500-1300

Author : Florin Curta
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000476243
Total Pages : 886 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Book Synopsis The Routledge Handbook of East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500-1300 by : Florin Curta

Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500-1300 written by Florin Curta and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500–1300 is the first of its kind to provide a point of reference for the history of the whole of Eastern Europe during the Middle Ages. While historians have recognized the importance of integrating the eastern part of the European continent into surveys of the Middle Ages, few have actually paid attention to the region, its specific features, problems of chronology and historiography. This vast region represents more than two-thirds of the European continent, but its history in general—and its medieval history in particular—is poorly known. This book covers the history of the whole region, from the Balkans to the Carpathian Basin, and the Bohemian Forest to the Finnish Bay. It provides an overview of the current state of research and a route map for navigating an abundant historiography available in more than ten different languages. Chapters cover topics as diverse as religion, architecture, art, state formation, migration, law, trade and the experiences of women and children. This book is an essential reference for scholars and students of medieval history, as well as those interested in the history of Central and Eastern Europe.

Baltic Crusades and Societal Innovation in Medieval Livonia, 1200-1350

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004512098
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Baltic Crusades and Societal Innovation in Medieval Livonia, 1200-1350 written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-07-25 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The societies of the lands around the Baltic Sea underwent remarkable changes in the thirteenth century. This book examines aspects of these religious, economical, societal, and institutional innovations, such as the adaption of the Christianity, emergence of urban life, and the development of economic resources.

Medieval Eastern Europe, 500–1300

Author : Florin Curta
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 148754491X
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Book Synopsis Medieval Eastern Europe, 500–1300 by : Florin Curta

Download or read book Medieval Eastern Europe, 500–1300 written by Florin Curta and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2024-01-31 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filling a major gap in medieval studies, Medieval Eastern Europe is the first collection of primary sources in English translation covering the history of the whole eastern region of the European continent between 500 and 1300. Florin Curta, a leading scholar of medieval eastern Europe, gathers sources from a geographic area ranging from the Czech lands in the west to the Ural Mountains in the east, and from northern Russia to Greece. Curta begins with a discussion of why this region has been relatively ignored. His collection includes traditional narrative sources, such as chronicles and annals, as well as treaties, charters, letters, and legal texts. Each primary source is preceded by a brief introduction and followed by guiding questions. Organized chronologically into thematic chapters, the selections touch upon a wide variety of topics, including political developments; conversion to Christianity, Islam, and Judaism; economic and social issues; literature; laws; religious beliefs and practices; and much more.

Reimagining Europe

Author : Christian Raffensperger
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674065468
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Reimagining Europe written by Christian Raffensperger and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Main description: An overriding assumption has long directed scholarship in both European and Slavic history: that Kievan Rus' in the tenth through twelfth centuries was part of a Byzantine commonwealth separate from Europe. Christian Raffensperger refutes this conception and offers a new frame for two hundred years of history, one in which Rus' is understood as part of medieval Europe and East is not so neatly divided from West. With the aid of Latin sources, the author brings to light the considerable political, religious, marital, and economic ties among European kingdoms, including Rus', restoring a historical record rendered blank by Rusianmonastic chroniclers as well as modern scholars ideologically motivated to build barriers between East and West. Further, Raffensperger revises the concept of a Byzantine Commonwealth that stood in opposition to Europe-and under which Rus' was subsumed-toward that of a Byzantine Ideal esteemed and emulated by all the states of Europe. In this new context, appropriation of Byzantine customs, law, coinage, art, and architecture in both Rus' and Europe can be understood as an attempt to gain legitimacy and prestige by association with the surviving remnant of the Roman Empire. Reimagining Europe initiates an expansion of history that is sure to challenge ideas of Russian exceptionalism and influence the course of European medieval studies.

Millennium

Author : Tom Holland
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0748131043
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Millennium written by Tom Holland and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-04-21 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling historian and broadcaster Tom Holland gives a thrilling panoramic account of the birth of the new Western Europe in the year 1000 'An exhilarating sweep across European history either side of the year 1000; riveting' ALLAN MASSIE, SPECTATOR 'I relished the blood and thunder narrative - the work of a great storyteller at his best' DOMINIC SANDBROOK, EVENING STANDARD 'A splendid, highly coloured canvas' NORMAN STONE, GUARDIAN In AD 900, few would have guessed that the splintering kingdoms of Europe were candidates for future greatness. Hemmed in by implacable enemies and an ocean, there were many who feared that they were nearing the time when the Antichrist would appear, heralding the world's end. Instead there emerged a new civilisation. It was the age of Otto the Great and William the Conqueror, of Viking sea-kings, of hermits, monks and serfs. It witnessed the spread of castles, the invention of knighthood, and the founding of the papal monarchy. It was a momentous achievement: for this was nothing less than the founding of the modern West.

Christianization and the Rise of Christian Monarchy

Author : Nora Berend
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139468367
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Book Synopsis Christianization and the Rise of Christian Monarchy by : Nora Berend

Download or read book Christianization and the Rise of Christian Monarchy written by Nora Berend and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-11-22 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2007 text is a comparative, analysis of one of the most fundamental stages in the formation of Europe. Leading scholars explore the role of the spread of Christianity and the formation of new principalities in the birth of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Bohemia, Hungary, Poland and Rus' around the year 1000. Drawing on history, archaeology and art history, and emphasizing problems related to the sources and historiographical debates, they demonstrate the complex interdependence between the processes of religious and political change, covering conditions prior to the introduction of Christianity, the adoption of Christianity, and the development of the rulers' power. Regional patterns emerge, highlighting both the similarities in ruler-sponsored cases of Christianization, and differences in the consolidation of power and in institutions introduced by Christianity. The essays reveal how local societies adopted Christianity; medieval ideas of what constituted the dividing line between Christians and non-Christians; and the connections between Christianity and power.

Rulers and Rulership in the Arc of Medieval Europe, 1000-1200

Author : Christian Raffensperger
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000921670
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Book Synopsis Rulers and Rulership in the Arc of Medieval Europe, 1000-1200 by : Christian Raffensperger

Download or read book Rulers and Rulership in the Arc of Medieval Europe, 1000-1200 written by Christian Raffensperger and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-24 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rulers and Rulership in the Arc of Medieval Europe challenges the dominant paradigm of what rulership is and who rulers are by decentering the narrative and providing a broad swath of examples from throughout medieval Europe. Within that territory, the prevalent idea of monarchy and kingship is overturned in favor of a broad definition of rulership. This book will demonstrate to the reader that the way in which medieval Europe has been constructed in both the popular and scholarly imaginations is incorrect. Instead of a king we have multiple rulers, male and female, ruling concurrently. Instead of an independent church or a church striving for supremacy under the Gregorian Reform, we have a pope and ecclesiastical leaders making deals with secular rulers and an in-depth interconnection between the two. Finally, instead of a strong centralizing polity growing into statehood we see weak rulers working hand in glove with weak subordinates to make the polity as a whole function. Medievalists, Byzantinists, and Slavists typically operate in isolation from one another. They do not read each other’s books, or engage with each other’s work. This book requires engagement from all of them to point out that the medieval Europe that they work in is one and the same and demands collaboration to best understand it.

Continuation or Change? Borders and Frontiers in Late Antiquity and Medieval Europe

Author : Gregory Leighton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000645924
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Book Synopsis Continuation or Change? Borders and Frontiers in Late Antiquity and Medieval Europe by : Gregory Leighton

Download or read book Continuation or Change? Borders and Frontiers in Late Antiquity and Medieval Europe written by Gregory Leighton and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-19 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines interdisciplinary boundaries and includes texts focusing on material culture, philological analysis, and historical research. What they all have in common are zones that lie in between, treated not as mere barriers but also as places of exchange in the early Middle Ages. Focusing on borderlands, Continuation or Change uncovers the changing political and military organisations at the time and the significance of the functioning of former borderland areas. The chapters answer how the fiscal and military apparatus were organised, identify the turning points in the division of dynastic power, and assign meaning to the assimilation of certain symbolic and ideological elements of the imperial tradition. Finally, the authors offer answers to what exactly a "statehood without a state" was in regard to semi-peripheral and peripheral areas that were also perceived through the prism of the idea of a world system, network theory, or the concept of so-called negotiating borderlands. Continuation or Change is a useful resource for upper-level undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars interested in medieval warfare, Eastern European history, medieval border regions, and cross-cultural interaction.

Rulership in Medieval East Central Europe

Author : Grischa Vercamer
Publisher : East Central and Eastern Europ
ISBN 13 : 9789004499805
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Rulership in Medieval East Central Europe written by Grischa Vercamer and published by East Central and Eastern Europ. This book was released on 2021-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 19 substantial chapters provide the first overview of research on rulership in theory and practice, with a particular emphasis on monarchies of Bohemia, Hungary and Poland in the High and Late Middle Ages.

Conflict, Bargaining, and Kinship Networks in Medieval Eastern Europe

Author : Christian Raffensperger
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 149856853X
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Conflict, Bargaining, and Kinship Networks in Medieval Eastern Europe written by Christian Raffensperger and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2018-04-26 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conflict, Bargaining, and Kinship Networks in Medieval Eastern Europe takes the familiar view of Eastern Europe, families, and conflicts and stands it on its head. Instead of a world rife with civil war and killing, this book presents a relatively structured environment where conflict is engaged in for the purposes of advancing one’s position, and where death among the royal families is relatively rare. At the heart of this analysis is the use of situational kinship networks—relationships created by elites for the purposes of engaging in conflict with their own kin, but only for the duration of a particular conflict. A new image of medieval Eastern Europe, less consumed by civil war and mass death, will change the perception of medieval Eastern Europe in the minds of readers. This new perception is essential to not only present the past more accurately, but also to allow for medieval Eastern Europe’s integration into the larger medieval world as something other than an aberrant other.

Doing Memory: Medieval Saints and Heroes and Their Afterlives in the Baltic Sea Region (19th–20th centuries)

Author : Cordelia Heß, Gustavs Strenga
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311135122X
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book Doing Memory: Medieval Saints and Heroes and Their Afterlives in the Baltic Sea Region (19th–20th centuries) written by Cordelia Heß, Gustavs Strenga and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Nordic Elites in Transformation, c. 1050–1250, Volume III

Author : Wojtek Jezierski
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000200116
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis Nordic Elites in Transformation, c. 1050–1250, Volume III by : Wojtek Jezierski

Download or read book Nordic Elites in Transformation, c. 1050–1250, Volume III written by Wojtek Jezierski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the practical and symbolic resources of legitimacy which the elites of medieval Scandinavia employed to establish, justify, and reproduce their social and political standing between the end of the Viking Age and the rise of kingdoms in the thirteenth century. Geographically the chapters cover the Scandinavian realms and Free State Iceland. Thematically the authors cover a wide palette of cultural practices and historical sources: hagiography, historiography, spaces and palaces, literature, and international connections, which rulers, magnates or ecclesiastics used to compete for status and to reserve haloing glory for themselves. The volume is divided in three sections. The first looks at the sacral, legal, and acclamatory means through which privilege was conferred onto kings and ruling families. Section Two explores the spaces such as aristocratic halls, palaces, churches in which the social elevation of elites took place. Section Three explores the traditional and novel means of domestic distinction and international cultural capital which different orders of elites – knights, powerful clerics, ruling families etc. – wrought to assure their dominance and set themselves apart vis-à-vis their peers and subjects. A concluding chapter discusses how the use of symbolic capital in the North compared to wider European contexts.

The Rise and Fall of the Danish Empire

Author : Michael Bregnsbo
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030914410
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book The Rise and Fall of the Danish Empire written by Michael Bregnsbo and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the Danish Empire, which for over four hundred years stretched from Northern Norway to Hamburg and was feared by small German principalities to the South. Evolving over time, it has included most of Scandinavia and the North Atlantic, has shifted from a Western orientation under the Vikings to an Eastern one in the Middle Ages, and from a North Sea Empire to a Baltic Empire. From the seventeenth to the early twentieth century, it comprised small overseas colonies in India, Africa and the Caribbean. Exploring the rise and fall of Denmark's Kingdom, from 9 AD to the present, this textbook considers how such vast empires were kept together through ideology and symbols, military force, transport systems and networks of civil servants. The authors demonstrate how the lands under Danish rule included a variety of religious groups, social and economic structures, law systems, and ethnic and linguistic groups. They also consider the economic and ideological benefit of an empire structure in comparison to a nation state. Providing a detailed overview of the long history of the Danish Empire, whilst also confronting current debate and providing novel interpretations, this book offers an original, imperial and multi-territorial perspective on the history of the Danish state, providing essential reading for students of Danish or Scandinavian history and European or Global empires.

Laywomen and the Crusade in England, 1150-1300

Author : DR GORDON M. REYNOLDS
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1837652244
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (376 download)

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Download or read book Laywomen and the Crusade in England, 1150-1300 written by DR GORDON M. REYNOLDS and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2024-11-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers how elite women could participate in Crusade, their means and motivations. The popular perception of the medieval Crusades is of conflicts spanning from the Holy Land to the Baltic, with huge armies of religious zealots led by knights wearing crosses. However, the reality is far more nuanced. The vast majority of those living in western Europe did not go on crusade at all. But that does not mean that crusading was not on their minds, or that they could not influence the movement. They urged others to take up the cross, provided financial support, and prayed for the campaigns in the Holy Land; for them, this was crusade. This book investigates how English laywomen were encouraged to support crusades and identify with holy war during the Middle Ages, challenging preconceptions of what crusade "meant", and bringing out the diverse ways of their participation. It draws on detailed analysis of cartularies, judicial records, chronicles and lyrical sources; it also examines the rich material culture of commemoration that celebrated the endeavour, alongside the papal propaganda which idealised women's sponsorship of crusade. This study therefore sheds new light not only on the role of women in crusade, but on their influence and piety more generally.

Handbook to Life in the Medieval World, 3-Volume Set

Author : Madeleine Pelner Cosman
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438109075
Total Pages : 987 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Handbook to Life in the Medieval World, 3-Volume Set written by Madeleine Pelner Cosman and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 987 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capturing the essence of life in great civilizations of the past, each volume in the