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Imagined communities : constructing collective identities in medieval Europe / edited by Andrzej Pleszczyński, Joanna Sobiesiak, Michal Tomaszek, Przemysław Tyszka.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Explorations in medieval culture ; 8.
- Explorations in Medieval Culture ; 8
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civilization, Medieval.
- Social history--Medieval, 500-1500.
- Social history.
- Social history--Medieval.
- Group identity.
- Europe--Civilization.
- Europe.
- Civilization.
- Physical Description:
- 395 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston, MA : Brill, [2018]
- Summary:
- "Imagined Communities: Constructing Collective Identities in Medieval Europe offers a series of studies focusing on the problems of conceptualisation of social group identities, including national, royal, aristocratic, regional, urban, religious, and gendered communities. The geographical focus of the case studies presented in this volume range from Wales and Scotland, to Hungary and Ruthenia, while both narrative and other types of evidence, such as legal texts, are drawn upon. What emerges is how the characteristics and aspirations of communities are exemplified and legitimised through the presentation of the past and an imagined picture of present. By means of its multiple perspectives, this volume offers significant insight into the medieval dynamics of collective mentality and group consciousness"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Genealogical fictions and chronicle writing in central East Europe in the 11th-13th centuries / Daniel Bagi
- Strategies of creating dynastic identity in Central Europe in the 10th-12th centuries / Zbigniew Dalewski
- 'Rex imperator in Regno Suo'
- an ideology of Frenchness? Late medieval France, its political elite and juridical discourse / Georg Jostkleigrewe
- 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 / Tomasz Tarczynski
- Objects, places, and space in the process of constructing monastic identities : a few examples from the 10th, 11th and 12th centuries / Michal Tomaszek
- 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) / Bartosz Klusek
- Creating the past and shaping identity : Angevin dynastic legend ('Gesta consulum andegavorum') / Karol Szejgiec
- 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) / Wojciech Michalski
- People and boyars in the old Russian chronicles of the 11th-13th centuries : narrative modelling of social identities / Tatiana Vilkul
- The identity of self-governing groups (guilds and communes) in the middle ages and their collective identity / Andrzej Pleszczynski
- The conceptualisation of men and women by the authors of penitentials / Przemyslaw Tyszka
- A surfeit of identity? Regional solidarities, Welsh identity and the idea of Britain / Euryn Rhys Roberts
- Region as a fluid social construct in medieval Central Europe (11th-15th c.) / Przemyslaw Wiszewski
- The shaping of post-Barbarian identity : the example of Pomerania in the 11th-12th century / Stanislaw Rosik
- Kievan and Galician-Volodimir chronicles in the 12th and 13th centuries : the Ruthenian ethnos and foreign people / Mariusz Bartnicki
- 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) / Joanna Sobiesiak
- Corporative interests versus nationalism : Prague University at the turn of the 15th century / Martin Nodl
- The imagined communities of heretics : constructing the identity of the religious enemy in the late middle ages / Pawel Kras.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Imagined communities
- ISBN:
- 9789004352476
- 9004352473
- OCLC:
- 1042078957
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