Imagined communities

Titel: Imagined communities : constructing collective identities in medieval Europe / edited by Andrzej Pleszczyński, Joanna Sobiesiak, Michał Tomaszek, Przemysław Tyszka
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Veröffentlicht: Leiden; Boston : Brill, [2018]
Umfang: X, 395 Seiten : Illustrationen
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
Schriftenreihe/
mehrbändiges Werk:
Explorations in medieval culture ; volume 8
Schlagworte:
Andere Ausgaben: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe
ISBN: 9789004352476
  • List of Illustrations
  • p. viii
  • List of Contributors
  • p. ix
  • 1
  • Introduction
  • p. 1
  • Part 1
  • Dynasty and Power
  • 2
  • Genealogical Fictions and Chronicle Writing in Central East Europe in the 11th-13th Centuries
  • p. 15
  • 3
  • Strategies of Creating Dynastic Identity in Central Europe in the 10th-11th Centuries
  • p. 30
  • 4
  • 'Rex imperator in regno suo' - An Ideology of Frenchness? Late Medieval France, Its Political Elite and Juridical Discourse
  • p. 46
  • Part 2
  • Spirituality
  • 5
  • The King and the Saint against the Scots: The Shaping of English National Identity in the 12th Century Narrative of King Athelstan's Victory over His Northern Neighbours
  • p. 85
  • 6
  • Objects, Places, and Space in the Process of Constructing Monastic Identities: A Few Examples from the 10th, 11th and 12th Centuries
  • p. 103
  • Part 3
  • Social Condition and Gender
  • 7
  • The Law as an Element Organizing and Identifying a Community in the Narratives of the Origins of the Kingdoms of Britain, (Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia Regum Brittaniae, John of Fordun, Chronica Gentis Scottorum)
  • p. 127
  • 8
  • Creating the Past and Shaping Identity - Angevin Dynastic Legend ('Gesta consulum Andegavorum')
  • p. 144
  • 9
  • Creating Knightly Identities? Scottish Lords and Their Leaders in the Narratives about Great Moments in Community History (between John Barbour's The Bruce and Blind Hary's Wallace)
  • p. 154
  • 10
  • People and Boyars in the Old Russian Chronicles of the 11th-13th Centuries: Narrative Modelling of Social Identities
  • p. 179
  • 11
  • The Identity of Self-Governing Groups (Guilds and Communes) in the Middle Ages and Their Collective Identity
  • p. 204
  • 12
  • The Conceptualisation of Men and Women by the Authors of Penitentials
  • p. 222
  • Part 4
  • Region
  • 13
  • A Surfeit of Identity? Regional Solidarities, Welsh Identity and the Idea of Britain
  • p. 247
  • 14
  • Region as a Fluid Social Construct in Medieval Central Europe (11th-15th C.)
  • p. 279
  • 15
  • The Shaping of Post-barbarian Identity: The Example of Pomerania in the 11th-12th Century
  • p. 293
  • Part 5
  • We and the Others
  • 16
  • Kievan and Galician-Volodimir Chronicles in the 12th and 13th Centuries: The Ruthenian Ethnos and Foreign People
  • p. 305
  • 17
  • Czechs and Germans: Nationals and Foreigners in the Work of Czech Chroniclers: from Cosmas of Prague (12th Century) to the Chronicle of the So-called Dalimil (14th Century)
  • p. 322
  • 18
  • Corporative Interests Versus Nationalism: Prague University at the Turn of the 15th Century
  • p. 335
  • 19
  • The Imagined Communities of Heretics: Constructing the Identity of the Religious Enemy in the Late Middle Ages
  • p. 364
  • Index of Historical and Fictional Persons
  • p. 389